Chapter 6
We’d done it – we’d escaped Sector D. I had no idea what lay ahead but to be a true Otherlander, to be someone in a foreign sector, was a great feeling. I was excited beyond words. Was their culture very different from ours? Did they look different to us? Sestra didn’t look too different, but she had Croatian heritage. We had an ancestral connection. Was the environment different to ours? I knew the weather was different – that went without saying – but did it make that much difference to their lives?
I couldn’t stop looking up. It seemed so strange to me that the clouds were so far away. In Sector D we lived inside the clouds but here the Shoovers could see empty space between the ground and the sky.
That was it. It hadn’t occurred to me before, but we had no sky in Sector D;
