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 Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:16 am
"I've eaten fish, but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy the smell of them. I prefer to eat things once they're cooked and no longer smell like something crawling from somewhere gross. Of course, that can be said about almost anything - wherries certainly aren't very clean either yet we eat them on a daily basis."
L'pin was making himself to sound more and more picky as time went by, but in reality he was actually a pretty laid back guy. He just didn't like the smell of the ocean, nor the feel of water he couldn't see past his feet in. There wasn't much reason for him to explain his particularities, most of all not a brat seven turns his junior.
As Tethis continued to chatter on and conversation turned towards his working again and a remark was made about his Blue, L'pin let the casual expression he'd been wearing slip from his face.
"You may be smiling, but watch your words. There is nothing friendly in your mockery of Shamth's actions, nor my own."
L'pin rose to his feet and dusted the sand from his pants as he strode a bit forward, not intending to leave but getting just hot enough that a small dip in the water would be considered allowed. Shamth seemed to have understood what is Chosen was doing and surfaced his head about 200 feet from the shore, greenish blue eyes swirling inside his head. He had heard his chastise this curious brat on his behalf, and he loved L'pin for it.
"As for how I long ago I impressed? It's been about seven turns I suppose? Maybe six? I can't keep track nor do I really care to, for all I know is that the day Shamth entered my life everything was born anew. It was like I didn't know how to be happy until I met that simpering Blue dragonet who refused all others even when approached."
There was intense pride in L'pin's voice, his mind remembering right away the day he had stood and found his very own, the one whom he would share his heart and soul with for the rest of his days. The turn didn't matter, the hour didn't matter, only the time from that point onwards mattered.
"As for you being a female rider, there is some hatred towards you because of that, I've noticed. You're young and childish, inexperienced in the ways of learning to deal with spite. While you may never fully get the treatment you deserved, you should know at least by now not everyone in the Weyr holds the same views."
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 3:42 pm
She quirked a brow at him and let her body fall back onto the sand. There was nothing else she wanted to say to him right now, her desire for company turned off as soon as her basic curiosity was sated. So she waved a hand at him as he moved forward. "Thank you for accompanying me this far."
The blue shape of her dragon moved from the water, moving to nestle near His, eyes whirling lazily. His was quietly displeased when he blocked the sun's warmth, he could feel the wave of her unhappiness, and he shifted his heavy body to accommodate. It sounds horribly boring, that he can't identify himself as separate from Shamth, Feylith observed.
I don't think that's how he meant it. the young woman corrected. The blue quirked his head at her, silently questioning. You started a new life for me as well, Feylith.
One that makes you-
Never. Never unhappy that you chose me to be your partner. I love you.
He reached out, blew his breath across her face gently to brush a blond lock from her forehead. Of course you do. I am your partner. I am your wings. He paused for a moment, looking at the smaller blue's whirling eyes. Shamth amuses me.
Why?
But Feylith didn't answer, his personal amusement floating the bond between he and His. Whatever he saw was kept a close secret, blue-green eyes whirling indulgently as he looked at His.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:53 pm
L'pin called out for Shamth as soon as he entered the water, his steps stopping as the salty waves washed against his waist. This was probably as far as he would dare go out without his dragon at his side, so calling for the Blue was a good idea.
Your Shamth is coming, Mine. When yours reaches you, shall we return to our weyr?
Shamth's voice sounded oddly pleading and humble inside L'pin's head, and he chuckled as he watched a familiar blue face surface above the water. It peered at him with eyes mixed in blue-green, and the rider reached his hand out to motion for dragon to come closer.
"Calling yourself 'your Shamth' again, are we? You haven't done that since you were a dragonet, or since the time we both found ourselves in serious trouble."
His voice was soft and teasing, and as a wet snout touched his palm he felt a blooming wave of love wash over him. Shamth was really pleased that his was in the water, and well away from that brat on the shore and her runt of a Blue. He made no attempts to hide the feelings, getting another chuckle from his rider.
"I think he likes you, you know."
I'd rather wallow in dung than like him back.
". . . harsh."
Their words carried on seabreezes, though slightly muffled.
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Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:58 am
"I want to play." Tethis said a few minutes later, laying a hand on Feylith's hide and looking up at him with her bright eyes.
Play?
"We'll call it extra practice if anyone asks." she murmured to the blue seriously. "But really it'll just be playing in the water. Or on it, rather. I want to go surfing."
