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 Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:13 am
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o2|| Solo - After the Hatching
o3|| Solo - First Flight
o4|| Solo - Between
o5|| Solo - The Gather
o6|| Solo - The Hatching
o7|| Solo - Healer Work and New Arrivals
o8|| Solo - Touched Eggs
o9|| Solo - Clutch Guesses
10|| Solo - Hatching...
11|| Solo - Whups?
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:48 pm
...So what does this mean now?
A green...to me.
I'm not going to pretend like I'm not shocked, because that would be a lie. Am I elated? Beyond that. I have a dragon, and she is mine, and I know that I will never be happier than I am this moment. But all the same, I feel...there's something I didn't expect here. For a while, now, I've been certain no dragon would ever come to me, but somewhere in the back of my mind, in the part where we hide all the dreams we don't want to talk about. In the part where most girls have dreams of golds. In that part of my mind, I always thought maybe a blue. It's not the colour most girls dream of, but...I'm not most girls. I didn't come here looking for a Queen. I came here on a blue, and I came here because of a blue.
Maybe it was romanticizing it, thinking that a blue would come for me to complete the cycle. But I never thought of myself as the type of girl who would ride a green. I'm not...
Well...
I don't like men. I might balk and edge around answering the question about my gender preference, but I just don't fancy the boys like that. And now, I've a green. And, well...Flights. And she's a green, and men ride blues and browns. We have so few women on male colours. So...who am I going to wake to in the mornings? Where do I go from here? Does it really matter? (Somehow, I don't think it does.) Isonth is asleep, and I really should be; she'll be awake in a candlemark and hungry again, no doubt. And who knows what tomorrow will bring, and the day after that.
A dragon. To me.
-Lanakirene, rider of Green Isonth
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Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:30 pm
Well, we did it! We finally flew today. We'd done a bit of gliding before, but today was the first real flight, and I can only imagine how much better they'll get as Isonth gets bigger and I get better at balancing. We've put so much work in, and now we finally get to see what it feels like to be true dragonriders.
I'm not sure any Weyrling realizes just how much they long for the moment when they first take wing until they've done it. Everyone knows that Weyrlings want nothing more than to fly, but this...was more than I could ever have imagined. There are moments in every Candidate's life when they fly on someone else's dragon. That's a given...but Faranth! It's so different when it's your own dragon doing it. There's that connection that I could never have imagined...
It was like Impression. You spend your whole life without it, until suddenly it happens and you realize it's what you wanted since the day you were born. It was really, truly amazing. I can't wait for the next lesson. There's so much left to learn, and it's finally picking up momentum.
Flight!
-Lanakirene, rider of Green Isonth
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:09 pm
Between. Cold and weird and frightening, but mostly extremely satisfying.
It’s good to know that all that memorization of every point of Ista, every rock, every high place in the Weyr, everything from the air and the ground and every possible angle, ALL of them (and the nearly full turn of memorization) was worth it. I was beginning to think we’d never learn to go between. Stupid, I know, but…well…can it really be that surprising? After so long, even Weyrlings begin to lose faith in what they’ve been told they’ll learn.
I guess that’s just adolescent stupidity speaking through us, though, because today we did it! Our first trip between and nobody was lost (thank Faranth and the Egg) and everyone can do it now! We're finally there!
We can fly, chew firestone, and between now. Finally, I can call myself a real dragonrider—even if I won’t be able to join a Wing for a long time.
The day has finally come, Ista. I am now truly one of the multitudes sworn to protect you.
-Lanakirene, rider of Green Isonth
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:05 pm
So I am officially excellent at dragonpoker.
Look what I haaaaaaave!
<3/La
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:15 pm
Oh, Faranth.
So much happened, tonight. By the Egg, I'm actually really worried. There are already nearly half a dozen really sick people, and it’s probably only going to get worse. I wonder how they all got it? Not that that matters…but at least Elae’s okay and so is everyone else, except maybe those who got mauled. I’m kind of scared. That Hatching was scary.
