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'Hurry mine, I itch, the little one itches too. Where has the oil gone?' Vespereth quietly rumbled her her's, snuffling about in the blankets on Cass's bed as though the jar might be hiding under them.

"Darlin', its not hiding in the blankets." Cass said, bemused as she looked up from rummaging through her bag. She knew she had just seen it here a little bit ago. She, Vespereth, her blue flit Ohm, and the mysterious little gold friend he seemed to have picked up had all just come from a nice hot bath at the springs, and Cass could all but see their skins drying out.

A chittering from under the bed drew both her and her dragon's attention and she set aside her bag and peered under it, Vespereth doing the same. Her newly hatched blue (only a week old, a gift from her friend L'pin) squeaked happily as he and the gold flit he seemed to be getting on quite well with rolled the missing jar of oil out from under the bed.

"Ah, you brilliant little creatures!" Cass said with a grin, taking the jar of oil in one hand and scooping Ohm up in the other, lavishing him with petting and appreciation, making him croon with happiness. The little gold cheeped at her and the young rider placed Ohm on Vespereth's back, his favorite perch and gently took up the gold as well, stroking her and telling her how good she was to help little Ohm. Whoever's flit she was, she was well trained and friendly. Cass placed the mystery gold on her dragon's back next to Ohm and the two cheeped at one another.

'Can we go now mine? I would like to be oiled out in the sun. It is warm there, I don't like being in here when there is nice warm stone and sun outside.' Vespereth said with a pleading look to her whirling green eyes. The green never seemed to mind being a perch for Ohm, in fact, she seemed to quite enjoy it, especially when Cass was busy with some chore or task that didn't involve taking care of vespereth herself. She seemed very fond of the blue, and didn't seem to mind the new addition to their party either.

"Alright alright, lets go and get you taken care - oof!" Cass had been looking over her shoulder as she walked out the door, resulting in her running directly into a young man just as he stuck his head in the door.

"Shardit yourself!" Cass said back, putting her hands on her hips and staring up at the intruder. She was about to continue and give this boy a piece of her mind when his next words caught her off guard. Looking back over her shoulder where Vespereth was with the flits, Cass' mouth formed a little 'o' of surprise.

"That little darling is yours?" she asked in surprise, looking back up at the rude intruder, raising an eyebrow and giving him a once over out of curiosity.

Vespereth rumbled in warning at the boy as he started shouting at hers as she moved forward to the girl's defense, flits still on her back. 'This boy is very rude mine! He's not even supposed to be here and he's yelling at you.' The little green gave a snort at the hypocrisy. 'Lets go, mine, if he wants his little one back, he can come get her outside. I'm itchy and starting to get cranky. He really won't like me when I'm cranky.' she said and pushed her way out of the door, past the boy and out into the sunshine. Vespereth may have been the smallest of the latest clutch, but she had grown quite a bit since then, and though still very petite, she had more than enough muscle to push the boy aside and get out. The green was normally a very cheerful sort, but shard it all, she was itchy.

Cass watched her green shoulder the boy aside, though not hard enough to knock him off his feet, laughing a bit "Look, I'm sorry I knocked into you, but you really oughtn't be sneaking around in here like that." she said "Come on outside though, I need to oil Vespereth before she starts getting cranky. Your pretty little gold could use some oil too, you can share mine if you like." she said with a fetching smile as she slipped past him and out the door after her dragon and the firelizards.

Vespereth had settled herself down so that she was laying on her belly, wings spread out slightly so that they too could catch the warmth of the afternoon sun. Ohm hopped over as Cass approached, and the girl deftly caught him up and placed him on her shoulder. She sat on her knees beside her dragon and set to work, smiling at the little gold as she sidled this way and that out of her way as she worked. Her green let out a long, relieved sigh as she rubbed the oil into her hide, making Cass' smile broaden.

Ah, so he was one of those 'this man's dragon' types. How ridiculous. Their opinions had hurt Cass at first, until she realized that there were people who didn't mind female riders too, liked them even. The majorigy of Vespereth's clutchmate's bonded's were friendly to her. She was even good friends with most of them. The ironic part being, of course, that she and the only other female rider from that clutch hated one another.

Over the past few weeks, Cass had been perfecting her technique on how to deal with boys such as this. His accusing her of stealing his firelizard only cemented her course of action.

She laughed at him.

