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Post by Ivy on Nov 29, 2012 16:02:55 GMT -5
Foolish endeavor my lovey-voice. Foolish indeed. Set them back where they came from![/color] Nymeria's deep mind-voice broke into C'vin's thoughts as he toted his precious cargo into the Weyrbowl and looked for a place to set them up. There were only two eggs, but he had determined he would be unable to care for the 'firelizards' he expected to hatch from the eggs. So he was going to the Weyrbowl to find another rider to take them off his hands.
Finding a suitable area he laid down a jacket then set the eggs inside so they were snug and safe. Once that was tended to he pulled some of the dried meat he had brought out of his bag and then sat down on a rock next to 'his' clutch. Grinning from ear to ear he felt pretty good about himself. He'd happened upon the abandoned 'firelizard eggs' a few days back - in the stores for the kitchen no less - and decided he had to save them. A few had been shattered already, no doubt by tunnelsnakes. Despite his salamandyr's misgivings about the whole thing he had taken them and kept them warm for the past few days.
Watching people walk back and forth across the Weyrbowl he was quite particular about who he might give 'his' babies to. So when he saw a younger greenrider walking by he flagged her down, "Ay there! You there, come on over here!"
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Post by Aftershock on Dec 4, 2012 0:40:25 GMT -5
Cairenn was walking across the Weyrbowl, heading to the dining hall for some lunch, when suddenly she heard a male voice call out in her direction. Looking in the direction of the voice, she looked left and right, establishing that she was, in fact, the person the young man was calling to, and carefully began approaching him, curious as to what he might want.
Moving closer, she noticed by his knots that he was a bronzerider, though she did not recognize him, so he was obviously not on her Wing. Forcing a smile and attempting to put confidence in her voice like Roselle had taught her, she said, "Hello, there. You needed me for something?"
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Post by Ivy on Dec 4, 2012 1:06:16 GMT -5
"Darn right I need you!" C'vin replied with a cheeky grin as he quickly sized up the girl with a glance before nodding to the makeshift nest, "Or rather they do. Happened upon an abandoned nest, thinking its firelizards though I think one of thems razorclaws from the south coulda laid 'em too. Not too sure, but I know I can't keep 'um both."
His accent came out a bit thicker than he would have liked - a mish mash of being from the north, relocated to the south, only to come north again. All of the dialects being shoved into his mind only to come out of his mouth in something that wasn't harsh but wasn't exactly as soothing as a lullaby. Still chicks dig a guy with an accent, right?
Reaching a hand out towards the girl he grins again "C'vin of Ohtarth. I think I've seen ya here and 'here but I can't place your name."
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Post by Aftershock on Dec 5, 2012 0:11:47 GMT -5
Cairenn listened to the bronzerider's explanation of the situation, bemused both by the strange circumstances and the man's unusual accent. She'd never heard it's like before, and she wasn't honestly sure if she enjoyed it or not. Taking the proffered hand as he extended it towards her, she shook it gently with her thin fingers as she responded in kind, "Cairenn, of Nildath. I haven't seen you at Wing practice before, but that might be due to you being on a different Wing. I'm high altitude, myself." She chose to not mention she was unlikely to have seen him elsewhere due to her general avoidance of social situations... this man had no reason to be privy to her private shames.
Moving closer to the nest, she scrunched her nose slightly as she observed the dull-colored eggs, saying, "They're quite boring and ugly, don't you think? I don't think they could be firelizard eggs... I've never seen a draconid egg that was so colorless and mundane before." As she spoke, suddenly a tiny sandy-colored head popped out of her chocolate brown locks, it's frill extending slightly as it looked at what it's bonded did with dull blue eyes. "Probably tunnelsnake eggs, they are. Waiting to hatch, cause problems. I'd eat, but would probably catch in throat, and Fun would choke and die. Though Fun would probably deserve it," Cairenn's depressive little salamandyr commented on the situation, his frill extending and drooping in the salamandyr equivalent of a sigh.
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Post by Ivy on Dec 20, 2012 13:34:56 GMT -5
Despite her bonded ignoring her orders to put the eggs back where they had come from, the green salamandyr saw no reason to not follow him to be sure he stayed out of trouble. Her long legs made it easy for her to keep up as she kept to the outskirts of the weyrbowl, when C'vin had finally found a spot to settle in with 'his' clutch she took off from the wall and glided down to land on his shoulder. She regarded the greenrider and her 'mandyr with curiousity, especially the 'mandyr. Gliding from C'vin's shoulder to Cairenn's she peered around the girl's head to peek at the brown. Frill flared out as she eyed the brown, Foolishness is all you speak, hold your tongue if you cannot be bothered to make sense or be cheerful. Nymeria gave a soft huff and relaxed her frills against her neck once more before turning her head away from her clutch sibling and glided back over to perch on Hers' shoulder with her long tail wrapped around where his shoulder met his arm.