I missed the Feast. Hopefully nobody was worried that I wasn’t there. I’m not sick, after all, even if it looks like it’s just about time for me to take on the duties of a Healer again. We’ll see. I do want to, especially now that Isonth’s grown and I have time. There are people we could help. She’s so good with other dragons. It’ll be good if it happens. Shards and shells, it’s been a long night. I’m exhausted…
-La
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 5:30 pm
Went to go see Cordel, and I've got myself an apprenticeship. FINALLY! A real chance to learn Dragonhealing....even if it does mean that I'm not in the Wings anymore. This is more important than Threadfighting. Without us, an injured dragon would never fight again, so I'm okay with this. Yes, I am.
The lady doth protest too much.
But I will get over it, and Isonth is much happier this way. And just because every little girl dreams of rescuing Pern doesn't mean I have to. After all, every little girl also dreams of Impressing the Queen, and we can see where that dream would have gotten me. Really, this is better for everyone involved.
Incidentally, I brought Egg to Cordel and we...well, we rescued him. Good thing I brought him in, because he might well have died otherwise, and, well...
The thought of this little guy dying is just too much to bear.
I think I'm going to call him Menalia. No real reason, just liked the sound.
Isonth is very excited about him and wants to fuss a lot. Poor little thing's never going to get any sleep.
-La
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:31 pm
Shards and shells. Shards. And. Shells.
Scorch it, I don't even know what to say. I feel like I want to cry. I can't believe someone would do that. Cordel's drinking. Again. Isonth's in so much of a tizzy I can't think, thank Faranth I'm still alone in this weyr because two dragons would make this so much worse.
SHARDIT.
T'ka's sharding cousin touched the sharding eggs. TOUCHED THE SHARDING EGGS. No good's going to come of that family. Can't believe this is happening. Cheoth's frantic, Favan's furious, nobody's letting anyone near the eggs...
There's not going to be a Touching. Someone's going to die this Hatching.
Scorch it, scorch it, scorch it!
Favan wants to stake the Candidate for Thread. I don't blame her. If I were her and there was Thread, I wouldn't think twice. I can't fardling think right now. Shardit. I need to go find Cordel. At least Menalia's still eating right. Poor Isonth...I think she might have been soon to Rise, but this has really thrown her off.
She's panicking. I need to calm her down. Think I’ll oil her. Thank Faranth for the lavender oil leftover from the lice outbreak.
I just hope this goes all right.
-La
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 7:49 pm
I wish C'ren hadn't done that. That's not funny, it's not clever, and it's really sharding depressing. Let's hope Favan never comes across that, because we'll be waist-deep in dragonshit when that happens. Isonth's Not Happy about it, either. I'd just gotten her down from the latest "WE NEED TO GO SEE CHEOTH AND CHECK HER EGGS" episode.
Shardit, C'ren.
My own guesses:
Thoroughbred - Bronze
Quarter - Blue
Kiger - Brown
Arabian - Blue
Paint - Green
Shetland - Green
Clydesdale - Brown
Vanner - Blue
Akhal Teke - Bronze
Nightmare - Gold
Sport - Green
Sorraia - Blue
Andalusian - Brown
Fresian - Green
Sandalwood - Blue
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Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 11:50 pm
Thoroughbred - Brown
Quarter - Blue
Kiger - Bronze
Arabian - Blue
Paint - Green
Shetland - Green
Clydesdale - Blue
Vanner - Blue
Akhal Teke - Brown
Nightmare - Gold
Sport - Brown
Sorraia - Brown
Andalusian - Blue
Fresian - Green
Sandalwood - ...we'll never know.
Sleep undisturbed, little ones. We will carry your memory with us.
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Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:13 pm
Um
Not sure how this happened.
What are the rules about riders and Candidates, again? The bit about whether they can be together. That bit. Because I think I need a refresher in it to figure out if I'm allowed to think like this.
...Um...oops?
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