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Post by meah on Jul 30, 2008 2:40:17 GMT -5
Rhea danced back and forth, jumping from one foot to the other. She was standing outside the area where most of the dragonriders' weyrs were, as she needed someone to take her to the gather.
She'd tried to board the ferry and had been gently but firmly told that she was on the list of those who needed to be taken by a rider because she was too young to go on her own. Then one of the sailers had been kind enough to walk her down the gangplank with his arm around her waist to keep her from falling. That was when she'd decided that she really ought to go find a rider to actually take her.
Here she stood, outside the riders' weyrs, staring at each of them in turn. She was going to ask the first rider to walk out with his dragon. Obviously, any rider who was leaving his weyr was planning on going to the gather, and any of them would want to take her with them. She could even ride on a dragon.
The prospect of riding a dragon was so exciting to her that she started jumping up and down anxiously, looking around and nearly giving herself whiplash trying to see if there were any riders coming. She had always wanted to ride on a dragon, which was why she had become a candidate in the first lace. She couldn't wait to ride a dragon to the gather.
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Post by .K.aci on Jul 31, 2008 14:33:11 GMT -5
//\\-snickers- I couldn't remember where you posted. -dies-
//Mine...
--No.
//Please?
--Lemme think... NO.
//MMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEE.........
--No.
//Humph!
"Oh, stop whining. I refuse to go!"[/b]
Surprisingly, the admonish was very very stern, and Mosawyth reeled back for a moment, the great head snaking backwards as she eyed Hers.
//I wish to go to the Gather, Mine.
--Then go!
//I want to see all the people, with you.
This last bit cracked at the shell of Toni, something that Mosawyth had been doing for about four hours now. Even as the large Green spoke, Toni frowned at her, feeling the firm no crack every passing second.
//Please Mine? I am sorry that I ignored you when the Weyrlings were greeting you.
And that was what it all came down to. Toni had not been noticed as the old Weyrwoman's daughter, but she was older, with a dragon now. Of course, Wyth was almost two turns, just reaching maturity. Indeed, any day now Toni expected the Green to rise, and she feared any day of it. If it happened she would be in the lust induced from a dragon, and Toni was terrified of males... Especially those with Bronze's and Brown's and Blue's.
But anyway, Toni had been mad at Wyth since her dragon had decided that Toni was too afraid. So the dragon had ignored her, leaving her to be mercisly attacked by two Sr. Weyrlings. Well, she hadn't been attacked... But they had scared her!
//Tonimine...
The moss green head came down to nudge Toni lightly, where she had been sitting on the ledge they had been given.
//I am sorry... I love you very much, but you do need new things for Thread, and I would like to meet some of the dragons.
"Dearheart... Must I?"[/b]
Her hands wrapped around as much of the head as she could managed, belaying the fear that she felt as she knew she would give in. Despite knowing, Wyth showed a side of her that only Toni knew, gently nuzzling Her's and telling her softly,
//I promise I will never not be there. I will pay attention to you always, and if even one person scares you I will come in and eat them.
The gentle admonish made Toni giggle, and the red-headed girl rose, sighing.
"Alright, dear one. I'll meet you down infront of the Weyr, I have to grab some stuff then."
With a pleased expression, the beautiful Green fluttered down to land outside the Weyr, turning her head towards the little girl that was so eagerly looking for someone. Of course, Mosawyth being the curious Green she was,
//Little thing, what are you doing?[/i]
Just as Toni walked down the steps to burst outside. In a riding jacket and a helmet, she looked over at the Green confused. Moreso than other dragons, Wyth spoke to other humans, and the little girl would just be in a line of others.
--Wyth, what are you doing?
//Asking her what she is doing.
--Oh.
"M-m-mosawyth, leave the l-l-little thing alone. D-d-don't scare h-her."[/b]
Her stutter that was always present when she spoke to someone else was not as pronounced - the girl couldn't have been 13 - was loud enough for the girl to hear as Toni grew even with them.
"C-c-can I help y-you?"[/size]
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Post by meah on Aug 2, 2008 0:06:56 GMT -5
Rhea smiled at the woman who has spoken. This woman would be her ticket out of here, and her dragon was so beautiful. She looked into the woman's eyes, and grinned at her. She then turned her attention to the woman's beautiful green dragon.
"Will you take me to the gather with you?"
She addressed not the rider but the dragon, who seemed to be the more dominating of the two. Besides, she would be riding this beautiful creature, and so it was only natural that she would address the moss-coloured wonder.
((sorry it's so awful >.<))
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Post by .K.aci on Aug 4, 2008 16:44:27 GMT -5
A little startled at how eager the girl-child-thing seemed, Toni blinked once as she met her eyes, and then turned to Mosawyth...
