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Post by phlysolo on Oct 27, 2008 11:28:34 GMT -5
Lenia was sitting on the beach near the very spot where Midna had burst from her shell and attacked the Candidate lass. On her face was now a healing gash that ran from right above the hole of her ear, across the slope of her cheek, and ending jaggedly on her upper lip. It was both ugly and appealing to anyone who dared gaze upon it and indeed Lenia carried it with pride, for who else could say that they had been so brutally Impressed by a firelizard?
And who could want more out of her Midna? The firelizard was high strung and as proud as any gold, and much less 'flighty' than any green she'd ever come across. Certainly she was better than those flitter freaks that had Hatched and Impressed as well. Her mouth turned up in an almost painful scowl as she remembered the strange...bronze-blue flit that had sprung from his shell and Impressed upon H'zu, no less. Ugh, that irritable annoying, painfully proper bronzerider. At least Erusth was nice...Good thing/Too bad, he'd ________ in the race for Lyeth. ((Yes, this thread is set after Lyeth's Flight and this particular segment shall be edited in accordance to who won))
Well, whatever. He was of no real importance to Lenia. All they had to do was stay out of each others way and things would be juust fine. On her lap, Midna squawked and stared up at her bonded, her eyes whirling. As much as the two got along, their personalities often clashed quite brutally and it wasn't a strange sight to see the both of them whacking at each other.
"What is it, pet? Hungry?" Lenia asked absentmindedly, stroking the firelizard into submission. As much as the firelizard was as fiery as her Impressed, the little lizard did very much enjoy physical attention and Lenia found the perfect place to scratch on her eye ridges...The flit crooned, but made no other movement, content to sit in the remainder of the nest which she'd been birthed at.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 27, 2008 15:41:20 GMT -5
Kimara made her way along the beach, whistling an off-key melody.
The vintner had her hair loose and was wearing only a bathing suit and a wrap skirt, plus sandals. She might as well enjoy the Ista weather, after all.
Of course, she had come out here to be alone, and when she saw the young girl, she almost turned back. No, not that young. A teenager. An apprentice or a candidate, no doubt, and she even had a firelizard. Kimara had heard there had been a Hatching right before her arrival.
A Hatching in which two deformed firelizards had arrived on Pern. Or mutated. What she had heard was not all that clear...
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 27, 2008 16:16:13 GMT -5
Andol was walking on the beach clucthing his stuffed dog to his chest. He was happy to be outside at the beach were he could hopefully be alone. It was then that he saw the two girls. He felt extremenly nervous and wondered if he should even go over there. He deicded to act the way he normally and just to walk past. Then his eyes started wandering and he look at the sand and reached down and picked it up and let it run out through his fingers. Topaz who was on his shoulders just sqwauked at him and tried to tug at his shirt to get him to go over and talk to the two people. Leaf who was clinging to his back really just sat there and rubbed her head aginst his back.
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Post by phlysolo on Oct 27, 2008 18:27:01 GMT -5
A soft melody caught the Candidate's ear and she turned her head towards the direction of the sound. Sadly, the girl gawked in the wrong direction, her ears not quite so tuned to pinpoint the location of sounds. Ah, well. Her eyes not seeing the source of the sound swivled around and locked on to...some female. Oooh, sooome feeemale. She sat up and a bit too quickly for Midna was jostled on her lap and hissed in outrage. The lizard swiped at her, but Lenia was used to such tactics by now and easily moved her face out of range of the green's talons.
"You're out here quite a ways, aren't you?" She called, not bothering to stand up. The woman indeed looked a little older than Lenia herself, but what did that matter at all? She relaxed herself on the beach, figuring that if she didn't come closer and engage Lenia in a conversation that she wasn't even worth the Candidate's time.
But before she even recieved a response, a boy came bounding up the beach himself. What the shards? What was this shell buster? Couldn't she get -any- female alone with her? Scowling at this newcomer's bad timing, Lenia deposited a squealing Midna on the ground. Oooh, the flit was not pleased by this. She hissed in outrage and seeing the lad that Hers had misgivings towards charged off in his direction.