After his 'mandyr had said her piece, C'vin looked up to Cairenn, "Hm, you look familiar - t'ough you're righ' we aren't in the same Wing. I'm sure I'll figure it out sooner or later..." Eyes fell onto the eggs and he gave a quick nod, "You're righ', t'ey aren' very vibran', but razorclaw eggs aren' either. " His tone was more hopeful as he considered they may be razorclaw eggs instead of firelizard ones. Before he could muse more over them to the girl though, one of the eggs gave a solid twitch. Then the other one twitched a few times until a crack could be seen on it, "I guess we'll find ou' soon enough!"
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Post by Aftershock on Jan 14, 2013 23:05:59 GMT -5
Fun watched his green clutchsibling perch on His' shoulder and berate him, his eyes shifting from dull blue to dull orange, but otherwise taking no action as Nymeria finished her dressing-down and moved to the shoulder of her own bonded. His eyes shifting back to their dull blue color, Fun moved from Cairenn's hair to her petite shoulder, his tail wrapping around her neck as he looked down upon the nest, waiting for the inevitable disaster that would be sure to occur with him around.
Cairenn, for her part, let the clutchsiblings work their disagreements out among themselves as she replied to C'vin, "I didn't think there were any wild razorclaws in the North, though. I believe there's only one female in the Weyr, and I wouldn't think if she had clutched she would have left her nest unprotected... though if she did, I would be worried about being attacked if she finds out you stole her nest." With her last words, she backed up slightly, as if worried about being indicted along with the bronzerider if an angry razorclaw mother came searching for her missing eggs, and her attention was brought down as one of the eggs began to twitch and crack.
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Post by Ivy on Nov 10, 2013 22:12:07 GMT -5
The small clutch of two managed to catch the attention of both riders and 'mandyrs as the eggs twitched and shook. One toppled over and soon in a flurry of movement they both cracked open to reveal the tender prizes inside...
Tunnelsnakes!!!
The two snakes twined about inside the makeshift nest before finally catching sight of the people. Though they were mere hatchlings they both hissed and one of them lunged towards Cairenn - only to be quickly dispatched by the blur of green that was Nymeria. The 'mandyr hissed out, frill flared as she quickly snapped the first snake's neck and rounded back to go after the second. Fear was an emotion apparently even tunnelsnakes could feel as the second turned quickly and fled the 'nest', managing to disappear into a crack in the Weyrbowl's wall before the 'mandyr brought its life to and end. Satisfied Nymeria moved to perch on Her's shoulder once more, Foolishness! Such foolishness this day. Lovey-voice should better heed the words spoken to him.
A low groan came from C'vin after everything had settled down, great, now his 'mandyr had something to gloat about for a few more days. Picking up the dead tunnelsnake he tossed it aside and looked at Cairenn with a sheepish grin, "Ya alrigh' there miss? I uh, guess it weren' a razorclaw nest I stumbled upon... Real sorry abou' that."
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Post by Aftershock on Nov 10, 2013 22:58:53 GMT -5
Cairenn screeched a bit as the tunnelsnakes suddenly emerged from their eggs, the fact that she had already backed away from fear of a phantom razorclaw mother giving her enough distance to allow C'vin's green to kill the hatchling that attempted to attack her before she was hurt. Fun, of course, attempted to intervene, but by the time he had motivated his slow reflexes to protect His, Nymeria had already dispatched Cairenn's assaulter and chased away the other, so he instead detached himself from his perch on Cairenn's shoulder and crawled down her body, his posture almost making him look like he was slowly flowing down her shirt instead of climbing. He didn't even gloat about being correct as to the species of the eggs, instead simply moving over to where C'vin had tossed the dead tunnelsnake and chomping into the still-warm corpse, sending, "Fun take care of this. Not want others to slip on, after Fun not protect His," followed by a mental draconic sigh.
Having had time to regain her composure a bit, Cairenn bent down to scoop up Fun off the ground as she scolded him quietly for both trying to eat the corpse as well as for his normal self-debasement, though she knew that it wouldn't change how he acted in the future. "It's all right," she replied, "I'm okay, thanks to... er, I'm sorry, what is her name?" She pointed at the green salamandyr perched on C'vin's shoulder, obviously not recognizing Fun's clutchsibling.
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Post by Ivy on Nov 12, 2013 21:37:55 GMT -5
Perhaps if you were not so dull of mind and spirit you could accomplish more, dear mud-brother. Nymeria said to the brown, whom she apparently felt 'mud' was an appropriate nickname for.
She gave a light trill to both her clutchbrother as well as His from her spot on Hers' shoulder. C'vin rolled his eyes and chuckled a bit at his 'mandyr. "Tis here Nymeria. She talks a lo' but she means well."