'Will you take me to the gather with you?'
Well, that was interesting. She just spoke to her dragon, and not her. Wyth began to rumble in amusement, while Toni's lips pursed and she rose one slim eyebrow.
//Little thing, while it would be taking you to the gather, the Queen's rules do state that you must be with the rider the whole time, so perhaps asking Toni mine if she will stay with you at the gather would be also a good thing. If she agree's, indeed, I would love to take you to the gather.
[/b]
Mosawyth broad-casted this to both Toni and the little girl, and Toni couldn't help but snickering to herself at Mosawyth's holier-than-thou response to such a thing.[/size]
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Post by meah on Aug 4, 2008 22:58:30 GMT -5
Rhea winced. The dragon's voice was so loud in her head. She nodded to her and turned to face the woman who rode the beautiful dragon. "Excuse me, Miss...will you take me to the gather with you and your beautiful dragon?"
She gave her best puppy-dog eyes to the woman, hoping to spend more time with the magnificent creature who she had briefly heard. She could only imagine how wonderful it would be to have such an amazing companion all the time.
When she got to the gather, she wasn't even sure she would go shopping anymore. It wasn't like she had two marks to rub together anyway. She wanted to spend as much time with the dragon as she could. Maybe she would find out what it was like to have a dragon, a little bit.
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Post by .K.aci on Aug 5, 2008 21:19:48 GMT -5
Mosawyth, rather smug that the girl listened so easily, murmured to Her's,
//Now really, Tonimine, if you were just as nice to me as that girl is...
Toni ignored her dragon.
'Excuse me, Miss...will you take me to the gather with you and your beautiful dragon?'
Toni sort-of smiled at the girl, still wondering weather or not she wanted to, weather or not she had enough marks for everything the little girl ooed and ahhed at...
//Come Mine, take the girl. It shall be fun, you will see.
And then, to the girl,
//Of course she will, won't you, Mine?
Again, roped into something by the obnoxious Green.
"Certainly."
With a graceful smile, the woman walked over to Wyth and patted her on the shoulder.
"Here, you will wear this helmet, and you will wear this jacket..."
Used to the Between of cold, she knew this girl wouldn't be... Plus, it was a warm day and she would warm up faster than the stick of a child.
"Come here, let me boost you up."
It was a good thing she had alreayd put on the dragon's harness instead of ignoring it as she usually did. The older rider's were supposed to wear them for a while as a good example to the Weyrlings, and Toni, as always, followed the rules.
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Post by meah on Aug 6, 2008 1:13:12 GMT -5
Rhea smiled gladly up at the woman. She was so excited. She was going to get to ride on a real dragon. She smiled giddily and pulled on the garments the woman offered to her. After all, who knew better what was needed to be safe on a dragon than a dragon rider. Rhea could only hope to know that much about dragons.
"Come here, let me boost you up."
Rhea nodded. "Thank you so much. She's so pretty."
With the woman's help, she climbed onto the dragon, and was excited to find that it was even more amazing than she had thought. To be seated astride such a beautiful dragon was one of the greatest things she could ever think of, and this was beyond what she had imagined.
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Post by .K.aci on Aug 6, 2008 15:22:47 GMT -5
Toni was slightly amused at the over-sized look on the child, as though she was playing in her mother's clothes, but moved on as was her way.
'Thank you so much. She's so pretty.'
"Oh, for the love of Faranth, don't stroke her ego."
Even then, the smug feeling of the dragon made her roll her eyes.
//See Mine? I am pretty.
--Yes yes, we know you are pretty, yada yada. Stop letting it go to that overgrown head.
With a sniff, the dragon swung her head around the other way, ignoring Toni. Picking her up easily and depositing the child on the back of the dragon, Toni checked her riding straps first, until a gentle chiding came into her mind.
//Come come, we are fine! We are no longer Weyrlings, and you will not fall.
With a roll of her eyes (they were barely out of Weyrlinghood!) Toni easily mounted her with the smooth grace of millions of tries, and up into the air they went, Toni wrapping her arms around the girl protectivly.
"Between."
And in a flash they were Between, and in the time to cough thrice they were bursting back out over the grassy field, Mosawyth bugling her arrival proudly.
--Oh, hush.
The crabby thought went ignored, and she backsweeped easily, touching down feather-light gracefully. Her dragon did have grace, if nothing else, Toni admitted to herself.
"Alrighty!"
Lifting the child off, she vaulted off herself, removing the helmet with nimble fingers.
"Just throw the jacket over her..."
And now resigned to her fate...
"Where do you want to go first?"
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