Lenia yelped at the flit's sudden attack and rushed off after the firelizard, the woman momentarily forgotten. And good thing, too. If she didn't stop Midna, that poor lad would undoubtedly be ripped to shreds by an enraged firelizard. Her flit was fast, Lenia in sheer desperation was faster. With a leap to end all leaps, she launched herself into the air, wrapped firm arms around a lithe green body and plummeted to the ground. How she managed not to squash the thrashing and screaming firelizard was incredible.
"Unless you want to get mauled, boy, get back some," Lenia snarled at him, trying to restrain her firelizard and pull herself up to her feet at the same time.
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 27, 2008 19:01:07 GMT -5
Andol just looked curiously at the firelizard charging him. He said " I wonder why she is so angry." Though Topaz and Emerald were not going to stand by and wacth there pet get attacked as the green and the bronze stood on ethier shoulder and hissed fircrly at the green. Topaz was hissing the loudest. He was a very large bronze and was not afraid of any green. Nor would he let her near his pet. Andol though was hoping that they would not fight. He could not stand to see firelizards fight and hurt each other. He then looked at Lenia and siad in a disconnted voice " I am not afraid of your firelizard. I have been hurt by firelizards before and they don't scare me. Though she is a pretty green. Much like the grass." It was obvoius he was not going anywere. Though his eyes were wandering while he spoke. It was obvious who he was talking to.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 27, 2008 20:47:33 GMT -5
Lenia would have no chance with Kimara. Too big an age gap, for one thing. "An evil firelizard?" she asked as she closed the gap. "Feisty, at the very least."
She'd seen firelizards act like that before, lively and overprotective. "She's pretty..." Her glance went to Andol. "So are yours."
She was not, of course, going to say which was prettiest...she might get attacked if she said anything other than the candidate girl's green.
Candidates. Who chose such a uncertain future. Either there would be no more dragons or...or pitifully depleted wings would force the weyrlings to graduate early, force them into things they were not ready for. These kids could die. And, thus, she smiled genuinely at Lenia.
It might, of course, be misconstrued.
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Post by phlysolo on Oct 27, 2008 21:05:07 GMT -5
By the First Egg! That idiot, dimglow boy was just standing there! Gawking at Lenia and the furious Midna! And he said something, his speech pattern was like he was speaking in third person! What kind of fool was this?! Her annoyance was strengthened by the pain of talons digging into her flesh...Midna screeched with fury and withered out of Her's arms. Just as Lenia was about to scream a warning at the two humans to get away from the enraged firelizard, Midna flicked /between/.
Stunned, the girl remained on the ground, staring with her mouth open in a wide gap at the empty space her firelizard had occupied only moments before. By Faranath...Her face was set into a grim scowl as she pulled herself to her feet, brushing sand and blood off of her forearms, pants, and shirt.
"You don't need to be afraid of Midna, you need to know when to cover your eyes," Lenia spat at the boy, ignoring his compliment completely. "Jeez, if I hadn't been here, she would have ripped you a new one..."
Lenia shook her head and crossed her hands over her chest, hiding the wounds that the angry flit had inflicted upon her.
"Oh, she's not completely evil. She's just a bundle of emotions...mostly angry ones," Lenia replied, albeit in a softer, surprisingly gentle tone when she turned to the journeywoman. "And I wouldn't call her pretty...she might take a liking to you."
Lenia flashed her own, though much more preditory version of a smile at the other woman, her eyes dancing in delight. Ooooh, a smile was it? Charming, charming.
"S'yer name, anyways?" She asked, her eyes lingering on Kimara. Lenia spared only a brief gaze for Andol. "And yours?"
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 27, 2008 21:59:07 GMT -5
Andol then though to himself and spoke in his disconneted voice again " Why would I need to cover my eyes. That just seems silly. Don't you agree Emerald." The green nodded her head in agreement like she did most times her pet asked her a question. Andol then said as though he was talking to Topaz " Beside how could she have hurt me as long as I have Topaz and Emerald here with me." Andol was gald to have the two. He was never bullied like used to be. He then aswered her question. " My name is Andol." He did not even notice her dislike toward him. Actully it was more that he could care less. Alot of people got annoyed by the way he acted, but he did not care. As long as he was happy being the way he was and was not hurting anyone was just fine with that.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 28, 2008 15:40:11 GMT -5
Kimara was not stupid. That was the kind of smile a man might give her, and she resolved to let the young woman down easily. She tried to make sure there was no hint of an invitation in her body language. Sure, there were people like that, but she was not one.
