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Topic Started: Jun 9 2012, 11:25 AM (305 Views)
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The hatching wasn't very far off. At least that's what people were saying. Nairo had found it hard to get off his mind ever since the touching. There was something different about those eggs, it had felt different than at Lisenyth's touching. Maybe because there were so few of them, they felt more special? Some silly part of him hoped that one of those seven dragonets had sensed him, picked him. That come hatching day, his dragon would come to him and he wouldn't have to wait around for the next queen to rise and do the whole process all over again. Getting ones hopes up was so exhausting!

No use worrying about it right now, he told himself. There was the more immediately pressing matter of finishing the commissions he'd accumulated during his candidacy before the hatching. If he was lucky enough to Impress, he wouldn't have any time at all to work on things like dresses and pants. He'd already been paid handsomely for work that wasn't even completed yet so Nairo was feeling the pressure to perform. He'd have them ready by the hatching banquet for sure, but between this and chores he was going to get burned out in a bad way.

It was with this urgency in mind that he found himself going through the storage closet in the lower caverns. He'd come prepared this time with a glow in one hand and both fire lizards to escort him. None of the doors here opened from the inside. It was a startlingly stupid design choice in Nairo's opinion. He bent to look at a basket of threads and hummed quietly to himself. Moriarty fluttered from shelf to shelf, sniffing everything around him while Cliff perched next to his master on the sewing shelf, ready and alert. Nothing would hurt his bonded this time!

((Looking for someone to slam the door on him so Oob can come save the day! Any takers?))
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"Shard it!"

"Ugh, shells."

"By the first egg, this is what apprentices are for. I have better things to do with my time!"

The cross, young journeyman healer moved down the hall as fast as her tray of flasks, bottles, and jars would allow. The assortment clinked and rattled unsettlingly with every step she took, and it was sharding heavy. She tossed her blond bangs out of her eyes with a flick of her head, irritated and cursing herself for not having them trimmed last sevenday like she'd planned. She let out an aggravated huff and turned a corner, wishing the hall wasn't quite so long.

"Arrrrgh!" She stopped in her tracks and glared at the door some wherry-headed fool had left open. If it wasn't for the benighted tray she could have slipped past, but as it was she couldn't get by.

Fed up with the way her day had been progressing, the irritable blond carefully balanced herself - and her load - and then kicked the door shut with a slam. She took a moment to be sure that she still had her balance, and then continued down the hall muttering.

[ooc: 8D and exit one snarly healer stage right. have fun guys!]
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Nothing in his life was destined to go right it seemed. Even being as careful as he was, with his fire lizards to help and a glow to keep away the oppressive darkness of the lower caverns, Nairo still found himself trapped like a tunnelsnake in a trap. He had only Cliff's shrill screech of protest to warn him of the slamming door before he was plunged into near darkness. Only the tiny glow he held kept him from simply bursting into tears on the spot. He lunged for the closed door and pounded on it.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?! Come back here and let me out!" The glow lit only a tiny amount of the room and already he could feel the walls closing in on him. He felt like all the air was being crushed from his lungs. "There's someone in here! Please let me out!"

Shaffitshaffitshaffit! Not again!

The candidate sank to the floor of the closet and wrapped his arms around his knees. All his calm composure was gone. "Moriarty, Cliff, go find help. Get me out of here." They vanished and he was alone in the dark. Nairo didn't have high hopes for rescue. He didn't have two dragonriders in here with him this time with dragons that could call for help. No one would understand what his fire lizards were trying to tell them. He was going to die down here.

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Seasons had gone by and still Balusc was not all that familiar with what tunnel led to what storage closet, and sometimes out of frustration he just picked one and went with it only to find out he usually made the wrong choice. He'd have to turn around and start again, and it would take him some time to retrieve the things he sought.
Sometimes he'd get so very lost, he'd forget why he went into the Caverns in the first place, give up, stomp into the kitchens, find some booze, and huff off into his room with it.

It was an example of luck that Balusc found himself in this predicament once again, at just the right time to possibly be distracted by noise.

Irritated and grumbling loud obscenities to himself he stood down there, a hard scowl on his face. He picked at his hair idly, having a plain, narrow-toothed comb thoroughly stuck in a thick knot, just hanging off his head. Yes, he walked down there like that. He didn't have anything to cut it with in his room--he thought he had, he was so SURE of it.
He didn't.

Balusc had no intention of giving himself a bald spot just by pulling it out of his otherwise gorgeous hair (he thought so at least), and he'd kill anyone who dared to try. He'd given a few death glares on his way to be sure and just quietly hoped he wouldn't run into Rujin like this.

Ugh, he could see the impish terrible look on the youth's face now. That comb would be out in a hot second and he'd have the worst sore spot for weeks!
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Nairo was beyond tears at this point. His cheeks were wet with them but no more fell. The walls were closing in on him and he was going to be crushed at any moment. He could feel the oppressive darkness choking him, just as if it were a living breathing monster with hands around his throat. It was really just hyperventilation and panic setting in but it felt real. A low dry sob escaped the candidate.

I'm gonna die here. I'm really gonna die in here!

Outside in the tunnels, Moriarty had spotted someone. He chirped a command to his brown companion and the two fire lizards descended upon Balusc. They pulled at his clothes urgently, chirping and bombarding the candidate with images of their master trapped and being crushed. Panicky emotions washed over the room. Cliff let go, flew a short distance ahead and then back, screeching. It was obvious that the little brown wanted to be followed.

