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It’s been a couple of days in the aircraft.
The time spent here so far has been pretty pleasant if he had to say so himself. A bunch of connecting of electric wires. Communicating with a few of the other astronauts. As the brunette tried his best to be as comfortable as he could on the spaceship.
Sykkuno carefully swiped the card against the scanner as gently as his shaky hands would allow him. His mouth tugged down in a frown as he heard the incorrect beep filtering through the machine. He sighed as he adjusted his helmet before putting the card back into it’s respective, neat holder.
The young male heard a few thumps of footsteps before noticing the inky crew member walking towards him. Sykkuno bowed his head down slightly as he waved and softly spoke, “Hello mister Corpse.” A small smile tugged at the taller man’s lips whilst waving back. “Don’t bother with bowing, you’re older than me anyway.”
The brunette tipped his head up and gazed at Corpse’s pitch black irises. “Sorry, I can’t recall telling you that.” Sykkuno says tilting his head as he glances at the wall, confused. “Oh yeah, Rachel told me about your age. You’re 26 right? I’m 22.” The deep voiced man chuckled as the brunette lets out a prolonged ‘ohh’ sound in understanding.
He had told Rae that after all. They were chatting during their lunch break as they stuffed their faces with artificial tasting sandwiches and small warm pizza slices. Mindless chatter went back and forth between them as they discussed random topics which peered into their minds. Rae was really nice to talk to indeed. The brunette looked down at his shaky hands, he must’ve been feeling at least a little weird. He looked back up at Corpse’s black helmet before saying, “I should probably go now, my hands are shaking and I can’t seem to get the card swipe thingy right.” Sykkuno said as he smiled ever so slightly whilst fidgeting with his leaf coloured gloves. Corpse responded politely with, “Oh of course, go ahead. You should probably like take a nap or some shit if you’re shaking. I’ll see you then Sykkuno.”
The raven said before smiling warmly at him and patting him on the top of his metallic like helmet. He watched as the ink coloured crew-mate strided towards the card swiper. Smiling back happily, Sykkuno waltzed out of the admin room and stepped towards the medbay once again.
He didn’t lay down this time, he would be back to normal sooner than later anyway. His fingers had a tendency to shake constantly as he had a condition known as essential tremor which makes any part of his body shake when doing simple tasks, it mostly happens in the hands and he has gotten used to it.
The condition started when he was around ten, passed down from his mom’s sister who had also gotten diagnosed with it in her childhood. There’s no known cure for it so he uses fidget toys like stress-balls when it occurs. It hadn’t been part of his own personal baggage because it was for a medical condition so it was handled by the company.
I squished the stress ball as I breathed lightly, my heartbeat quickening as I tried to calm everything down. I heard a soft squeak of a door as I looked at the medbay’s entrance. There stood Toast as he gazed at me with curiosity. “What’re you doing, Sykkuno?”
I replied nervously, “Oh hey Toast! It’s just a little complicated and I don’t want to explain it right now.. So, how are you?” I asked while shoving the squishy ball back into my bag. The cyan astronaut seemed to be slightly conflicted before nodding,
“Sure, why not.”