"Steal your firelizard?" She asked, still laughing a bit as she turned her gaze from the boy with the broken nose and back to her dragon, who idly opened one blue eye, rumbling slight encouragement for her to keep working. "Don't be ridiculous. You should know that you can't keep a firelizard anywhere they don't want to be." she remarked, sparing him an arch look "Besides, its not as though we've got her tied up." She said with a gesture to the little gold who still perched on her dragon.

Having gotten the worst of the patches on Vespereth, Cass took Ohm from her shoulder and cradled him in one arm as she gently began to apply oil to a few small patchy spots he had developed. He was still quite young and growing, so his hide took nearly constant care, just as Vespereth's did.

"Go ahead and sit down." the petite invited her accuser, pushing the little jar of oil towards him "Your gold needs oiling too." She looked up at him again, eyes large and dark in her heart shaped face, framed by short blond hair "That nose looks like it hurts. Somebody punch you?" she asked curiously.

Cass did her best to school her amused expression, finding it obvious that this guy was definitely not the kind who liked to be laughed at. So, as she listened, she worked on Ohm's hide, petting him lovingly as she did so. He really was such an adorable, loving little creature. She was so thankful that L'pin had kept his promise and given her the egg that had held him inside. She decided it would be best to wait until the boy had calmed down a bit before explaining that there was certainly no way a mere little newly hatched blue could keep a queen anywhere. When he spoke of a familiar person though, a look of disgust crossed her face.

"UGH, you had a run in with Y'ul?" she asked, immediately sympathetic "She is the worst!"

Vespereth cracked one eye open and gave a little huff of agreement, winning her an affectionate pat from her rider before the girl continued speaking.

"You're hardly the first, let me tell you! Did you know, when I first met her, she almost punched me in the face too? Just because I spilled a little flour on her?" She asked, leaning towards him conspiratorially, a frown on her full lips at the memory "If L'pin hadn't been there to hold her back, I probably would have ended up worse than you! Shards, at the hatching, while I was just feeding vespereth right after hatching," another fond smile towards hers broke her frown for a moment before she turned back to Sharkal " I actually congratulated her on impressing, and then she went and elbowed me in the face! She's so horrible, can't control her urges in the least." Cass said disaprovingly as she set the well oiled Ohm back on her shoulder and turned to add some more to Vespereth's hide.

Cass nodded vehemently in agreement at Sharkal's 'She-Wher' comment. It certainly did describe the other female to a tee. Well, to Cass it did anyways. She poured a little more oil on her cloth and worked it into her dragons hide, making Vespereth sigh in pleasure as she did so. It was very hard for the green to get worked up about anything, even her rider's injury, when she was basking in the warm afternoon sun and being oiled so well by her's. Not that she didn't care, of course, but the green hardly even remembered the incident. The only thing that really stuck was how much she had been upset, and how much Cass disliked the other rider.

Ohm chirped as the queen offered him a bit of sausage, and he sniffed it curiously before he eagerly took a bite out of the tidbit, crooning in delight.

Cass looked at the little pair and smiled "You know, I think they are becoming quite a good pair of friends." she observed, trying another tact to get Sharkal over the idea of her 'kidnapping' his flit. "So," she began, looking at the boy now "Are you a candidate?" she asked curiously.

"Oh I don't know about that." Cass remarked when Sharkal tried to shoot down her friend's comment "I think firelizards remember more than most people give them credit for. They might not remember specific events, but I think they'd remember having a particularly strong emotion about someone or something." she pointed out.

When he let on that he was a weyrbrat, Cass smiled "Me too. Born and raised here in Telgar. I had only just made up my mind to stand last hatching since I thought there was a gold egg on the sands," she grimaced slightly at the memory of how many girls had been dissipointed by the bronze that had emerged onto the sands from that egg "it was a good thing I did too, or I never would have met Vespereth." She said with a fond smile to her dragon, kissing her on her brow ridge.

'I would have found you wherever you were, mine.' was the sleepy reply.

"I worked in the kitchens a lot." Cass said with a slight shrug. There were a lot of weybrats at Telgar, it didn't surprise her that she didn't know them all. She was sure she had seen them all, but that didn't mean she knew all their names. Most of the kids tended to run in certain groups anyways. Most likely she and Sharkal had hung out with completely different people.

Cass looked over at the boy when he actually thanked her, and smiled "She's welcome anytime." she said, and Ohm chirped his agreement. Vespereth had since fallen asleep, much to her rider's amusement.

"You're welcome anytime too." she added, almost to her own surprise, but smiled all the same. It never hurt to have more friends, she figured, and if she could turn the opinion of on female rider hating boy, then perhaps she could hope to do the same for others.