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Post by Tenma on Aug 6, 2006 20:25:46 GMT -5
Throughout all of her wandering, Miya never really got back here. She had gone past the lower caverns and the kitchen, and was somewhat deep in a maze of passageways. On her right shoulder was Kalie, the spunky little green. On her left shoulder was Tonu, a more shy and laid back dragon. It was interesting how the little green commanded the larger brown, and he actually listened.
((This was a horrible first post. I really don't know what to say.))
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 6, 2006 20:34:18 GMT -5
T'rin was annoyedly following his fire-lizard. The little green had launched off his shoulder, and when he didn't follow, she'd circled around his head and hovered before the door. Then she'd darted out, and again, when he didn't follow, darted back in before he finally got the idea and started talking towards her. With that, she'd left again, and led him around several turns until he didn't quite know where he was.
From around the corner she'd just turned came a rather undignified-sounding squawk. He jogged around the corner to make sure she was alright, and nearly bowled over someone who was coming the other way. He skidded to a stop, and started to say, "I'm sorry" but stopped: it was Miya.
"Ah, hi," he said awkwardly. Micra was swirling around her head, excited about the other firelizards on her shoulders, but he called her in, and she grudgingly landed on his shoulder. "I was following Micra here. She wanted to play hide-and-seek, I think."
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Post by Tenma on Aug 7, 2006 10:04:10 GMT -5
Miya was not fast enough, but luckily, the oncoming man didn't collide with her. She glared angrily at whoever was in such a rush. I'm sorry. She heard a man's voice. Sorry, yeah, they should be sorry. She then gained her position and looked over to the one that almost knocked her over. Oh great, it was T'rin.
Tonu and Kalie chirped excitedly when they saw their old friend Micra. With T'rin going away and Miya slightly evading the bronze-rider, they hadn't met often. Kalie launched off first, chirping madly and circling around. Tonu followed his sister's example and began to chase her. The two chirped encouragement for Micra to play with them. Miya didn't really seem to notice.
"You should watch where you are going." She said simply as she looked at the fellow Weyrling. She really didn't know what to say, or what to do. "You ought to have better control over your fire-lizard." She commented as he explained that Micra was the one that brought him there.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 7, 2006 17:18:13 GMT -5
T'rin folded his arms. "So I should try and stop my fire-lizard from having fun?" ~You would say that,~ he thought silently. "She was just exploring the weyr, much as you were, and having me follow her." Micra was ignoring his irritation and circling in the air with Kalie and Tonu, chirruping and warbling happily.
"Listen, Miya, if I wanted to adopt your attitude about this, I could say it was your fault because your fire-lizards lured Micra and I thought she was in danger. But I'm not. It's really no big deal. I almost ran you over, and most people would just laugh it off." He shook his head, trying and failing to ignore his upsurge of frustration with the goldrider.
"What are you doing back here anyway? I thought we weren't really allowed back here."
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Post by Tenma on Aug 7, 2006 17:35:46 GMT -5
Miya huffed. "You won't act like me because that isn't you. Just like it isn't me to laugh things off. I may have told you I would try to change, but I am who I am." She snorted. Miya had changed. She had grown, but she was still the rude brat she was when she first arrived.
"I too am just exploring. I thought I saw something. But it obviously isn't here." Miya was not sure about the last sentence but she couldn't tell him the whole thing. Tonu had seen Decir with that new girl, Sorcha. Sorcha had been wandering these halls. Maybe Decir was somewhere around here.
"I...uh..." She tried to contact Reinath, but the gold was fast asleep. That would make a sharding bad excuse to say she had to go to Reinath. What if he asked Amparath to bespeak Reinath. She would be busted, and T'rin might be curious.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 7, 2006 17:41:25 GMT -5
"You only thought?" T'rin asked, feigning surprise that Miya wasn't absolutely positive about something. "Well, I suppose I could help you make sure. It would be a horrible thing to be wrong."
Just because she always speaks like that does not mean you have to, as well. But T'rin was rather upset with Miya for this reason as well as others, and he ignored Amparath.
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Post by Tenma on Aug 7, 2006 18:12:16 GMT -5
Miya shook her head. "No, that's okay. It was nothing." She said simply. She didn't want his help, not on this atleast. She had to draw him away from here, just in case. "So...want to walk a bit?" She asked in a bland voice.
((Ack that was terrible.))
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 7, 2006 20:19:33 GMT -5
((Lol, well mine didn't give you much to go on.. lemme see if I can do a little better..))
T'rin eyed Miya and wondered if she was hiding something. Normally she wouldn't have asked him to walk with her; she might not have even said anything, just left. He was suspicious, but he decided to say yes. He didn't have anything else to do, and Micra was having fun: she was swooping and darting around their heads with Tonu and Kalie, obviously glad for some playtime.
"Fine," he said, "I'll walk with you. But no leaving me in old back corridors, or hitting me over the head with old scrolls, or anything tricky like that." He couldn't help but grin. "But we could make dust angels in some of these passages, I bet."
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Post by Tenma on Aug 8, 2006 7:53:22 GMT -5
"I don't want to walk in the passages. Let's go outside." She explained and began to walk out of the passages. She stoppd and turned around. "Come on." Miya added.
