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 Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:31 pm
Journal: Page Nine
...You`ll never believe who else is a Candidate!
...My seahold buddy, Sovann. Been a while since I'd seen him last, but we were pretty close as kids, when my family made a lot of profit around his place and we saw each other a lot. When the marks dried up, we stopped visiting so often - just a few times a Turn, if we were lucky. One of my best friends on all of Pern. We'd dreamed about dragons as kids, but who would have thought we'd both wind up at Ista Weyr!
...Heading to breakfast, we met Inaari. Some Holder's daughter - I can't believe they Search them so young! Privilege probably got her in, but she's not the worst Holder kid out there. Maybe a bit snooty, but took us to get klah. Hated it, of course.
...Now Sovaan and me are challenging her to a contest to make a better cup of klah. I know the way to give it a kick, just you see!
...Will meet her tomorrow with testers. This is gonna be rich!
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:10 pm
Journal: Page Ten
...After breakfast, we headed out to prepare for the klah-off.
...What a day! Every fardling muscle aches. Seems strange that bug-catching is more work than real work around here! Sovann more than pulled his weight, too. He might not be a trader, but you know what they say about the sea breeding stern souls. Not tough enough to beat me at wrestling, though!
...Got all that we need for the contest tomorrow. It seems like there's a fair amount of buzz already going on about it. Supposed to find some taste-testers, I guess; I'll see who I can get.
...First, though - shards, do I need a soak!
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:45 pm
Journal: Page Eleven
...Got a bit lost today. The Weyr isn`t a small place, you know!
...Met a nice girl named Jessmet while she was changing glows. Seemed like she could use some help, so I assisted.
...Talked about the Red Star. She's got a bit of Archivist in her, and seems to know a lot. Says that it's coming soon. Told me about Finger Rock and Eye Rock on the eastern side of the Weyr.
...Need to get out to see 'em soon. Threads coming soon...? Really, really gotta see this with my own eyes, shards. Will there be time for change, if the threat's already come?
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:04 pm
Journal: Page Twelve
...That fardling kitchenmaster works me like a lame runnerbeast!
...But when I was getting some supplies for her, I met with a Weyrling, Annelie, and her young Queen, Yansanth. Quite the interesting pair - the little Gold was searching for a tunnel snake, hoping to make a pet, I understand. Gave her some tips, but I think I upset her rider. No, scratch that- I know her rider was angry. Understated, but angry.
...Nearly killed the poor tunnel snake, too. Shards, I just barely managed to get out of that one... Annelie's got good sense, but she's a lousy liar! That sort of thing wouldn't have worked if Yansanth were any older.
...Feeling guilty, now. Maybe I owe those two something to make up for the chaos I caused. If I can come up with something, maybe then....
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:34 pm
Journal: Page Thirteen
...Real late. Can barely keep my eyes open. Had to do extra duties to make up for time missed. Run-down, tired, exhausted.
...Ankle hurts like it got bit. What I get for not resting it. Doing a lot of lugging. They figured what I'm good for, and it isn't soft work.
...Shards, am I tired....
...Klah-off in the morning. Everything's ready. Hard to be excited, though.
...So much in my head. Been here a sevenday...? Must be.
...Wonder how Sis is doing. Wonder what Da told them happened. Wonder if they hate me. Wonder if I hate them. Wonder if I should.
...Too much in my head. Gotta forget it; got so much going on, can't keep at it. Klah-off is tomorrow morning Shells, repeating myself. Not a good sign.
...Want to write everything. Get it out, keep it out of my head. Scared I might not fit in here. People are nice, but sometimes I talk too much. I bug people with realities. Doubts. Bits and pieces that don't fit in here.
...I'm not wrong, though. There's something sick. It's gotta be fixed. Do I have to find the answer? Maybe. Shards, I'm so tired, I can't think about this now....
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:39 pm
Journal: Page Fifteen
...The Klah-Off happened today!
...Talk about success - that was fardling brilliant! We had Candidates, dragonriders, Harpers - even the Candidatemaster, Z'nal, tried our klah!
...No surprises in that Inaari won. Someone spiked the control pot with something fishy - I'm tempted to try and find out who, but that's for another day. The Candidatemaster, though... he was skeptical. We had to coax him to join in with Inaari's klah first, before he'd try ours. And he drank it, shards, he DRANK it!
...Got latrine duty for a week, but it was worth it. Ohh, was it worth it! Sure accomplished our mission, too - don't feel the least bit nervous about Hatching now!
...... Or I didn't, until I thought about it just now....
...- Okassis
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:16 pm
Journal: Page Sixteen
...Blast the shell and sear the skin, my head's itchy!
...Fardles, this sort of thing never happens in caravans. Only when you pack too many people together, living close. Sitting targets for bugs of all sorts. What dimglow managed to bring lice into the Weyr, though?!