Surfing? As Feylith picked up mental images from His showing humans standing on thin pieces of wood, skimming along on the tops of waves, he seemed mildly alarmed. What if you fall, all the way out there? No, Mine, that activity will not be done. He sounded concerned.
"There isn't really a-"
No. His voice was adamant. Shamth, if yours told you it wanted to go riding on the wavetops on a flimsy piece of wood, he offered up the images he'd gotten from Tethis, how would you go about restraining them? It galled him that he might have to ask advice from an older dragon- one who certainly didn't have this problem with His. But in the end, Feylith knew he would capitulate to His without a proper plan for telling her no. And he certainly didn't have a proper plan for telling her no, he was too used to indulging her.
Trumpeting about like a worried wherry every time she fell would not be a good way to spend the afternoon.
Feylith trumpeting about like a worried wherry every time she fell would not be the best way to spend the afternoon, Tethis reflected when Feylith lapsed into silence. The two eyed each other. "We could compromise."
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:13 pm
Shamth turned his head towards the larger Blue on the beach as images flooded his mind, and for a moment his peaceful eyes turned red at having him time spent in thought with L'pin interrupted. He honestly felt that this brat of a dragon had no room to try and speak to him without having a real reason, though he supposed he could prove that his was superior to the girl that Feylith called his own, so he went ahead and relayed the message.
Mine, Feylith wanted me to ask if you would ever wish to try something like this, or if your Shamth would allow you to do so.
As the images passed from dragon to rider, L'pin turned his head to look back at the pair on the beach. He was mildly interested at how the girl seemed to know so much about the ocean and her want of it, but given that she had been with the Harpers it actually didn't seem like such a mystery after a while. Still, standing on water on a piece of wood and falling over?
Not really his cup of tea, but then again he was already at the beach. He was game to try anything at least once if he was already in the water, and it was too hot now to just get out and lay around.
"Would you let me do it if I asked you to assist me?"
I can't refuse you, so of course.
It was against Shamth's better judgment to agree to this, but at least his] didn't seem the type to want to break his neck. Still, the Blue felt irritated that everything L'pin had done so far for the day came from suggestions by others, and not from Shamth.
Runt, Mine says he will give it a shot. You and yours need to explain.
He sent a message back to Feylith, displeased.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:03 pm
((Since you'd suggested this as the place where the eggs we'd won were gained...))
Feylith's eyes whirled a yellow-green color. That- that wasn't helping? He gave an audible moan. Mine, Shamth's is willing to give it a try. Please, please be careful with this?
Tethis lit up, almost gleefully. "I'll make sure both you and Shamth, and L'pin of course, understand everything! It's something I picked up while I was a Seacraft Apprentice. It's called surfing."
She waved a hand at L'pin. "Would you mind coming up this way?" she called, trying to be heard over the surf and the distance. "Better to explain everything before we get in the water!" and then she darted for the woods, Feylith on her heels nervously. He sent to Shamth, in case the rider had not heard Tethis' request. Mine asks that you come up on the beach. She would like you and Yours to be comfortable with what she describes. She does not want Yours to come to harm through this exercise.
I'll just be looking for wood, my love. Feel free to stay here, I won't get lost. Tethis sent back, when noticing the dragon following her.
The blue paused, but continued with her. There may be Felines about or something else big and dangerous. I am bigger than anything else on this beach and I will be able to carry the wood for you as well.
She stumbled around looking for something big enough to support the weight of someone of L'pin's size first. She knocked about a few large pieces, poking about roots and the like for several minutes, thoughtful. It would be simpler, perhaps, to have gone and gotten a proper board from her former home- but she didn't want to risk her companion coming to his senses while she was gone! So engrossed was she in her task, that when she tripped, she almost didn't realize what she had tripped over.
Shards and Shells! "Feylith, it's firelizard eggs!" But where was the mother? Perhaps it was a green's clutch- she'd heard green firelizards would forget about their clutches sometimes, though golds guarded theirs desperately.
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:28 pm
(( sounds good, sounds good! ))
"On our way!"
L'pin let himself get pushed to shore by the waves as he made his way back, the tide faster than his own legs thanks to the motion of the massive beast at his side. Shamth was taking his time in walking, his hide shimmering with the salt from the sea, and it almost made him look even more unreal than a dragon should. L'pin marveled at him for a moment, almost fawning, until the squaks from further up the beach grabbed his attention.
