Daily Prompt: Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.

“Oh! That time, remember Fintz, that time we were stuck in that escape pod together.

Boy-o! We were skimming over one of those Delta clusters, where the old Admiralty scuttled their ships.”

Anyway we cut too close around the end thrusters of a 3 kilometer cargo only to get sucked into the blast cavern on its underside.”

Their burnt grav servers pulled us in a negative wave and our little scav shuttle couldn’t hold up to that much torque.”

Phew, Fintz and I scrambled that day and it was close quarters, want it Fintz?“

Fintz nodded, then turned away, blushing.

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