makin' love instead of misery (Tags Cr'oph)

[Ember]

It was just before the fourth afternoon hour and Nephele found herself in the infirmary, looking around for Erilena. She knew her friend was interested in dragon healing but she was fairly sure that the greenweyrling still helped out with people. She poked her head into the infirmary rooms to try and find her friend but she ended up finding something else rather interesting. She'd seen him around the weyr before and knew who he was...and more importantly what he rode. With his arrogance, Nephele hadn't been too surprised to see him Impress bronze. She actually recognized him from long ago.

Nephele doubted the man in the room she'd just peeked into remembered her from Benden Weyr, but that was where she'd first seen him. She knew his twin too. He hadn't recognized her or she was sure he would have mentioned it. Since she knew the redhead wasn't M'kai it had to be Cr'oph. Of...gah, she couldn't remember. Mother sent a feeling of disapproval through the bond as he caught His' intentions. What about Charming's friend's bonded? It took a moment for the girl to understand what the bronze was trying to communicate but he walked her through it patiently. Oh, K'sel.

Even she couldn't immediately grasp what her firelizards tried to tell her. She could rarely make sense out of what Diva told her. Silly green screamed far too much. Anyways, not what she was concerned about. She had to decide whether to approach the ex-Benden candidate or just move on. Bah, whatever. She put on a mask of friendliness and entered the room. She was counting on him being too happy to see a pretty girl in his room to wonder why she was there. She could probably pretend to be an assistant if he did ask.

Yeah, Nephele was really counting on him not asking why she was there. "Good afternoon, Cr'oph. How are you feeling?" Rumours had spread rather quickly after the fight - Run? - and Erilena had confirmed them as true for her. Mother's wings flciked open for a moment but he subsided silently on her shoulder. He loved His but she needed so much uplifting and guidance sometimes.

[Rei]

Cr’oph was staring at the ceiling, counting cobwebs and such. Again. Bored, bored, bored. Mavenath was curled up with Eveyth in the dragon part of the infirmary. Quite content the dragon was with his green cuddle mate. The weyrling was glad he had asked X’rx if she would visit. The attempt to gut him had scared Mavenath enough that he absolutely refused to leave the infirmary. They where closer now. Undoubtedly. Having something to distract his bronze from hovering was nice.

It was weird how a brush with death changed things. The warm feelings wafting off the bronze made the bronzer a bit tired. In a way it made him long for X’rx’s presence to, at least then he wouldn’t be bored. Hell anything was better than lying here waiting to be prodded by a healer and asked how he was feeling. Idly his hand traveled down his chest, where he carefully ran his finger’s over the stitches. Damn mandyr. Just what he needed, to be knifed in a mandyr run. He really needed to work on control. Closing his eyes with a sigh he totally missed the greenrider’s entrance. Until she spoke anyway.

The redhead sat up a little too fast and winced before curling in on himself and opening one eye with a audible hiss. Slowly muscle by muscle he forced himself to relax until he was more or less upright. His blue-grey eyes examined the girl with curiosity. Not Erilena. Not one of the other apprentices he knew and definitely not one of the healers. For a moment confusion was the reigning emotion. Cr’oph hazarded a half smile, for a moment wondering if she had mistaken him for M’kai. Now he recognized her. She was the one who had made out with Erilena when he spiked the punch. M’kai’s classmate Nephele. Graduated rider now. However the fact that she had spoken his name meant she hadn’t mistaken him for his brother. So now the confusion was still there but for a different reason. Huh. He didn’t remember knowing her personally.

Smoothing the blanket Cr’oph gave her a brief shrug. “I’m alright I guess. I get asked that on about an hourly basis. So yeah. No more better or worse than the last time I was asked.” The words where not exactly rude and neither was his tone, just matter of fact. Giving her a curious look he gingerly settled himself back on the bed. “You helping out here now?” Not that he really cared one way or another but that would explain Nephele’s presence and he was curious as to just why she was here.

M’kai kind of liked her, or at least wanted to lay her and he had to try to remember if his twin had made a move or not yet. If he had and the greenrider was after some kind of revenge his twin was deserving of a black eye when he got out of this sharding horrible place. His eyes flicked from the greenrider back to his hands and then the greenrider again. Okay this was just kind of awkward and his stitches stung now. Way to be unobservant. He scolded himself briefly before fixing his eyes back on his ‘company’?