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The young candidate watched the not-so decisive green mildly, frowning slightly and contemplating his general attitude, which was mostly due to both bronzes having already found theirs. As he watched the green choose her own from the others he decided that if jealousy was a knife, he would be quite definitively dead. As he stared over the crowd at the remaining eggs he bit his tounge crankily, which didn't help to lighten his mood.

Tideal tried to cheer himself up boredly, stopping paying attention and mostly falling back in his mind to think of other things. Boredom, random ideas, what would be for dinner tonight. 'Oh this is exciting.' He though to himself. 'So many happy people and I'm off on a tangent thinking about pillows and the weather.'
Pillows.
Maybe if he put a shirt in his it would be more comfortable. He smiled slightly at the thought of a nice pillow. Or the ones at home, soft, fluffy, and comfortable.
Then he was back to the train of thought he was avoiding with the simple thought. He would sleep on frozen rocks for a dragon.

"Oh shards." He said without thinking, and frowned with a vengeance.

The second green, the only Hatchling standing on the Sands, and she was on the move! Nandeli followed her movements breathlessly and her jaw dropped when the dragon stopped before a very familiar boy. Kiriwar! Kiriwar had Impressed! Not only Okassis her best sleepover buddy ever but Kiriwar the adorable dimpled gay boy! This Hatching totally had to be the best Hatching ever! (Had she said that already? The heat was really getting to her brain). She made a mental note to tackle hug him when she got to the Hatching Feast the moment all of this egg hatching was finished. Kiriwar would get to stay at the Weyr! They could still be friends! Nandeli had to be the happiest Candidate on the Sands and boy was she ever proud of it.

Jessan looked over at Notos and Kiriwar as the other green approached them rather quickly. Jiriar, or what would his cousin's shortened name be, had made it off the sands with his beautiful dragon. This girl was pretty as well. What lovely stripes and coloring.

She circled them, back and forth, enjoying teasing them it seemed. Finally, she stopped her little game and moved forward towards the three boys. Which one would it be? Jessan waited to here that voice in his head... Finding his other half but then he saw the look on Kiriwar's face and new Impression had been made.

SHARDS! How awesome was that? Two picked from their very group in one Hatching. Surely now, he would have to hunt both boys down and congratulate them during the Feast later. He stifled a yawn, that is, if he could stay awake. How late into the night were they anyways? With a handful of eggs plus the gold left to hatch?

"Good job, Kiriwar," he whispered before the pair made their way off the Sands. Looking back to Notos, he winked. "Who do you think might be next?"

Oh Faranth. This was much tougher than Elae had thought. She didn’t know any of these people personally, of course, but she had heard so much of them from Nan. She was laughing and smiling along with the others but, inevitably, the laughter turned into a hacking cough. And it just wouldn’t stop. She covered her mouth with her hand, since no one wanted to see anyone else cough. Her knees wobbled a little and she had to put a hand on Raena’s shoulder to support herself.

She turned away slightly, because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately, the only thing that achieved was making her cough in a different direction. It certainly didn’t help with her breathing at all, or her vision which was fading rapidly. She blinked furiously, trying to see anything more than a small circle.

And then nothing. Some small part of her was aware she was falling, but there was nothing she could do to stop it.

(Hope you don't mind, FerretPrince!)

Notos laughed good-naturedly, about to answer to Jessan when something else in the crowd caught her eye. There was a girl, quite wobbly on her feet. Her erratic movements were the ones that caught his eye, Notos stared intently at her for a few seconds, when she suddenly began to lose her balance.

Diving through the crowd, Notos sprinted on his feet to catch the poor girl before she hit the ground. he just barely made it, falling down himself in the process. But he had caught the girl in his arms, disheveled. His robe was falling off his shoulder, dust in his hair, his hair was in disarray. "Hey.. wake up." A hand tapped her cheek lightly, seeing that she was unconscious. What the shards?!

Annelie had gone on and on, relaying the events -- at least what she could see -- to a seemingly very content and bubbly Yansanth. She was doing better this time around at being a news caster compared to the last Hatching, which hopefully would result in less whining from her bonded.

With the current light lull in events, Annelie once more got way up on her toes and tried to look amidst the crowds of the candidates, seeing if she saw any well, recognizable faces. ...Her search was unsuccessful though and she could only see the tops of their heads. Something did suddenly catch her eye, though: what seemed to be a sudden, small commotion, and the black-haired woman gave a childish leap up into the air to see better.

She wasn't sure if she was right, but suddenly a head seemed to dip and fall below the 'horizon' of heads, and if she wasn't mistaken... it, well... looked vaguely like Elae. Annelie couldn't be sure, she could barely see after all, but the thought of it sent her into worry, which immediately filtered to Yansanth and thus doubled.

"Ciill..." Annelie suddenly said, her voice nervous and full of dread and uncertainty. She looked over her shoulder to the young man and called again in a hushed tone, then moved over to him and quickly tapped his arm, nearly bumping into La on her way.

"Cil-- C'ym! I think Elae fainted. I can't be sure but I swear it was her..."