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Evening Musings; {{Standalone/Open}}
Topic Started: Jun 5 2015, 06:49 PM (501 Views)
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Fira was a remarkably clever little thing. Barrez had expected this, but he hadn't expected the way she seemed to know what he wanted before he did. She was barely out of her shell and the young candidate found she was easily the best friend he'd ever had.

She'd acted as lookout for him today while he'd napped against a wall instead of changing glows and the night before he'd forgotten to eat before curfew and she'd vanished for a while and then reappeared with fresh meatrolls that she'd shared generously.

He was beginning to understand why Feran was so dear to Haely, acting even as a surrogate mother in the place of the grayrider with no time for her. He lay against the outside of the barracks on the cooling ground, watching her learn to fly properly and thought to himself, I don't need anyone but you.

Well, maybe a dragon. A dragon would be nice.

The little gold chittered suddenly as a dark shape swept over them and darted back to the safety of her person. She clung to his shirt as the dragon passed by on the way to the Star Stones and Barrez stroked her folded wings reassuringly. "There there, nothing to worry about. See? It's just a dragon. Going to relieve the watch dragon for the night. He can't hurt you. I wouldn't let him."

Jays, what he wouldn't give to be up there, even on boring watch duty with a dragon of his own and his fire lizard on his shoulder. They'd take Pern by storm someday. Or not. He desperately wanted to become a dragonrider, but if it wasn't meant to be, Barrez felt for the first time that he'd be happy anyways. He had Fira after all, and he'd never lack for affection ever again.
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Zara purred, rubbing her head against Lessal's cheek.

"You remember when you learned to fly, miss Zara?" he asked, and Zara replied with a splash of images of life back at the Hold, of learning to fly at night near the watch-wher's kennel. Beautiful nights, under the light of the moons with dragonkin. Not unlike this one, honestly.

"G-g-good ev-v-ening...G-gold-sir." he said, unsure how to address such a young man with such a powerful young beast. He even put in a shaky little bow, in case Barrez wasn't impressed. Even Zara, ever polite, let out a friendly trill to the young Queen.
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Fira squeaked and retreated to his shoulder, huddling against his neck and staring wide-eyed at the stranger who seemed to slip from the growing shadows. She shivered nervously against his neck, still a baby despite her increasingly graceful aerial acrobatics of a few moments before. Maybe someday she'd be as regal and fearless as Feran, but at scarcely two days old she was still fearful of most strangers. Barrez instinctively cupped her with a hand, both protective and amused.

But then the older boy stuttered and bowed to him - Him! - and he was far too consumed in hysterical laughter to comfort his fire lizard. She squawked at the sudden explosion of sound from the boy beneath her, regarding him with surprise. But he felt amused and happy, not distressed so she settled back down to enjoy the sensation of mirth and politely cheeped a greeting to the nearby green who was, at the moment, quite a bit bigger than her.

"O-Oh my Faranth! You're joking right? If people start callin' me sir then Vaioa's in a world of trouble."

The young boy leaned back against the wall of the barracks, dissolving into hiccups brought on by laughing far too hard. He grinned up at Lessal through teary eyes. "That's a good one. But if you want me to be the boss, I can do that. Why don't you drop an' give me fifty sit ups?"
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"Y-yessir," Lessal mumbled, trembling.
Nothing worse than what Demos and the boys back home had done before, he had to remember that. It wasn't eating garbage. It wasn't having your head shoved repeatedly underwater. He'd keep Zara. All the same-
"If I...fail...you will let me g-go?"

He settled himself to the ground, all self-conscious limbs and wide eyes.

It wasn't a situp, really. It was an ugly, awkward jerk upwards-downwards-sideways-upwards again-as his face burned.

Let them laugh. Let 'em all laugh, but he knew his duty as a Candidate, as a Green lizard-handler. Follow orders, no matter how strange they might seem.

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Barrez stared in disbelief as the older boy continued his groveling and began, incredibly, to do as asked. His laughter died off into sheer stupid incredulity, mouth hanging open in astonishment that anyone could be simple enough to take him seriously. Fira mirrored his stunned expression, tilting her head and chirping curiously. Was the other boy broken?

"N-No. No, oh my Faranth, are you kidding me, man? Are you okay? Like, are you sure you don't have heatstroke? Stop doing that, stop listening to me. I'm a candidate. I'm twelve." Had he been dropped on his head as a child?

Everyone was new to this once. I'm new to this.

"Ughhh, dammit now I feel bad. Stoppppp. Don't look at me like I just kicked sand in your face. I was joking. Take a breath, kid."