Shamth, what did she say?
Firelizard eggs. It seems that the girl stumbled upon an abandoned clutch.
A look of pure excitement crossed over L'pin's face and his strides in the waves turned to a leaping run, the young man doing his best to get to where he'd seen Tethis disappear towards. If there was a chance for him to snag an egg - Faranth! He'd get it without any doubt!
"Tethis, where are you?"
Being on shore was different than being on land, and for the first time since they'd come out here L'pin actually called the Blue rider by her name. Mostly it was an attempt to get her to answer loudly, but had he really not said it until now?
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:58 pm
She was feeling the eggs frantically, trying to see if they were warm enough. Most of them seemed to be cool, or had suffered cracks. But towards the bottom, half hidden under dirt and leaves, she found three likely-looking eggs. She heard the other rider call her name, and she called back as loudly as she could. "Over here, L'pin!" she lifted the eggs that looked viable, holding them close to herself, regretting the fact she was wet.
She turned, hurrying towards the beach and the sunlight and warm sand, dropping to her knees and setting them out. Feylith hovered over her, the anxiousness she was feeling transmitting itself to her. He looked at the eggs with whirling yellow eyes, helping her nudge sand into a pile. It took her a moment to realize that L'pin had called her by name, and when she did, she gave him a blink, though no comment was made.
Was he skipping? No, surely it was just the way he was running. And then her teal eyes were on the eggs again, checking over them to make sure she'd caused them no harm in her hurry to get them to warmth.
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:13 pm
L'pin made it to Tethis's side about the time she'd gotten the eggs out onto the sands on the beach, leaning over her shoulder to peer down at the find. A few drops of water splashed from his clothing against the sands and his feet were coated with a healthy layer, but for now he'd ignore it all and focus on the wonderful find.
"Wow, you really did find a treasure! Since you didn't get attacked by a Gold and it seems there are the only ones that managed to make it out okay, am I to assume this is a Green's clutch?"
He was eying an egg that was blue and and brown and a little on the larger side, resting between the two others on the sands. L'pin had always fancied the idea of a firelizard (who hadn't?), mostly for a companion to Shamth. L'pin moved away from behind Tethis and to her side, squatting down in the sand next to her, thinking and caring nothing about the issues he could be causing for personal space.
Shamth did care, however, and his eyes turned a nasty shade of red as his peered down at the eggs before the girl. He wasn't upset with L'pin, of course, but more or less with the girl that the rider was interacting with. There was only so much this Blue would tolerate . . .
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:53 pm
Personal space? Bah, Tethis and Feylith wouldn't have noticed or cared, if it weren't for the red glow to Shamth's eyes that Feylith noticed. A wave of rage from her dragon had Tethis glancing up at Feylith, who was looking fixedly at the other blue. "It seems like this is a green's clutch, you're right." she agreed easily, moving her eyes to Shamth. His eyes were red, but she couldn't tell if he was really that angry with her, or with the flits. What is wrong, my heart?
I don't like the way he is looking at you, TethisMine. There was a plaintive note in his tone that reminded her of the way he had called for her every time she went to walk away from him, when he was a young dragon. And he hadn't called her Tethismine since they had been weyrlings.
I don't think it is me. Maybe he doesn't like the idea of His being so excited over a flit. She reached out to stroke the green-gold egg. "Do you mind if I lay a bit of claim to this one, L'pin? I have a friend of mine just recently come to the Weyr. She's been fretting a bit, anxious because of the new location, I think. She's a Harper." she didn't really want to say too much more. The teal-eyed young woamn grinned at L'pin. "I already have my Wave. Even if he's not exactly the stick-around type except at dinner time." Her calloused hands tucked the sand in closer to them. "This is almost as exciting as surfing." her eyes were joyful, childishly gleaming.
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:48 pm
Shamth took a step forward, a grumble in his throat, as L'pin continued to ignore his presence and focus on the eggs. The Blue was reaching the very end, past the tail end even, of the patience he could share with others. He didn't mind at first how they had been out here with someone else, it didn't please him but at least L'pin was left alone generally, but now the the arrival of eggs and the close nature of the pair. . .he was irritated.
And Tethis was semi-wrong, for it was not the flit that he was being upset over - it indeed was her. He'd worry over the sharded egg later. Still, Lpin did nothing even as he felt the thoughts rumble, he took them in stride at the moment as the usual grumbling.
