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Aerith gave what Mercy could only take as a snort of amusement as they ambled along the beach. "What's so amusing?" She asked, taking her attention from the ground where she had been studying a particularly unique looking little stone which after only a moments thought she pocketed, maybe she'd find a crafter someday to turn it into a bracelet or something.

'Up ahead mine' Aerith responded 'The blue had practically thrown his into the water' The white responded. 'It looks rather fun, perhaps we should try it sometime'

"What?" Mercy exclaimed quickly glancing down the shoreline to spot this blue and rider, oh she'd known there were others on the beach of course but she hadn't really been paying much attention to what they were doing. Sure enough as Aerith had said a blue and his rider seemed to be having a rather good time in the water - with all the splashing and such however Mercy couldn't quite make out who the rider and dragon pair were..though she tried to know them all by name even if she didn't actually know them personally. "I'm not sure about that Aerith" She told the dragon,not quite sure if the activity looked like fun or not although this pair seemed to be having a good enough time of it.

Aerith scoffed at her 'I bet its fun' The white stated 'Why else would they do it?'

"I'm sure that it is" Mercy replied and having walked close enough now to make their presence known without screaming she called out a friendly "Hello!, Looks like you two are having fun" At the frolicking pair, Aerith stopping beside her to watch with whirling pleasant eyes.

Now that she was close enough to make out the dragons markings and his rider as she surfaced from the water Mercy recalled the pair - they had impressed at the same time as she and Aerith, Mazamath and Adi she thought the girl liked to be called if she was recalling the names correctly from the various lessons they had had together as their dragons grew and Mazamath had certainly grown into a very pretty looking blue.

"Aerith thinks it looks fun" Mercy responded with a laugh "But I don't know, is the water warm?" Mercy liked to swim as much as anyone she supposed but she had never liked it enough to freeze to do it.

'Mazamath' Aerith greeted the blue pleasantly 'How are you and yours lately?' She asked politely before commenting to her own rider 'I'm sure the water is fine, Mazamath and his are in it'

'Dragons are not exactly good at judging cold' Mercy replied ruefully 'you guys are fine going between but its sharding cold to us humans' She pointed out, still she moved forward a bit and dipped her toes into the water. "It's not to bad" She admitted after a few moments whereupon Aerith gave her a look that could only be interpreted as I told you so....before head butting her into the water up to her knees.

"Aerith has a tendency to do that" Mercy told the other girl with a mock weary sigh and an equally mocked glare at her dragon who merely stuck her nose in the water and blew bubbles at her in amusement. Of course now that she was in the water she certainly didn't want to get out again for a little bit, the water wasn't bad now that she'd gotten over the getting in part and she wasn't eager to walk back to her weyr soaking wet.

"So what do you think of all the rumors floating around? She asked Adi having gotten the impression from Aerith that Mazamath had mentioned it. If Mercy remembered correctly Adi was generally pretty well informed when it came to Weyr gossip. Perhaps she had heard something Mercy hadn't.

'We have been hearing things about it as well, it is troublesome this tension between the weyr's. dragons and riders ought to be working together not bickering aver plants nor bragginf over egg size' Aerith told Mazamath, the issue of the egg size was espechially disturbing to the white - everyone knew her own egg had been fairly small, heck she was still small, even Mazamath dwarfed her in the department and he wasn't one of the larger colors to begin with. Aerith wasn't at all fond of this 'larger is better' mindset some of the riders were following.

"I wonder at how big the eggs really are and how much of it is just Bendens bragging" Mercy mused slightly, everyone knew the older Weyr was a proud one and they would certainly be the type to put a bit of an extra bump to the story, although anyway you looked at it 17 eggs and a Queen egg was impressive regardless.

"I wish everyone was getting along - then we'd maybe get the chance to go and see the clutch and the hatching, I love hatchings..but I highly doubt they'd be welcoming really, what with the Weyr Women not getting along, and they wouldn't like Aerith anyways..even though the sire was a Benden dragon" No Mercy would certainly not be able to go an see this hatching nor see how large these eggs truly were. She would just have to wait for Malvrens next clutch to get her hatching fix she supposed "And in any case we're going to have far more important things to deal with soon anyways - everyone knows that blasted star is getting closer" She stated with a glance towards the sky even though the red star wasn't visible at the moment.

"I have to guess that something happened to him - I mean he was old, I can't see him wandering to far at his age, but that doesn't explain why he hasn't been found yet. Something is definitely going on there" She agreed, treading water along with the other girl while Aerith waded out a bit further to enjoy the water herself.

"That would be kind of neat, a giant green, I wonder if it would still be as agile as greens normally are or if that would mean it flew more like a blue" She pondered for a few moments "I bet it would fly like a blue" She suddenly decided though she doubted they would ever really find out - well unless Malvren's clutch was also huge.

"It would be silly not to be scared I think, Aerith and I are too but Maz has grown into a good sturdy dragon, I'm sure he'll be excellent in a wing and the training will prepare us about as well as we can be I think" She offered helpfully "Everyone will take care of everyone in their wing" She assured her, that was the point of all the training right? So they would know what to do and be able to handle it when it happened.

"That is true" Mercy agreed "I recall a few elder people when I used to work with the healers, sometimes they didn't really know where they were..but this guy must have been fairly lucid right? I mean to do what he did with the mystweed. I hope they find him...even if something did happen to him it would be sad not to know, not to you know..pay respects and such. "

"She would I bet, all the boys would be terribly frustrated I imagine, but it would certainly be something to see" Mercy agreed as she pondered the thought of the giant green some more, not that Mercy was all that worried about size - but it was still an interesting thought given the general 'this size does this' way of thinking about the weyrs. "It would probably bug the Bendens riders too I bet, they're so stuck in thier ways, I mean if they can't accept the Atypicals how would they feel about a giant green or a giant blue taking on roles they don't normally do?..Maybe it will teach them to be more open, that would be nice" Of course it was all speculation at this point but it was a nice thought, that this strange clutch would somehow bring them all together. Mercy wasn't going to hold her breath about it though.

"There are a few handsome bronze riders" Mercy agreed with a laugh "Handsome and throw in a good temperament and it would be great" She assumed it would be one of the older bronze riders anyways, most of the time she was pretty sure it was.

"Maybe he got tired of growing weeds, I mean he was an ancientcrafter - not a farmcrafter" She pointed out - it was a different and far more positive way to look at the older mans disappearance and Mercy found herself hoping that that was indeed the case.

"That would be something to see, I could see a large blue being just as good as a brown and browns have been wingleader's before" It was possible right? Mercy thought it might be, anything was possible at some point in time, of course she was sure that such a pair would probably have to work harder to prove themselves then a brown or bronze pair but if they were persistent enough it was plausible.Or at least that's what she liked to believe.

'you ought to believe that about us as well mine' Aerith prompted internally and Mercy cast the white a fond look 'I do love, I do and always will' She promised - even if it was hard sometimes. Turning her attention back to her conversation while Aerith returned to lounging in the water she nodded knowingly at her fellow rider "Of course there's not just the Wingleader to choose from, if he's cranky there's always the wing second...or any of our fellow wingrider's, There's some good looking riders in our ranks"

She agreed it was nicer to look at the more positive point of view when it came to the ancientcrafter - she'd much rather he just got bored and left then have had something happen to him. "Of course if he did do that it was kind of rude" She commented with a lsight laugh "To just up and leave like that"