The irony of him calling someone obviously older than him a "kid" was not lost on Barrez. He hid his mouth behind one dirty hand and tried to refrain from further hysterics. Haely would hear about this later, of course. But he wasn't inherently a jerk. Just a smartass.
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"Oh...really?" Now Lessal really WAS embarrassed. A joke? Well, he'd never understood most jokes, so this didn't come as a surprise. "No, I'm not heatsick. I just thought that, since you have a Gold and I have a Green, I have to do what you say. That's what my Harper taught me, anyways." Maybe, he thought, it wasn't quite as strong as with dragons, but weren't firelizards a type of dragon, too?

Zara extended her neck, prrming in an encouraging way to Firan as she translated Lessal's short speech. And why, how her hide sparkled in the moons-light! How did she get her oil put on so nicely?

"I...didn't think I was looking at you funny," he added, now just wanting to make up and learn about the newest Candidate.
"I'm a Candidate too. My name is Lessal and this is Zara- who are you?"
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"Well your harper had wherry dung between his ears then," Barrez said, immidiately relieved that the other candidate had stopped bowing and scraping. It wasn't like he minded being worshipped, but he'd rather it be for something he actually did. What backwater hold was this guy from?

"You don't gotta listen to someone just cuzz their fire lizard is shinier than yours. You gotta listen to the dragonriders, sure, but if you threw yourself at the feet of the Weyrleader like that he'd just think you were loony." He soothed the little gold on his shoulder with gentle pets, feeling her relax beneath his finger tips. She extended her neck towards the green, chirping softly and curiously. Her acrobatics were done for the day, with the fright she'd taken Barrez doubted he'd get her back into the air before bedtime.

"I'm Barrez. Most folks call me Bez. This here is Fira. Just hatched the other day."

He stretched out his legs and absorbed the fading heat from the ground, looking regretfully upward at the gathering clouds. Winter would be here soon enough and then it would be gloomy and muggy. He'd miss the unbearable sun that everyone seemed to hate so much. "I can give you some pointers on rank if ya want. We ain't as formal here at the Weyr as they are in most holds."
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"Oh, yes, please, s- Bez." Lessal said. "I'm learning as fast as I can, but I don't think I'll learn half of dragon lore before the Hatching comes. The more I know about weyr rankings, however, the better! I'm always so afraid that I'll make one mad and then I couldn't be a Candidate anymore!"

He looked at Fira again, holding his breath slightly. She was just SO beautiful, like a little comet shining in the dark.

"Fira is a pretty name. Zara is a few months old, now."
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Brass Healer Kallen of Blue Kallesk (#075771)
Iron Kaantur and Bronze Kaantursk (#969652)
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"Well first," Barrez said, coaxing Fira down to his lap so he could lavish attention on her properly, "You gotta relax. People can tell when you're high strung like this. Makes 'em nervous. Might make a hatchling nervous too, tho I dunno how they work really. Sometimes the people they pick make no sense. But the old folks always say "the dragon's always right" so all we can do is shrug and accept it."

Fira crooned and stretched her head straight up so that he could scratch her glimmering golden throat. A tender smile slipped across his childish features and he was momentarily distracted before Lessal's anxious shifting brought him back to reality.

He coughed and continued, "You're a candidate so you gotta do what riders tell you, you'll know them because they'll have a colored string in their shoulder knots for what kinda dragon they ride. Only the Wingleadership and the Weyrleaders really got the power to boss other riders around, but you might run into a bronze or a copper or two that thinks they're better than you." Bez's snort spoke volumes of what he thought of that.

"Then you got the Headwoman. She's that bossy lady you might have run into in the lower caverns. She's equal in rank to the Weyrwoman herself. Everyone in the Weyr listens when she opens her mouth. You can call a rider by their dragon's rank, like, say I impressed a brown tomorrow. You'd call me Brownrider until I gave you my name. Then you'd just call me that. I think the only ones you should really call sir and maam are the ones in charge. No need to throw yourself at anyone's feet."
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"Thank you, Bez." Lessal said, taking notes as quickly as he could. "Candidates...Leaders....Headwoman. Got it! I'm really sorry if I scared your lizard, by the by. I didn't mean to. I just wanted to say hello."

He settled onto a nearby rock, watching the watch-dragon up on the heights.

"What color do you like best?" he asked, now quite soothed and stroking Zara, who let out a long, relaxed purr. "I like Blues and Bronzes, especially Tytoth. Have you ever seen Tytoth? He's really beautiful, with goldy-colored body and white underbelly and face. My favorite Blue- well, I don't have one. They're all beautiful to me."
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Brass Bazyon of Brown Bazsk (#492e12) and Blue fire lizard Valentine
Brass Healer Kallen of Blue Kallesk (#075771)
Iron Kaantur and Bronze Kaantursk (#969652)
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