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Post by Aftershock on Nov 12, 2013 22:17:27 GMT -5
Fun responded as expected to the mental jab from his clutchsister, heaving yet another dramatic draconic sigh as Cairenn pried the remains of the tunnelsnake from his mouth with a grimace of disgust and deposited them near the crack in the wall its living sibling had escaped by. Dipping her fingers in the Weyrbowl lake to cleanse them, she replied to C'vin, "This is Fun. I know his name is pretty ironic, but I thought salamandyrs named themselves when he Impressed to me, and I misheard what he said. I decided to just keep the name, though, after I found out my mistake."
Drying her hands on her pantleg, the young greenrider seemed lost for words for a moment, then finally said, "Well... now that that's over with, I guess I'll head to lunch before the good food is gone. It was nice to meet you, C'vin."
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Post by Ivy on Nov 14, 2013 14:32:49 GMT -5
C'vin gave a lopsided grin at the younger greenrider as she moved to make her way towards the tunnels leading to the Dining Hall. "Ya know, food sounds good. I 'hink I'll join ya."
It didn't matter to the bronzerider that Cairenn seemed slightly uneasy, or at least awkward. Nor did it seem to matter he was not specifically invited - in fact she'd definitely made it sound just the opposite with her tone. Hanging out with Ohtarth and the riders of the Browns and Blues his Bronze had buddied up to was just a bit droll - Ohtarth may be fine with forgoing any female contact outside of Flights, but C'vin definitely enjoyed the fairer sex. Even if it was a strictly 'just friends' arrangement. So standing up he grabbed his jacket and flicked his wrists a few times to send the jacket snapping about in the air to clear it of the dirt and egg shards still held in it. There was a slight chance that a small amount of tunnelsnake blood had landed on his jacket, but he neither seemed to notice or mind if there was. Pulling it on he nodded to Cairenn, "Lead t'e way miss."
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Post by Aftershock on Nov 14, 2013 15:04:10 GMT -5
"Oh, a-alright," responded the greenrider, her voice tinged with confusion. She slowed a bit to allow the bronzerider to catch up to her, out of politeness, then sped up to normal walking speed once he had pulled up along side her.
She didn't have anything against the man... how could she, when she had just met him... but she was honestly unsure why he would wish to have lunch with her. She was just a boring little greenrider, surely he had someone much more interesting or important to hang out with. These were the thoughts that passed through her mind as she walked silently to the Dining Hall, unaware or ignorant of the fact that it might be socially expected that she attempt conversation on the way to her destination.
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Post by Ivy on Nov 15, 2013 22:35:17 GMT -5
Hearing the hesitation in her voice he halted a step, but quickly caught back up with the younger rider. He did not wish to make her uncomfortable, but he didn't see what his company would hurt.
"Unless of course you had someone else you planned to meet? I still haven't gotten around to meeting many others - Ohtarth keeps me pretty hung up on training and the like. Hardhead that one, not much time set aside for purely social purposes or fun."
He attempted to break the awkward silence as they made their way through the tunnels to the hall, and when they finally reached the doors he strode ahead of her and opened the door. "After you."
Falling in stride next to her once again inside the hall he nodded to her 'mandyr, "So that the only one you got? Any other critters?"
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Post by Aftershock on Nov 16, 2013 23:22:13 GMT -5
Keeping her head slightly down, the greenrider responded to C'vin's question with a quiet, "No, no one else. I just don't have many people offer to hang out with me, especially people I've never really met before." Her face coloring slightly, she added, "I... don't go out very much, and I don't know many people either, outside my auntie and my friend A'nd."
She murmured a quiet thanks as he held the door open for her, and moved inside, looking for an opening in the crowd to get to the food with as few delays as possible. Noting C'vin was still following her, she answered him, "No, Fun is my only, er, 'critter'. Is, um, Nymeria your only one?"
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Post by Ivy on Nov 17, 2013 21:29:43 GMT -5
"No reason to be bashful about it you know. Plenty of people get caught up in their day to day lives and don't have many friends. I've noticed there seem to be little knots of em here and there, but it can be a bit hard to wiggle your way into em. Definitely no trade caravan, that's for sure." He may have been rambling a slight bit, and he didn't even think about the fact that the young girl may not even get the reference. Oh well.
On they walked up towards where all the prepared food was sitting out, just begging to be eaten. Picking up a few plates he offered her one and rather than waiting for her to make her selections he stepped in front of her and made his. A few meatrolls, steaming they were so fresh! A pastry. Some mashed tubers piled high and he was set to go. Grabbing a mug of klah he stepped aside and waited for the greenrider to choose her food and then he led the way to a free table - not a hard task since there wasn't a huge group of people in the hall at the moment.
Taking a seat he grinned up at Cairenn, "Aye, Nymeria is my only one. Unless you count Ohtarth. He is a critter, just the big sort I s'pose." Another grin then he was digging in to his mashed tubers as if he had never eaten before in his life. Apparently he didn't have the best table manners, but he didn't seem to care.
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