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Post by Tenma on Apr 30, 2006 14:46:52 GMT -5
"Nope." Miya said simply and looked at Reinath with a smirk.
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Post by Dragon on Apr 30, 2006 14:50:23 GMT -5
Dicer's glance turned into a glare. "Well if not 'I' have work to do", he said to her, putting emphasis on I as if to say he were hard at work while she was doing nothing. Needless to say Dicer was annoyed at the fact that she had no valid reason for looking him over.
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Post by Tenma on Apr 30, 2006 14:54:40 GMT -5
"Have fun." Miya said in an uncaring voice.
((Sorry for the short posts.))
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Post by Spirithawk on Apr 30, 2006 14:54:59 GMT -5
Christae smiled and went to a piece of hide that she had brought with her. "Those of you who were here on time will receive marks to spend at the upcoming Gather. Dicer, K'dan, you will be docked a couple of marks since this is technically punishment for that fight."
"Miya, come look at this. See the dark coloration of the sand? This means that it is dirty. Queens don't like dirty sand. We will rake this top layer out of the middle of the cavern. The Queens usually clutch in the middle or over here near the far wall so that they can lay around them and protect them. A brooding queen is EXTREMELY protective over her clutch."
She turned to Jakel. "You may begin picking up trash now. The others who come later will simply be docked marks." She returned to what she had been teaching the younger goldrider. "Queens do not allow anyone on the sands while she is clutching. The only ones she will allow near the eggs are her mate and her bonded. Sometimes she doesn't even let her mate come near."
"Some Queens hide the fact that they have clutched for days before they tell their bonded. Queens clutch a few weeks after their flight. The exact date depends on the Queen. We can't put a lot of sand here because there will be too much to heat. Cooled eggs do not hatch. We don't want to cause an egg to develop in the wrong way and not hatch because we didn't put the sand correctly."
"Queens brood over their eggs for several sevendays. Usually the clutchmother will allow the Candidates to touch her eggs about a sevenday before the Hatching. She is always present when anyone is in the Hatching Grounds and if anyone is caught in there while she is away she is likely to tear them apart."
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Post by Dragon on Apr 30, 2006 15:04:57 GMT -5
Dicer did not respond to Miya but to the Weyrwoman's comment he said in general, "I don't care". Which was the truth, Dicer could care less if he was docked marks for beating up K'dan.
K'dan responded in a much more caring tone, "I understand Weyrwoman". He continued to pick up trash with Nike.
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Post by Tenma on Apr 30, 2006 16:51:12 GMT -5
Miya listened. Everytime a queen was mentioned she glanced at Reinath. "I have a question." She asked. Normally she had her stuck up attitude but when it came to learning about her best friend in the world, she wanted to make sure everything was right.
"First of all, I am assuming that dragons have no problems clutching, I mean if they aren't going to tell their bonded. Like it doesn't hurt of she won't accidently crushed one?" She asked curiously. "Secondly, how exactly could she hide it? Wouldn't the queenrider realize that their bonded is sitting over a bunch of eggs?"
She turned to look at Dicer once again. "He obviously didn't care much about anything, though there obviously had to be something he did care about. Like Miya cared about her dragon. Knowing that she could be kicked out and deprived of the chance of standing at the hatching was what had kept her decent as a candidate. And from then on she kept her attitude on line in fear of them sending her away. What would she do then? She couldn't keep Reinath at home, no the queen was large to big. Much different then Ruth had been. And she doesn't want to be transferred. The other weyrleaders were being insane at the meeting. It drove her nuts. Besides, believe it or not, and sometimes she didn't believe it, she liked her home.
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Jakel nodded in agreement to the Weyrwoman's orders. He immediantly began picking up trash. Just standing on the Hatching Sands made him excited. He felt that the faster he picked up the trash, the faster he would get his very own dragon.
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Post by Spirithawk on Apr 30, 2006 19:11:24 GMT -5
"If Reinath hasn't started doing it now, she will later. Sometimes Queens go off by themselves for long periods of time. There has never been any record of a Queen having trouble with clutching but there is always a first time so we can't be too careful. Dragons can block things from their riders just as riders can block things from their dragons. Usually when a dragon clutches her rider feels faint contractions."
"It will be rather disconcerting to feel the contractions if you were never pregnant." Christae smiled. She knew all about contractions. "It was strange to me when Kaith first clutched because I hadn't given birth to Chiron yet." Christae was pleased that the girl was at least interested in learning about her dragon.
"Queens NEVER harm their own eggs. They are extremely careful when they are clutching. Riders feel unpleasantness when a gold clutches. Golds feel contractions, just like humans. It is a bit easier for a gold to clutch than it is for a human to give birth. Anything else you want to know?"
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Post by Tenma on Apr 30, 2006 19:16:03 GMT -5
Miya thought for a moment. "Yeah. How can you be picky about sand?"
((Short.))
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Post by Spirithawk on Apr 30, 2006 19:21:18 GMT -5
"They just are. " Christae laughed. "They don't like the feel of coarse sand on their hides. Most queens will wallow in several feet of sand until they find the type they want on their Hatching Grounds. In fact, you will be coming with Kaith and I when we go to pick out the sand. We will fly straight because you haven't learned to go between yet unless you would rather we wait until you learn. It isn't a far flight from here to where we need to go."
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Post by Tenma on Apr 30, 2006 19:26:19 GMT -5
"Flying fine." Miya nodded. She placed a hand on Reinath's hide. Finally, there were doing someting that the others wouldn't be doing.