Somebody, she mused, needed a girlfriend. "Kimara," she introduced. "And...I hear greens tend to be a bit that way. Emotional, passionate."
The young woman might Impress a green dragon, if there was a clutch. At least she was safe from being chosen herself. She was not sensitive enough...the dragons did not look twice at her.
Then she glanced at Andol. "Yeah, I'd imagine a bronze can tell a green where to go." The size difference was quite visible, after all.
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Post by phlysolo on Oct 29, 2008 22:51:45 GMT -5
This boy...was...the most infuriating piece of a crushed wherryhead that she'd ever come across. What could have possibly made him so dim that he would not realize how...evil Midna was. And, like the blithe on Pern she was, the firelizard materialized again, swooping down over Andol's head and hissing furiously at him before landing territorially on Lenia's shoulder. The Candidate flicked the firelizard upside her head to shush her. Midna squawked unhappily but settled down, her tail wrapping so tightly around the girl's neck that she nearly sputtered with lack of oxygen.
"As-you-can-so...see," Lenia gasped out, snarling as intimidatingly as she could despite the fact that she could barely suck in breath. "Midna has a very bad temper. She nearly clawed me to death when she was born. I wouldn't put it past her to try and nibble someone's extremeties off."
OoC: I just thought it'd be really funny if Midna became a zombie firelizard xD
IC: The girl shook her head impatiently. What did it matter that he himself had two flits? Midna could probably out maneuver the bronze and certainly wouldn't back down to him. She hadn't ever obeyed any other firelizards commanding chitters. Then again, she'd never been around a queen before, but still...
"I'm sure she'd find a way, Andol, was it? She's conniving and tenacious," Lenia continued once she rather forcefully loosened her flitter's hold on her neck.
Lenia didn't want to spend her time conversing with such an odd dimglow. She wanted to be hitting on, oh what did she say her name was? The Candidate was even more infuriated that the foolish Andol had gotten her so worked up that she'd almost missed such an important detail! But it only took her a moment of hard thought to remember, 'Kimara.'
A coy smile curled her lips and she nodded, "Yes, they are passionate and someone told me that they can emulate their bonded's emotions very well."
"Dunno if that's true, though. Midna's only emotions tend to have something to do with anger, hunger, and affection."
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Post by yamamoto on Oct 30, 2008 11:51:13 GMT -5
Andol just shrugged " I can see prefectly well that she as a temper, but I am not going to hold it aginst her. Plus I have hung around some wild firelizards with tempers just as bad. Am I right Emerald." The green nodded her head. Andol was using his indircet method of coversation agian. Though those usally only came around Andol becuase of how well he would feed a wild flit that hung around. Though it was obivous that the spitefulness Lenia was showing toward him had obviously went right over his head. Though it was more like he could care less. Andol stated as a matter of factly " Though wether or not she finds a way. I am still not scared of her. No matter what she does. Isn't that right Topaz." Though the bronze isn't only looked at him. Topaz was at his wits end with the young green. He wacth for second the way Lenia was conversating with Kimara. He almost faceplamed, but didn't. It bugged him when people kept trying even if one person was trying to let them down esay. Though he did not say anything.
Andol though did fell Topazes and Emeralds claws dig into his shoulder when the other green swooped over Andol head. They both hissed at her again though Andol could tell this was worse than before. He could tell that Topaz had almost had egough and all it would take was one more thing for green to do. Before Topaz would attempt to shredd her to peices. Plus he knew that if Topaz charged Emerald would charge to and once that happened Andol did not think he could stop them. Becuase the fact they had not already was becuase they knew there pet really did not want them to. Though Andol was getting alittle annoyed with Lenia. Though it was becuase she had flinked her firelizard. Andol had never once had to do that to Topaz even when he had a temper. Becuase the only way to make Andol made would have been to somthing like that to Topaz or Emerald.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 30, 2008 18:24:35 GMT -5
Kimara shook her head. "I need to get myself one of the critters. It seems everyone down here has them." Whether 'flicking' a firelizard was appropriate or not, she was not sure. She kept a wary eye on Midna, for now. And a bit on her owner.
