The human always wears a livesuit, or at least a protective head covering with full face mask when around havenworlders. Even when other humans were not. When asked, the human would sigh, sadly, and say, I'm allergic to everyone. -- Lessons
Some people should never go to space. Some people go anyway. I mean, who wouldn't right? Space is where all the cool stuff is. All the interesting people and fun places to see.
Hi. I'm Human Vaun, and I'm allergic to like ninety-eight percent of all cogniscent life in the universe.
I'm okay so long as my nose has a filter over it. It looks weird to loads of people, but a bean has to eat, right? I can't spend all of my life in a livesuit. It gets stinky in there.
If all I need is a nose mask, that's what I'm going to go with when I want to be comfortable. If it's ridiculous and it works, then it's not that ridiculous.
I've been working on a flesh-tone one. It's not great. The end effect is like I had a cosmetic surgery mishap.
But that's not what won the day.
As a Ship's Human, it's my job to protect the crew with whatever I have. Up to and including my life. Not that it's come to that, but yeah. My little lizards are worth it. I'd rather be alive all the same.
Where was I? Oh yeah.
So there were these pirates, right? They timed the attack so that most of the ship and me were asleep. So I was woken up at flakk-off in the morning. Just the Skins and the nose filter.
Half asleep. Next to naked. Facing off a bunch of roughs who thought they were too cool for Livesuits.
So I pulled off my filter and flakkin' sneezed on them.
Trip-hammer, nonstop, flying dang fluids atomised all around me.
They surrendered before my Companion, Niek, got herself into gear to help me put the filter back on. And it still took me half an hour to get my breathing back to normal.
Some people should never go to space, but I think we're all glad that I did.
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