Leaving Hope Chapter 10–ln which Anya finds a Wash-n-Wear place, and Sarka sends Borsk on a rescue mission.

Anya’s a rich kid, and as such, there are certain things she’s never done. Using a public shower and laundry is one of them.

Now, I’m not from a society that has public showers, but I know first-hand the strangeness of trying to navigate a laundromat for the very first time. Or trying to figure out how to ride a public bus the first time. I get that it’s not hard. But everyone else seems to know each other and know that they’re doing. As with many new experiences, it’s easy to feel stupid. So, you peek out of the corners of your eyes, hoping to catch on before you’re exposed as an interloper.

Or maybe I’m just oversensitive to such things. How about you? Have you ever been in a new environment (for whatever reason) where you felt like an idiot while everyone else knew what was going on? How did you handle it?

Leaving Hope Chapter 10 is part of the Leaving Hope Read-Along challenge. Comment on this post to join the conversation–and to increase your chances of winning a copy of the next book in the series (StarRacer).