Your mothman partner is a harbinger of misfortune.
It's not like they can help it- it's just a part of their nature.
They look at you from the threshold of your darkened shared quarters, eyes glowing.
"Where are you going?"
As they step into the lit foyer, you can see them wringing their clawed hands together.
"It's about lunch time, so I was thinking about going to get us something from the mess hall-"
They skitter over and throw themselves at you in a desperate embrace.
"No! Nononono- You can't! I had a vision!"
You've know them long enough to have gotten quite familiar with the whole 'foretelling omens of calamity and strife' thing. It's something you appreciate- though at times, what counts as a tragedy to whatever internal measure their abilities have seems to not be the most calibrated.
"Something we need to report?" You glance out the nearby porthole into the darkness of space, expecting to see something huge hurtling toward to the station or some other panic inducing sight.
"No. But it's awful," Their claws dig into the front of your t-shirt. "Terrible. Just the worst."
"What is it?"
"Your shoe is going to come untied!" They nearly shout (if you could describe the alien way they communicate as technically shouting in the first place), and then, checking their volume, hiss; "And you're going to trip."
You feel your mouth squirm at the edges as you struggle not to laugh in the face. You rub comforting circles into the feathery fur between where their wings meet on their back.
"Yeah?" You try to keep an even and very serious tone, as you try to keep your face in check. "Am I going to, uh… fall down the stairs? Or smack my head on something?"
The look up at you and their antennae flatten.
"…No…" They chitter pitifully. "…J-Just… stumble a little…"
"Well hey," You say, trying to soothe them. "That sounds like it won't be that bad, huh?"
"No! W-Well, probably, but-but-"
"But?"
"But you're gonna drop a metal tray and it'll make a really loud noise and everyone stops talking to look at you and it's going to be really. really. Embarrassing."
They visibly cringe at the thought, their normally featureless mouth area almost looking puckered, as if they had just tasted a lemon.
It seems like the second hand embarrassment from their vision of doom has affected them much more than it would've affected you, if it had happened in the first place.
"Oh no." You laugh, not managing to sound convincingly terrified in the least.
"I feel like you're not taking me seriously…" They pout. Or at least you think that's what facial expression it is.
"No, no. I think you're being serious. Hmm. But we do still need to get something to eat, right?"
They nod glumly.
"Oh, why don't you just come with?" You give them an affectionate pat on the head. "You can protect me from uh. metal trays. and embarrassment."
They perk up immediately, pupil-less eyes glimmering and wings vibrating just a bit at the edges.
"O-Okay…"
"Plus- I think you can be vigilant enough for the two of us."
"Hehe- but… you know it only sometimes helps when I try to intervene. Sometimes it makes it worse…"
They say this as if you don't already have first hand experience.
You shrug. You're not one to invite any more dire misfortune into your life. You think you can probably handle dropping a tray- especially if you're getting a lunch date out of it, now.
"What's the worst that can happen?"