Apparently, Lenia was going to be tenacious. "I can be passionate. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no interest in other women." If that didn't stop her, then, in Kimara's mind, the lesbian was crossing a line. It was no more acceptable for a woman to push it than for a man.
"So, you're both candidates? I'm told I'm not sensitive enough, myself. Not dragondeaf or anything, just not..." Enough. She could probably Impress a firelizard or two, though, if she had the opportunity...but she'd rather have one from Emerald's clutch than Midna's. Just in case that temperament passed on.
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Post by phlysolo on Nov 2, 2008 20:11:37 GMT -5
Lenia simply couldn't understand Andol and his weirdness. In fact, the more he spoke, the less she liked the lad and she hadn't liked him very much from the start of their meeting. Oh, so he'd met other feisty firelizards, had he? Well, whoopty-do. He seemed completely oblivious to the fact that Midna was, well, evil. Not that the firelizard didn't have some good qualities to her, but for the most part she was the biggest jerk anyone could come across at any one time.
"You've never met Midna before, Andol," Lenia said in such a contemptuous way that it would be clear to even the biggest of dopes that he was not on her list of 'favorite people.' "Midna's not your run of the mill impolite. You shouldn't be scared. You should be terrified."
And as if to prove Lenia's point, Midna snarled at the other two firelizard, received a second flick on the head, and proceeded to latch on to Lenia's ear. She managed to restrain a yelp, but did wince and felt her knees buckle under her from pain. Oooh, this firelizard! Seizing the green with two fingers on the sides of her jaw, she managed to pry the lizard's mouth off of her ear. It was probably bleeding buuut, that was Midna...
"Well, I should say that's unfortunate for you not for me, Kimara," Lenia replied swiftly to the older woman, now stroking the green on her shoulder. Her tone did not reflect disapointment at all, but rather with an air of 'I didn't want you anyways.'
And what an unusual pair firelizard and Impressed must seem to be. Now that Midna had effectively taken her wrath out on her Bonded, the firelizard was now sitting primly on the Candidate's shoulder, peering curiously at the other humans and firelizards.
"And yes, I'm a Candidate. Can't speak for him, though," Not Lenia, thought, that she would ever want to. If she never saw Andol again, that would be perfectly fine with her! "Then what do you do here at the Weyr if you're no Candidate? Thought the Weyr was full up for everything aside dragonriders."
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Post by yamamoto on Nov 2, 2008 20:33:05 GMT -5
Andol could tell that Lenia was annoyed with him though he did not care though this girl he thought though was alittle brain dead. " Lenia when are you going to get it through that thick thing you call a skull. No matter how bad you say your firelizard is. I won't beileve you nor will I care becuase I not afriad of any firelizard no matter how bad it is and yes I have seen ones just as bad I have the scars to prove it to. Plus you need to stop fliking Minda. You shouldn't do that." The last sentance was differnt form the way Andol noramlly spoke. It had a tone of if you do it. I am going to do somthing. Andol looked at Kimara and siad " Yes I am a Candidate." Andol then turned and looked at Leina and her so called evil firelizard.
Though at that moment Andol felt Topaz's agenr and he siad " No my dear don't do it." Minda snarling at him was the last straw and with Topaz took off stright toward Minda. Emerald soon followed. They were both hissing and aiming for Minda. Andol tried to grab them both he was able to, but just barly. He fell back in the sand holding the two firelizards in his arms. He said " Don't do that you two. I don't want you to kill anthoer firelizard." Topaz just turned and hissed at Minda as Andol held him. He then settled down into his pets arms.
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Post by ShadowReine on Nov 2, 2008 23:03:52 GMT -5
Kimara shrugged. "I suppose the -fortunate- people are those who like both. And if people could keep their flits under control..."
She fixed Andol with a look, and then a milder one to Lenia before supplying. "I'm the journeywoman Vintner who makes sure the cellar is stocked, advises the cooks on what to serve with different meals, that kind of thing. Dragonriders do like to party, after all."
She supposed it was the inherent danger of their profession that made them a little bit...no, not flighty. Hedonistic, though, definitely. Not that there was anything wrong with that. "Good luck to both of you when the eggs crack."
Now...what would be an appropriate red and white...she'd need both...for a Hatching Feast?
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