Then again, becuase we are doing something they aren't, they are doing something we aren't doing. Reinath stated.
Miya furrowed her brow and thought for a moment. ~I liked you better when you weren't smart.~ Miya fake pouted.
Reinath snorted with laughter, and Miya had to try not to burst out laughing. She couldn't beleive she just fake pouted. Maybe dragons really did change one.
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Post by Spirithawk on May 2, 2006 19:39:12 GMT -5
"Ok then." Christae told her. "I will make arrangemtns for us to go this afternoon. You will be excused from W'ling lessons for today and so will the other bronzeriders. They need to learn how to please their Queens."
(Bleh...short my brain is on a hunger strike)
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Post by Torva Anian on May 2, 2006 19:45:23 GMT -5
A little boy would wander the halls of the weyr and happen near the sands. He peered in and saw quite a few people working with some sand and almost passed it ut then heard Nice Voice. He stuck his head in further and spotted her. He looked around to make sure no one was watching then slipped into the room. At the moment no one was at that particular part of the stands. He lifted his foot and looked down as the sand was a little warmer than it should have been. He moved further from the middle so as to make himself fill a little more secure.
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Post by Spirithawk on May 2, 2006 20:17:23 GMT -5
Kaith sounded amused when she spoke to her rider. You will never guess who just walked into the cavern.
Christae looked up. "Well, if it isn't our little guest. May I ask your name little one?" She said in a sweet voice.
She felt Kaith look through her eyes to see what was going on.
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Post by ari on May 2, 2006 20:18:56 GMT -5
Naree ran towards the Sands. He had seen the sign after sleeping late and was now running and hoping that he wasn't late. As he arrived he found that his hopes were in vain. Many people were working and trying to clean up the sands. Hoping to have his lateness go unnoticed he hurried and started to work cleaning up the sands mimicking what the others were doing.
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Post by Torva Anian on May 2, 2006 20:26:15 GMT -5
The boy looked up as Nice Voice spoke to him. He looked around to make sure others weren't coming near then focused on what she had said. "Kinest" His voice rasped as if he had not used it often recently, which was true for usually he rarely spoke going days at a time without speaking. In some of the weyrs he had actually stayed hidden for days before emerging from where ever he had been hidden for food. That was one of the reasons why he stayed so thin.
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Post by Spirithawk on May 2, 2006 21:43:29 GMT -5
"I am glad that you decided to come here Kinest. Would you like some breakfast?" She could either call a drudge or go herself. The workers could work by themselves for a while. She noted the entrance of Naree and marked something down on her parchment.
"I am called Christae. I ride the big golden dragon that sits on the fireheights or on the big ledge." Her voice was sweet, reassuring. She wanted the boy to become used to people. Perhaps he could stand as a Candidate for Kaith's future clutch.
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Post by Tenma on May 3, 2006 7:13:25 GMT -5
Reinath stood up tall. I like that idea. Reinath gave a dragonic smirk.
Miya sighed. She noticed a little boy wander onto the sands. ~Who is he?~ She asked her gold.
I don't know. I have never seen him. He is so much younger then the others. Is he a weyrbrat? Or would he actually be a candidate? He must be new. Reinath revealed most of her thoughts.
~You talk a lot.~ Miya said simply, and strode over to where Christae was. "Who are you?" She asked smugly.
Reinath trotted to Miya's side. Her many faceted eyes peered down with interest at the little boy.
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Post by Torva Anian on May 3, 2006 8:40:11 GMT -5
The boy nodded at Christae's words of food then looked towards the dragon. He of course couldn't see it but he remembered seeing it the one time as he had landed off the blue. It was almost a angelic picture for he superimposed the golden dragon as background to nice... Christae. He looked around at the different people then backed up as someone else strode forward.
He looked down and saw a miniture version of gold dragon beside the person and looked back to Christae confused. Her dragon was much bigger and hadn't followed other people around. He looked back to it as it worked through his mind that this was a different creature altogether. He looked up to the girl that had accompanied it. Her face had a characteristic emotion of something he had seen many years ago but remembered on an instinctual level. He didn't like seeing it again for it reminded him of things he had tried to push out of his mind. Again he was pushed to wanting to run but he didn't know who to run to. He had already found out earlier into places got you hurt. He looked towards Christae but she had allowed Nike to hurt him. He looked around and spotted the only other familiar face and ran to it...K'dan.
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Post by Spirithawk on May 3, 2006 8:42:20 GMT -5
((Reinath would be very big at the time...she wouldnt trot in the Hatching Cavern...the caverns are big..but not that big))
Christae looked a bit annoyed. "He is new here Miya." She spoke in an undertone to the younger goldrider. "He is very shy of people. Get Reinath away before she scares him off and I can't tame him. We think he was mistreated at the weyr he came from. Please don't scare him more than he already is."
Kaith spoke to Kinest to distract him from the two goldriders. Welcome little one. We are happy to see that you are feeling better. Kaith's voice was gentle.
"Learn to be diplomatic Miya. As Queenriders we are the diplomats of Pern. You must learn to read others body language and tone of voice and learn how to deal with them. Otherwise we will never get anything done, especially with the Red Star coming ever closer. Learn your lessons well Miya."
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Post by Tenma on May 3, 2006 9:19:55 GMT -5
((Oh, ok.))
Hello. Do not be scared. The scariest one here is Christae. Reinath strictly kept these words away from Kaith and Christae.
Miya couldn't help but smile and Reinath's words. "She is right." Miya told the boy, but made sure not to hint to Christae what the dragon had said.
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