Today's inspiration is the word Quarantine.
Forlornly I stared out of the window. This was excruciatingly boring. Day by day passed by but all we could do was watch the outside world go by. At least we had the world outside to watch. And long for.
After all we had travelled so far, and yet we might have travelled another million miles for all the good it had done us.
Quarantined, they told us. We had to be quarantined for the safety of the planet. The planet that we had come to be settlers on. A thousand years in cryosleep had not been enough. Apparently it just let the bugs sleep as well. The first new waves of settlers had resulted in massive deaths among the native population.
So here we all were, locked up in a glass dome of sterile white furniture. Watching. Waiting.
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