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"Kahlin..." His jaw sets as the boys eyes meet his and then drop away. God what the hell does one say to this? He doesn't even know what he's allowed to do about this...but there has to be something. "The hell did he go and do a thing like that for?" He growls, his tone clear that he's thinking about doing something that involves seeing how many of the mans own teeth he can fire down his throat...

"Oh vast improvement, now I just want to chop him up and feed him to something dumb enough not to notice the taste, instead of punting him outside in threadfall." He huffs, eyes flashing. Ruining a skin doesn't give him cause to take it out of yours..." He huffs again, eyes flashing as he reaches to lift Kahlin's chin with one hand. "Look, I don't know what I can do to help at the moment, but I don't see letting this stand. Just promise me you'll stand next time they go looking for candidates? At least then they'd put you in the candidate barracks..."
The blue's eyes flash orange in sympathetic anger and he rumbles deeply, sharing his rider's distaste and rage. He wishes the boy would stand up and hit the man himself, but that would probably just make matters worse.

He sat down on the bank again, picking up the half a meat pie he'd dropped and brushing it off, eating it without really tasting it. "Good." He says seriously. "I don't know what I can do that wouldn't make it worse at the moment, I'd have to find out..."

Jaiereth, still sombered by his riders mood, never the less perks up slightly, flipping his wings up and down lightly to bob the green flit up and down. Rikk chirps as he swoops back down, landing on the other wing to enjoy the ride.

"Yeah some help..." He sighed, leaning forward and putting his chin on his knees. "I don't feel terribly helpful."
You could feed me...that would be helpful... Jaiereth reminds, perking up with interest. Not all of us have lost our appetites.
"Well thats a thought..." He notes, outloud as he stands up to get the meat for his dragonete. "I'm going to feed Jaiereth before he withers away to nothing..."

"Well I guess what he doesn't know won't make me have to hurt him." He flashes his best jokers smile and pantomimes an punch in the air, and puts down the pack of meat, untying it as he earlier did the meat pies.
"I keep telling him that..." he nods toward the blue. "But he doesn't buy it. Then he makes rude comments on my weight." It's an effort to make Kahlin smile, if nothing else, if a clumsy one.

He dropped the bag of meat, to Jaiereths delight, as a splatter of cool water soaks him to the skin. "Oh was that a challenge?" He notes, raising one eyebrow and trying very hard not to grin as he stalks toward the water, working his boots off so they, at least, don't get a soaking. "I wouldn't be so sure about that...." He notes, wading in after him and using both hands to toss water at Kahlin.

To say Caleten was irritated would be an understatement. It seemed like forever that she was in the wryer and still she hadn't found the runnerbeast confines. With her arm fully healed, she gathered a few small bits of food from the kitchens and left the weyr to search its grounds in hopes of finding her runnerbeast. She told them until she went hoarse not to harm her beast, if they did they'd pay and dearly!

On her straight walk she spotted a puppy, the silly thing was chasing a tumblebug until it hid under a leaf. The puppy batted at the green leaf with a paw and found that more fun. Yipping with happiness, it batted now at the leaf having fun watching its movements in reaction to its own actions.

Caleten looked around, she saw nor heard anyone else about and felt free to delight in the puppy's actions. It looked so sweet yet rugged, for its medium length coat was covered in dirt and unkempt though she believed the puppy probably tried. She guessed its color was deep red or perhaps a lovely shade of black with what looked to be gray stripes. The tip of its tail, under belly, and areas around its face like below its muzzle and eye 'brows' as well as its chest are a dirty white and it had strikingly blue eyes. By the time she had noticed the puppy's eyes, it had noticed her.

With a growl, it ran into the nearest bush all the while keeping up its show of toughness. Undeterred, she walked over to the near by tree speaking with a softness she only used for animals, "Hello, sweet one, I am not going to harm you"

The puppy was unconvinced and barked to display that fact as if its growling didn't already.

Caleten just smiled softly and turned putting her back against the tree. Tilting her head to the right to save her eye from the sun's ray as it poked holes in the tree's shade. Then she began to hum a south hold traditional song in tune with a calm happy edge. In time, the puppy came closer and closer to where Caleten is.

To seal the deal, she took out the lunch she brought and placed a choice peace of meat on a napkin to her side to tempt the undoubtedly hungry puppy as she ate lightly at what she had left.

Food was ticket, the puppy ran up, its tail held high and wagging as it ate. Finishing its meal, the puppy looked up and barked asking for more. First, Caleten put out her hand, palm up, for it to sniff. Standing on its hind legs a moment he, the gender was clear from this action, put a paw on her wrist and sniffed her hand licking the tiny bits of food she hadn't gotten off of it yet. She giggled, his warm tongue tickled lightly. When he sat down, she gave him her last bits ignoring the slight hunger she had. The puppy decided he liked her and wagged his tail more when she began to pet and sing lightly to him. She would never make it as a Master Vocalist but her voice certainly wasn't bad and she could keep a tune.

The tough cold Caleten that had met Rayale, Kahlin, and Rin left only the pride she had in the now gentle, happy Caleten. Her whole demeanor had softened as she relaxed enjoying having a friend near. She named him dem'or.