Kalie darted forward in the direction MIya had started to walk. Tonu turned around and followed the green as he chirped happily. He darted at Micra, before flying after Kalie.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 8, 2006 13:25:09 GMT -5
"Well, alright, then," conceded T'rin. Would she ever make up her mind? "I guess I won't be able to make any dust angels today." The mock despair in his voice was heavy, and he sighed gustily. "I suppose I'll just have to be happy with the sun shining and cool breezes."
You're going to irritate her if you keep that up, Amparath cut in, before he could say more.
She's already irritated, and I think she deserves it.
T'rin looked around for the way out. "So, how do we get out of here?"
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Post by Tenma on Aug 8, 2006 18:07:21 GMT -5
"Follow the fire-lizards." She said simply, pointing to the direction the Kalie and Tonu had darted toward. "They are probably going to sun themselves, and didn't go between because they still want to play with Micra. Of course, this was all a guess. Miya was trying to sound like she knew this, but truthfully, she was just hoping she was right.
She started walking in that direction, knowing that T'rin would follow. It wasn't like he wanted to get stuck there, though he hoped that the two wouldn't get lost. Miya never had learned these back passages yet. "Are you guys still going to graduate?" Miya was referring to T'rin and Amaparath graduating from Weyrlinghood even though they had been gone for so long.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 8, 2006 18:59:15 GMT -5
"Well, we'll graduate eventually," T'rin said matter-of-factly. "Just not with the others. We have to catch up on lessons with Rhia. But we will." A smidge of bitterness ahowed in his tone. "Brina died, and I had no choice but to go back. My brothers and sisters needed me. I wouldn't be a very good bronzerider if I didn't do what was right."
He sighed. "I just wish it hadn't been then. Everything was going so well. I had friends, and then we--" He stopped. "We had to go. Amparath and I." T'rin knew that both of them knew who he had really been talking about when he said "we", but he went on. "It wasn't fair, but that's the way it is sometimes." He stopped awkwardly. He still didn't see daylight. "So... where are we now?" He'd lost sight and sound of the firelizards.
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Post by Tenma on Aug 8, 2006 19:19:32 GMT -5
Miya waved her hand. "Yeah, I know. They needed you and you had to go. You already told me that, I get it." She said in an agitated voice. She really didn't care. It couldn't have been that urgent that he couldn't take two seconds to let her know that he was leaving. And only a short time after she kissed him. She still couldn't believe it!
Miya stopped walking as T'rin paused after the word 'we'. "Things happen the that people don't plan. The story of my life and my parents." She snorted. That was probably the first time Miya had ever mentioned her parents.
As T'rin went on, Miya looked around. She too had lost sight and sound of the fire-lizards. She really wished that Reinath had woken up by now. "I don't know. Guess we are lost." She explained, as if it didn't matter to her. "I think they went this way." She pointed and continued walking, but she had no idea where she was going.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 9, 2006 21:27:04 GMT -5
T'rin flinched at Miya's tone, and as soon as he caught himself doing it, he sighed inwardly. She was almost always this harsh. The only time she hadn't been was when they'd kissed... and it hadn't lasted long then. He knew she was still upset about his leaving, but he hadn't thought she cared that much, seeing as how she'd gone right back to her usual.. well, snobby attitude when K'dan or whoever it was had shown up, and not mentioned their kiss later. Women were so confusing, especially this one.
"Well, I'll go wherever you're going, as I've nowhere to be today and I don't know this maze any better than you do. Let's just hope we don't truly get lost." T'rin snorted. "Wouldn't want to--"
Do not complete that statement, Amparath warned, knowing it would just start something with Miya.
"-- miss dinner," T'rin finished, grumbling in his mind voice at his dragon. He looked around for a sign of Micra, but didn't see her.
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Post by Tenma on Aug 10, 2006 12:54:44 GMT -5
Miya glanced at the bronze-rider as he stopped his sentence. She knew that he was going to end it another way, but she didn't pursue it. "So...how many children did you foster mother have anyways." She questioned in a bored tone. Silence would be nerve racking.
She kept her eyes out for a sign of a way out but none appeared. She was thankful that most of the walking was straight, but every now and then they had to make a choice of which way to turn. Hopefully, the two weren't getting deeper into the mazes.
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Post by Kandarra on Aug 10, 2006 14:04:16 GMT -5
T'rin knew less and less with every step just where they were. The firelizards had long disappeared, and he hadn't smelled any fresh air for a while. However, Miya was talking to him, however bored she sounded, so he talked back, realizing that he didn't want it to be quiet.
"Well, after I left, there were six. Then she got another one. So there were seven of them, with nowhere to go. Three of them were blood brothers and sister to me. The hold..." He stopped for a moment, feeling an upsurge of anger. "The hold people weren't even taking care of them until I came. They were just letting them do what they knew how to do and when Tiyor got sick... the kids didn't know how to fix it. It was so simple, but none of them had ever been taught. And the holders wouldn't help them. When I got there, they used the excuse that it was the duty of the oldest to take care of the remaining children. But the oldest was only 12, after me, and I had a life elsewhere." His nostrils flared as he took a breath, truly angry.
"Brina didn't teach any of them anything after I left. It was like she knew it would happen, and she wanted it that way. Well, wherry droppings on her grave, I say!" T'rin finished, almost shouting.
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Post by Tenma on Aug 10, 2006 14:39:06 GMT -5
Miya face stayed emotionless, and her actions didn't change. It was like none of this bothered her, eventhough T'rin was on the edge of throwing a fit. "So what did you do?" SHe asked in a calm voice.
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