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“Xisuma?” Etho says, standing in the door to X’s office.
“Yes Etho?” X asks, not looking up from the four screens of code he has in front of him, hands flying across them.
“I think something is wrong with my hands.” Etho says, stepping into the room, "they keep shaking."
X looks in his direction, and Etho holds up his hands.
X closes the screens of code, stands up, and walks forward to meet the masked hermit.
“How long have they been shaking?” X asks, taking Etho’s hands in his own to get a better look.
“A couple weeks.” Etho replies, “but they got really bad the past few.”
“How bad? Can you hold things properly?” X asks, flipping over Etho’s left hand.
“I don’t know, I dropped my mug of tea this morning.” Etho says, “I think I scared Bdubs.”
“I’ll check your code.” X says, “how about you take a seat.” X says, pointing to the chair he was previously sitting in, and pulling up a screen of code.
-♡-
“I don’t see anything wrong with your code.” X sighs, after what feels like hours, “have you tried any potions?”
“No.” Etho admits.
“Alright.” X says, “try a strength potion.” he says pulling a bottle with purple liquid, glistening in the torch light.
“Thank you.” Etho says, carefully taking the potion from the admin’s hands, and putting it in his own inventory.
“Come see me if it does not help, or your hands get worse” X says.
“Will do.” Etho responds, leaving the voidwalker’s base.
-♡-
When Etho gets back to his base (he walked, not trusting his hands to hold onto a rocket), opens the bottle from his inventory X gave him, and downs it in one go.
He can feel the position buzz in his veins, before it dies off.
He looks down at his hands, and sees they have stopped shaking so violently, now you can only see them shake if you are looking for it.
“Thank Void.” he says, as he gathers his supplies to go mining.
-♡-
Etho wakes up, and his hands are shaking again.
“The portion must have worn off.” he says aloud.
He walks through his base sorting through his position till he finds a strength on.
Etho uncorks the potion, and drinks it, putting the empty bottle back into the chest.
He feels the potion buzz in his veins for a few seconds before his body goes back to normal, and his hands aren't shaking.
He breathes a sigh of relief, before pulling out his comm.
<you whispered to Xisumavoid: the potion are working, thank you :)>
<Xisumavoid whispered to you: glad to hear that. Talk to me it something happens.>
Later he will journey to the nether to gather resources for more strength potion, but first he has to make something to eat.
-♡-
It has been about three weeks since Etho went to X with his hand problem, and it has only gotten worse.
Now Etho has to take three portions throughout the day, and it’s affecting him.
The portion is affecting his body like caffeine.
He lays awake at night causing him to drift off when he is not doing anything, or is sitting down with someone.
He feels very irritable, and nervous.
The worst part is the potion are starting to not work.
“-and she made me a really cute charm to put on my saddle.” Bdubs says, as he sits waiting for Etho to finish making the pasta.
Etho has not really been paying tension to Bdubs’s conversation, instead focusing all his concentration on making his hands work properly .
Etho as pickles up the pot of pasta, to dump the water in the sink, he prays to Mother Void, that he not drop the pot.
“Etho, do you need a hand with that?” Bdubs asks.
“Would you just shut up !” Etho snaps at him, losing all concentration on keeping his hands from shaking, and drops the pot.
Etho screams in pain as the boiling hot water jumps from the pot, as it hits the floor, and sprays over his arms and torso, soaking into his clothes, and burning his skin.
“Etho!” Bdubs screams as he rushes forward, “oh my Void, what happened?”
“I-I’m s-sorry.” Etho status out, as crumples to his knees.
“Etho, It’s okay, “Bdubs says, as he catches him, “Drink this,” he says, pulling a healing potion from his inventory of Etho’s burns.
“I-I s-snapped at y-you.” Etho stutters as tears pour down his face.
“I don’t care.” Bdubs says, “I care if you're okay, now drink this please.” he says, pulling down Etho’s mask, and pressing the bottle to his lips.
Etho drinks the liquid.
“Now what happened?” Bdubs asks, “why did you drop that pot?”
“My hands,” Etho says, taking a deep breath as he tries to stop the tears, “they are shaking. Have been shaking.”
“Oh.” Bdubs says, “have you told X?”
Etho nods, “a couple weeks ago, but it has gotten worse.”
“Okay I’m going to contact him, and we’ll see if he has a solution for this.” Bdubs says, pulling out his comm.
“I’m sorry.” Etho repeats.
“No I’m sorry, “Bdubs says, “I should have noticed earlier.” he says, as he tell the admin to come to Etho’s base.