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He could practically feel his skin frying, his hair collecting sweat and likely beginning to frazzle a little under the heated conditions. He can only be thankful that it's somewhat short, and lament that it's not long enough to pull back away from his neck. Still, Fenferari never complained about his lot and he wasn't about to start now. The ground needed to be cleared of green.

Digging his fingers in deep, the boy did his best to make sure he got all of the wormy little roots before pulling the plant out. He was filthy all over. Before lunch came, he'd fancy himself a dip into the boy's communal bath back in the Weyr. But this was far beyond some of the other chores he had been assigned thusfar. Tedious, but undifficult, the only trying part of it being the sweltering heat. He didn't glance up at the dragons flying overhead more than once, but he thought of them as he worked. And when the music started, he perked some, shaken out of the daze the calming task had put him into.

Blue-gray eyes landed Weiwin, watching her for a moment as she worked. Not music, he corrected himself. Humming. Fenferari turned his head back to his work, a small smile touching his features. That was nice, he thought, to have something to work to, getting the joke. Although he was normally a quiet individual, he found himself joining in with her, accompanying with soft tenor notes.

Ariaen silently worked, pulling at the weeds. She wasn't happy with being out in the backing sun doing this, but it got her away from most of the other weyrbrats. Especially the girls. She looked silently as Weiwin and Fenferari hummed. The boy was good looking, she supposed, but like everything else, it wasn't like she would actually get a boy to like her or anything.

Her temper usually got in the way before anything could form.

She watched as the girl fainted. "Damnit..." she muttered before slowly crawling over to her. Ari wiped the girl's finger of blood with an extra cloth, making sure to not rip it open further. She took out a small bandage from the pack on her hip and wound it around the wound. She then took out an herb known for waking people up from faintings and crushed it up in her hand.

"I don't know why I'm doing this..." she muttered again, holding her hand at Weiwin's nose.

Ariaen moved back, placing the remnants of the herbs in her back. She eyed the girl indifferently, trying to not scowl. "It wasn't like stick boy over there was doing anything. You could have gotten something much worse being passed out in this sharding heat." Ari grumbled a bit before moving back to her patch of green.

Now everyone could go back to ignoring her. That would be good.

She glanced up as feet came back. It was stick boy... where'd he go off to? Not that it mattered much to Ari. The smile he gave her was quite different, and it threw her off guard for a moment. He smiled at her? Did he not know her reputation with the weyrbrat and candidate girls? She was, for the lack of a better term, a b***h, and every one knew it.

Except for these two.

Ariaen gave him a curt nod in reply and turned back to her earth. People were being nice to her... Shards, next thing you'd see her on the back of a dragon as a rider.

What was Pern coming to?

Ariaen sighed again and shook her head. That girl looked like such a space case. The green eyed girl turned back to her work and concentrated on getting the green up. Still, it was kind of nice to know that someone owned her something. She wasn't sure exactly what she'd do with that power, but it was nice to have regardless.

The girl asked his name, which was a bit of a surprise to him, but certainly not unpleasant. "I'm Fenferari," He told her with a small smile, not at all shy like his silence may have suggested. "You're welcome. Just take it a bit easier now, hm? A pair of gloves may suit you for the next time, if I may say so."

He came back to rest in a new spot, between the two girls. Perhaps that was a little bold, but he was a little in need of friends right now, or just a positive presence. Ever since he'd been here, it felt like he was only being yelled at or bossed around. His roommate was no pocket of sunshine either.

"You..." He turned his head slightly toward Ariaen as he put his hands back in the dirt, "Are you a healer?"

She took her first tentative stab into the mashed earth, not that it was that much of a feat considering there was a whole chain gang at work around her. They were all just missing matching clothes and a song. Well, Weiwin wasn’t in the mood or position to start up again with her humming – Fen had moved up to create a nice row of characters (two no-speakies and a saucy one). To Weiwin's surprise, however, the three of them seemed to be forming a fine group. Time would tell whether or not actual lasting friendships would form, not that Weiwin was particularly on the market for such. She liked to keep her own council, at least on the important matters, after all. Instead, she just contented herself to listen to the saucy one and Fen. Not that they had much to talk about: life? the weather? It was, however, comforting to know that she was next to two potential healers.

Aside from the pleasantries floating in the humid air, Weiwin thought it at least a little intriguing to watch the other girl in this traveling trio of weeders (coming soon to a hold near you). Weiwin imagined that she wasn’t quite so different from her; so, she ignored the girl. She would work on finding her name out later. Instead, she casually asked “Who is heading to the kitchen after this?”

Noon was just about come, and it might even be that the leader of the work release program could call time before anyone decided to answer.