Lohan stepped out of the shower stall enveloped in a cloud of thick steam, drying his black hair with the softest cotton towel he had ever used in his life.
Although the Digestive Filter allowed him to cleanse impurities from his skin and sweat through his pores, making the act of washing technically unnecessary, Lohan couldn't resist the psychological pleasure of a hot shower.
In the small apartment in the Lower Zone, the water coming out of the pipes was a cold, foul-smelling mixture laden with metallic sediments... for the ordinary people living there, a bath was a rationed luxury, taken only once every two weeks in cases of real need to save credits and avoid skin infections.
This was one of the main reasons people from the Upper Zone called those from the Lower Zone "rats," since the smell of many people there wasn't very pleasant.
