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It was a nice day, with the sun shining warmly down on the Weyr and a gentle breeze to fend off high temperatures. It was warm, but not overly so. Being both a weyrbrat, and a candidate, Kella sometimes felt like she got saddled with more chores than anyone else. She'd tell anyone who would listen that she was overworked! But today was an exception. Her chores for the morning had been unusually light, and the young girl was in a rare, friendly mood.

Her foster mother had even let her skip out on her last chore of the morning! Kella abhorred gutting fish, and one simpering look to her compassionate foster mother was all it took. The young girl was sent scampering out into the Bowl with a basket-full of fresh lunch. Kella chose a prime spot, one she knew would be shaded within an hour or so, but was bright and sunny for the time being. After spreading a thin blanket on the ground (her foster mother had insisted that Kella not dirty her new shorts!) the young girl sat cross-legged and pulled the basket onto her lap. "Woooow," she said appreciatively as she peered inside. There were a couple sandwiches, some fresh fruit, and a sealed container of cooled fruit juice. Kella opened it and drank some quickly; she knew it wouldn't stay cold for long!

Moving the basket off of her lap, Kella drew out a sandwich and smiling, took a bite. She stretched her legs out on the blanket, leaning back on one arm while holding her sandwich with the other. Today was gonna be a good day!

Kella was just sitting by herself, minding her own business, eating a sandwich. The young girl, for once, was not bothering, pestering, or complaining to anyone. Her sandwich was absolutely delicious, the crisp lettuce and juicy tomatoes offsetting the richly spiced meat. She wasn't entirely surprised when a brown firelizard zipped by, chattering at her as though she should've offered him some sandwich. "Well, it's mine," Kella said childishly, knowing that there were more sandwiches in the basket beside her.

Then the 'lizard left her company. Kella watched him as he returned to his person, a girl who looked vaguely familiar. I've probably seen her around the Weyr sometime, Kella assumed with a shrug. Kella knew quite a few of the Weyr residents by sight, if not by name. She was usually doing the odd-jobs; running messages or deliveries, retrieving things from the storerooms, cleaning up the lower caverns after a meal~ things of that sort.

Only because Kella was in such an exceptionally good mood did she wave the girl over. With a mouthful of sandwich, though, she refrained from verbally greeting her. For now, a waggle of fingers would have to suffice.

Riyinn gave a small grown when Kir got the girls attention she didn't know the girl by name she had seen her around. Slowly she walked over to hear a "Thud" Looking around she seen a boy face full of dirt and sand. She held back a snicker when she noticed it was Kirs fault. He cocked his head eyes whirling with curiosity and bolted towards the boy doing circles.

"Are you ok?" She yelled in his direction hoping that Kir wasn't the cause of an accident and looked over at the girl and shruged.

Kella had lived at the Weyr her entire life, so she didn't quite understand why people found it difficult to adjust to the lifestyle here. She licked her fingertips to rid them of some dressing that had oozed out from the sandwich, and watched with some amusement as Lephas fell flat on his face. She snickered to herself, but hid the noise by looking down into the picnic basket for some of the fresh fruit packed away.

After retrieving the sliced, chilled fruit from the basket, Kella looked up to find both the boy and the girl closer to her than they had been before. She cleared her throat uncomfortably and looked at the blanket spread on the ground. There was more than enough room for them all... but Kella was reluctant to share both her space and her lunch, packed by her mother with love. The young girl frowned, sighed, then gestured to the blanket. "C'mon, you can both sit if ya want. There's some sandwiches and stuff in the basket if you're hungry," she offered with a shrug, looking back and forth between Lephas and Riyinn.

"Kella," she introduced herself brusquely with a mouthful of fruit. She would have stuck out her hand for handshakes, but her fingers were all sticky with the juices from the fruit. So she offered up a little smile, then returned to stuffing her face.

"Thank you for the offer, but I've already eaten," replied Lehpas. "I wouldn't mind joining you though." Having grown up with an all female family, Lehpas was not shy at all when talking to girls he didn't know. He settled himself on the blanket keeping an eye on the firelizard in Riyinn's lap.

"And I'm so glad to meet your firelizard." Lehpas leaned forward to look at the brown flitter. "May I pet him? I've never seen one this close before."

Riyinn opened her mouth then shut it, "around new people i guess, the hold is so strange to him." She caressed his head while staring at the two.

"he shouldn't bite you at least i would hope he wouldn't." She smiled at Lehpas, "hes normally good mannered maybe all the dragons are bothering him?" Suddenly she was no longer that hungry first people she really met and Kir had to go and be a pest. She shook her head when Kella offered her a bites. She glared at the brown in her lap for a few moments before given a defeated sigh.

"i come from a small off land hold basically hes only seen family and never a dragon till it showed up to search me. But he just wouldn't stay at home given that he likes me i guess."

Kella was still wary around the brown 'lizard, despite Riyinn's reassurances. She eyed him with pursed lips and and pinched expression, but after a few moments took her attention off of him. Her dark eyes met Lehpas' and she shook her head in answer to his question. "Nah, I don't. I really can't stand them," she said, shrugging again. She shot an apologetic look to Riyinn, but didn't really think the girl should be offended. Everyone should be allowed to have their own opinions, right? "Do you have any?" She asked Lephas in return, more to make conversation than out of genuine interest.

Kella cocked an eyebrow at Riyinn's words. Had the girl read her mind? The girl suddenly felt very uncomfortable in Riyinn's presence, and she frowned. "How'd you know I thought that?" She demanded to know, holding a piece of fruit halfway to her mouth. She glanced quickly to Lephas, did he know what she had thought to? "I didn't say that," Kella insisted, looking back to Riyinn accusingly. "How did you know that?" Her frown deepened and she set the piece of fruit down, her eyes fixated on Riyinn.