Spooky Scary Skeletons
03 Oct 2016Tristan Pacheco
Everyone in the Bubble is at least aware of the old holidays, considering most are still celebrated. Halloween is not an exception. But Halloween (or really, just October) in the place where it was first celebrated is...well...dare I say a life changing experience? It's certainly something else. Unlike my home planet, Earth has 4 seasons, and Halloween takes place during the third (can't remember the formal name), and the second coldest. And when I say cold, I mean just about freezing. LHS 3447 A 5 never got below 80 F, even in the wet season. Here on Earth it's 65 and it gets even colder than that (when I came on Christmas I stayed in my spacesuit it was so cold). But I digress. Because of the temperature, the trees adapted to lose all their leaves (I am told they do not die in this state of hibernation) during the second two seasons, and in the middle of the night, illuminated by Luna, they do kind of resemble human skeletons. I know Halloween has deeper roots than trees, but the temperature, the trees, the numerous millennia old graveyards, and the tendency of every commercial product to be flavored with a fruit called pumpkin, really ties it all together. Tie that with the fact that everyone here is rich and doesn't have to work, so every single person will be out trick or treating (it was too hot to do this where I'm from). There's still 28 or 9 days before the holiday itself, but everyone here is acting like it's tomorrow, and it's pretty exciting. I really should have mentioned this before, but the war at Barnard's Star had a ceasefire, so the squadron is back at Sol again spending all of our hard-earned credits, while simultaneously hoping command doesn't remember that we're a spec-ops squadron and have no business on the frontlines (read my last entry). Anyways, who knows where we'll be in a month's time, or even if we'll be alive (probably will; we're pretty badass overall), but I sincerely hope we'll be able to come back for bevs and stuff on Halloween.
I apologize if whoever is reading this is doing so as part of some post-mortem investigation or something, and got exactly 0 useful info from this entry.