"I'll take this one then, the blue and golden tan. I've always wanted one of these and I'm sure that Shamth could use something else to complain about other than my current company. Which he knows I do not approve of."
The last line was spoken flatly, and right away Shamth took a step back and lowered his head, eyes turning a yellowish color. He'd been scolded, L'pin had finally had enough.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:11 am
Feylith's eyes flared to an almost crimson red, but he didn't move forward. Still, his body was braced and he was fully prepared to fling himself on the other blue should he make another unwise step toward HisTethisHis. Still, the words of the other rider and the calm that TethisHis was trying to send him- hard when his anxious rage was beating at her mind like a drum- and the fact that Shamth took a step back, looking chastised, made the dragon relax, however little, eyes going from a violent red to a dull orange color.
Tethis decided to pretend she hadn't noticed that the dragon had needed to be scolded, and that it wasn't disconcerting at all to think about a dragon being angry at her. Her tanned hands were shaking, though, with the heat of Feylith's previous anger still running in her blood and she thrust them into the sand to make it less noticeable. "Should we take bets on what color your egg will be, then?" she tried to make the words sound teasing, though to her own ears they sounded more businesslike.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:58 pm
"With my luck, probably a Green. Something that'll be very fertile and cause me endless headaches when I try and find the clutches it will leave behind."
L'pin was looking at Tethis's hands, not the eggs, though he could pass it off easier since she seemed to be touching one of them still. While it was clear Shamth had scared her, or the rush of her dragon's emotions still filled her body, it didn't really concern him. She would have to learn to control herself better as well, to not let the emotions of her dragon cloud her judgments, for if L'pin reacted each time Shamth felt rage, he probably would be considered a murder by now.
"I really would like a Blue though, so I could brag that I have two of the prettiest blues in the Weyr. The coloring of the shell doesn't say much, we both should know that by now, but the size is a different story."
L'pin turned his head back at Shamth, who had his own lowered down and his wings shifted slightly on his back. He looked pathetic, truly, and as L'pin offered him a soft smile the large blue released a croon that reminded him of the sounds hatchlings made...only a lot deeper.
Mine, Your Shamth is sorry.
It's fine, you know that. I don't really care what you do, so long as you don't crush any of these eggs.
It was sad to think the male rider valued the eggs over the safety of the Girl, but despite his kind manners he still was a male rider of Telgar, and she was a young child in his eyes.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:53 pm
She couldn't stop the small grin, but concealed it quickly. Feylith seemed to calm, leaning in to nose her hair and blow his breath over the eggs. They really are pretty, Tethismine. Should we take them home now? And give them to those who will care for them?
"Feylith says we should probably take the eggs to the Weyr." she said finally. She couldn't call the place home, not yet. "Should we call it a day then, and come back surfing some other time?" She gave him a small smile, but most of the friendliness and the way she'd reached out to him earlier was gone, dulled by the situation.
She would be eighteen turns soon, she reflected as she pushed to her feet. Why did she feel so much older, sometimes, and yet like she wasn't old enough at others? Once we've given the flit egg to Jada, would you like to come back out here with me, Feylith? She reached up, scratching the blue's eyeridge. Just us this time, and the water?
You won't be unhappy, without company?
No. This time, we'll play in the water, and I'll give you a good scrubbing.
The dragon looked at her with blue-green eyes full of pleasure. I like having you to myself.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:24 pm
"Are you in that much of a hurry to get away from me now?"
L'pin chuckled as he picked up the blue and golden-tan egg, holding it close to his body to keep it warm, and the heat that had been clinging to it from the sands seemed to wash over his chest as the egg quivered. These were probably close to hatching, maybe less than a sevenday, so bringing them back to the Weyr now seemed like a great idea. He had a bag attached to his gear that he could fill with sand to transport the egg home in, keeping it warm during the brief cold of between.
"Still, I probably should get back. Shamth is in need of a good oiling down, and I probably should bathe - you got us right from the working grounds, after all."
He knew that his welcome had been overplayed, and that this girl most likely wouldn't come to seek him out in the future for little endeavors such as this. It suited him just fine to be left alone with Shamth, the latter preferring it always that way, but for some reason or another it always felt a little...lonely.
But only at first.
"Are you going to go straight back, or are you dropping the eggs of to those people you mentioned?"
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