...Can't stop scratching. At least I'm not alone; it's a communal rhythm, scritch-scritch-scritch, especially in the dorms. Shards, the pillows must be packed with the crawlers - feel like I'm going insane with all this -
...Asked around about fixes. Heard of at least a couple. Most of them don't seem to work too well. These things go away eventually though, don't they? Shards, who am I kidding, they're never going to leave as long as there's a hundred folks running around here without any good sense.
...Know one way that'll get the bastards, though. First thing in the morning. Assuming I can sleep.
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:08 pm
Journal: Page Seventeen
...The kitchen booted me today, so I wound up working at the Healers`.
...Getting the idea I'm getting more infamous than I really want to. The girl I met there, Zara, already knew a bit about me, and asked a couple questions about how I came to the Weyr in a bit less than a whole piece. I knew the kitchen girls were gossips, but you'd hope that Healers would be a bit more discreet!
...Guess it doesn't bug me as much as I let on, though. Not like I had to tell her anything. Just don't want people snooping in my business, you know? Still too fresh in my mind. Never saw the old man mad like that... never felt so mad at him, either. Still furious; it's never going away, I don't think. There's no way to fix what he did, nothing he could do to redeem himself, ever.
...Zara, though - the Healer girl. She showed me a place you can go to spy on the Hatching Grounds. Shards, it was amazing. I didn't think I could feel anything like the way I did when I saw them the first time, but they're still amazing! I owe her so big for showing that to me! Someday, I'll find a way to pay her back! Maybe once I've Impressed....
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:32 pm
Journal: Page Eighteen
...This evening, I did the dirty deed and chopped off my hair.
...But seems like I'm going to look like a dimglow for it; just as soon as I'm done, Sovann comes in with an idea for a lice cure. Fardles, he couldn't have told me that before?!
...Shouldn't write too much, but shards, I've got to get on this. The sooner we have this made, the sooner we can bring in the marks!
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:28 am
Journal: Page Nineteen
...Shards-- the Hatching`s started!
...S`van - brown, Zara - blue.
...No luck for me.
...Got a shard of Galliath's shell when I left.
...Got to head out. Don't want to look like I'm moping alone in here. Write more later.
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:15 pm
Journal: Page Twenty
...The Hatching Feast was something else, let me tell you. But it`s still hard to be excited over anything....
...Thinking too much. So much to think about. Lots happening. Lots happened. Nothing quite what I expected.
...Got so many thoughts in my head. Doubts and worries and uncertainties too. What am I going to do if I never Impress? One failed Hatching doesn't mean forever, sure, but....
...There's so much that has to be done. So much I want to see through.
...The Weyr isn't perfect. The world isn't perfect. And you can see the way this works. Like putting pressure on a bone. Once you see those tiny fractures, it's just seconds from snapping. Everything is like that.
...I don't think Thread is the most dangerous thing on Pern. I don't think dragons are, or dragonriders. I think it's the people who have to live with these things. I think it's the people who feel powerless.
...I thought I could change that. I think I can. I hope. Can I do it from the outside, though? Can I protect everyone and make things right? I know I couldn't do it alone. It's waiting for that perfect dragon, that one that I need. If none were born this Clutch....
...... But maybe there is no dragon like that....
...But if there isn't, it's all inevitable. Everything my father thinks. Do I have to agree with him, if I fail?
...Thread will never defeat Pern. But our terror of it might.
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:23 pm
Journal: Page Twenty-One
...Gathered up my bag, went to breakfast to try and find my best friend....
...Made him a present with a box I had been working on for a few sevendays. Thought I'd wind up selling it, but this was a better use.
...Not sure that I should've bothered, though. S`van... well, he's probably just busy. Got new things to worry about. In a different crowd, all that. Probably.
...Got work to do, anyway. Need to get some numbweed, and it's not a small hike. Shouldn't waste time writing when I should be moving out - that's the sort of deadglow attitude that gets folks left out for Thread!
..........- Okassis
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 2:05 pm
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Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 1:08 am
Journal: Page Twenty-Three
...Will get an earful for skipping out on chores, but fardles, I needed this. Get under the sun, back out in life, stretching those muscles. Destination in mind, goal to accomplish.
...Would've been better with company, but I'm not top priority anyway.
...Found the batch of numbweed I'd heard about, gathered up as much as I could carry. Probably more than I need, but I'm sure there's other use for it at the Weyr. Sun's high up now - better get back to the Weyr before it drops.
...Almost don't want to, though.
...Not thinking about quitting. Don't have an alternative anymore, after all; be a deadglow to stomp off from one trade and give up on another so fast. Besides, the Weyr is where I'm supposed to be. It just is.
...There's so much I gotta do, though. So many things I need to accomplish. And I don't know if I can wait until I Impress for all of them. I've got to make a start, set people in the right direction, before the Pass comes.
...This numbweed'll be a good start. I'll head back, get the lice remedy done, start selling it. If I can get some capital, maybe I can start an investment that'll help out....
..........- Okassis
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