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 Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:28 pm
A Benden rider, Eltimioth said smugly, pleased at the reception of 'her' news as she landed back where they'd left their riders. Impressed in the egg, they said, so Hers broke her out. Imagine if she hadn't been able to! Would Benden really have been better off with a dragonless, broken Candidate? There were probably some who thought so...
"I thought there wasn't anyone Eltimioth hadn't told by now!" E'lai protested. Perhaps she had managed to be more circumspect than he'd realized she was capable of. "But yes, we found out from a Benden rider while out looking for Mystweed recently, so it's only a matter of time before everyone knows. I just hope the atmosphere at Benden does change, or else the poor crimson might be better off transferring Weyrs." If they managed to ruin a second crimson, surely even the other Old Weyrs would start putting their foots down.
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:52 pm
From an actual Benden rider, huh? Considering that he doubted they would ever joke on such a matter, the information seemed legitimate enough. That is very fortunate, for both the crimson and Hers, he replied, touching down next to His. With all of this talk of Benden, he couldn't help but be reminded of that strange bronze. He was likely cooing over the latest batch of dragonets as he had done with them. Would he be softer toward the young crimson than the rest of the Benden lot?
"Well I haven't spoken to Eltimioth before today," she reminded him, amused by the greenrider's defensiveness on the matter. "But hey, if it's a crimsonrider pair they'll likely be able to tough it out. They're usually pretty fiesty, right?" Not always of course, as she had a crimsonrider friend who would melt into the walls if he could, but the rest that she had seen seemed pretty strong-willed.
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:01 pm
"I'm sure they both have spirit," E'lai agreed. "Besides, a clutching dragon is a clutching dragon--well, if they'd even deign to let her try. Still, it proves Benden's got one way out of this beyond Mystweed..." And if the Benden riders were having as little luck with finding the plant as he and the other Trine riders he'd spoken to had been having...well, they might want to encourage that crimson to become a breeder after all.
Fortunate indeed, even if their Weyr may not think so. They will learn. Eltimioth seemed quite unconcerned about it; given a living example she was sure Benden would overcome their strange mental difficulties in accepting the atypical dragons.
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:21 pm
"If the Mystweed is affecting fertility, I don't think a crimson would do well as a clutching dragon," G'brel pointed out as she clibedback onto her partner's back. After all, even the breeding crimsons at Trine and Malvren were hardly able to clutch. "Still though, it's definitely a start. Shall we?" It wold be best not to waste too much of their search time.
I would certainly hope so. If the older Weyrs softened on their views toward the Atpicals, it would help to alleviate a lot of the political tension between the Weyrs-- even if not all of it. And less distance between dragons and there riders was definitely a good thing in the blue's mind.
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:40 pm
"True enough," E'lai admitted ruefully. And he knew why even Trine riders were searching for Mystweed, ostensibly on behalf of the Old Weyrs in the north--because if the northerners found it and were able to reacclimate it to their climate first, Trine missed out on an opportunity to hold something (more?) over the Old Weyrs... "Let's go."
[fin?]
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