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Balusc could hear the faint fluttering of wings in the quiet. Tiny communicative noises gave away the brown and bronze pair before they flew to him. Balusc took a step back, bracing for impact, and he was right to do so. A flurry of firelizard threatened to throw him off balance in their urgency to tell him something was wrong.

"Agh! What?!"

Annoyed, confused, he growled under his breath, almost swatting at them to get them to stop until their actions were brought into focus through further explanation -- mental imagery and not noise and forceful yanking. Balusc's eyes grew wide with concern, and it was then Cliff and Moriarty had his unwavering attention.

Someone was crushed and could not breathe, the thought alone had Balusc's breath catch in his throat. A fellow Candidate was trapped somewhere and his firelizards had successfully found just the right person to help. There was no one more suited at Vaioa to carry stock, or one's furniture, to lift stone, break in the wiliest of runnerbeasts, to stand in the path of a raging bull while the weaker fled. His very fibers were knitted for the labors of rescue, big and small, in Balusc's most humble opinion.

Balusc grunted and waved the firelizards forward, bolting after the path Cliff took. "Yes, yes! Show Balusc the way!"

Balusc ran with purpose, and should anyone get in his way, they'd either be narrowly avoided or they'd discover precisely how the ground tasted. Nothing was more important.


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Moriarty lead the way with a gleeful squeal while Cliff preferred to stay attached to the candidate's chest, screeching and flapping his wings. Images of being smothered and crushed assailed the boy adding more of a sense of urgency to their wild flight. As Balusc drew closer to the storage closet, Nairo could hear the screeching of his fire lizards and feel them reaching out to him, checking on him. He felt like he would die of happiness in that moment.

Hoarse with crying, he gasped out, "Hello? Is someone out there? Please help me! I'm stuck!"

Moriarty attached himself to the door handle and tried to turn it. Cliff joined him but neither fire lizard was strong enough to open it. They looked back piteously at Balusc as their master curled into a terrified ball and began to cry again. Hurry hurry! They seemed to say. Nairo was in trouble!
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He heard the voice call out, he witnessed the little firelizards doing their best to open a door ahead. When he came upon it he realized this was a storage closet.
They weren't leading him outside, they were still in the tunnels for storage.
Trapped? No great glorious rescue to be had, no one to scrape out from under rubble, someone was just...stuck in storage?
He supposed he was relieved that the task was a simple fix, but his ego went unsatisfied. He was disappointed and he could not stop himself from expressing how terribly unimpressed he was, his browline and lips falling flat.

The sad, hopeful looks of the firelizards had him comply nonetheless, having a soft spot for soulful gazes. Balusc grabbed the knob on the door and yanked the stubborn thing open with force. He peered his head in not to look at Nairo, but to look at the door, needing immediate explanation for this nonsense -- the knob did not go through.

"Who's fardling idea was that." he growls, already dedicated to the idea of fixing this problem himself as soon as he had the right tools.

He does then turn to acknowledge the other Candidate and his face immediately softens. How pale he seemed, his features overwhelmed by fear. He did not judge that the darkness may have been too much for him, instead Balusc felt pity.

He bends forward to better address Nairo, gently so. "I'm here. You...you okay?"
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And just like that, light was brought back into his world. Nairo gasped with instant relief and scrambled for the voice that reached out to him. Both his fire lizards attached himself to his shoulders as the rather bedraggled boy flung himself into his rescuer in a fierce hug. He didn't really know this boy very well - wasn't he another candidate? - but Balusc had saved him. "Thank you thank you thank you," he gasped.

Cliff and Moriarty nuzzled his face as Nairo stepped back, inventing new shades of scarlet in his utter embarassment. He'd just hugged a complete stranger. Another boy even! "I'm s-sorry if they bothered you. If I was a bother. I was in there looking for needles for my sewing and some wherrybrained bent tailfork slammed the door behind me. There's no handle in there and I'm claustrophobic so I..."

He trailed off and looked at the ground. How awkward. This candidate must think him a total fool now. "Thank you for saving me. I was sure I was going to die in there. I felt like I was being crushed to death..."
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Thank you for saving me. said Nairo. Balusc felt arms around him, and the big man found it to be an automatic response to return the appreciation with a kind of bewildered back pat. He was still processing Nairo's gratitude.

All at once, Balusc's disappointed frown and posture changed. A toothy grin took over his face, stretched from ear to ear, and he pulled Nairo close with little warning.
Balusc hugged the other youth back with all the force of a grown wher's jaws and then some, snuggling his cheek against the other boy's head. Nairo's feet may not even be on the ground at this point.

If he wasn't crushed in the closet, the poor lad was now.

"You are MOST welcome!" Balusc says very cheerfully, if a little loudly. "I am always happy to help! That is what I am here for!"

This entire small adventure was validated for Balusc. It was certainly alright that he had rescued someone from storage, it was that he had rescued someone at all, and was therefore useful. From the look on the man's face, should Nairo find a way to look at it (if he could at all, it didn't look like Balusc was putting him down...yet) five little words had likely just made Balusc's whole week.
Whole season, even.

"You are maybe wanting something to eat? Go for a drink? Still need to find your supplies? Balusc can help with all these things, especially the drink part." he grins. "You should relax! You could have been down here a while!"

Nope. This conversation was still going on during a hug. Nairo may have to do something about it.
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