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Post by Rei on Apr 1, 2013 19:47:59 GMT -5
He gratefully nosed along Dmitri’s arm as the man started to remove the ribbons tangled in his fur. Much better. Harper stayed completely still as his master worked, apart from his tail which swept the floor faster and faster. Finally when they all were removed he gently caressed the handler’s hand in thanks. The black and white canine watched curiously as Dmitri patted the bed beside him. His legs bunched and he hesitated only briefly before leaping up on the bed. Immediately Harper’s head snapped towards the door as if he expected Erilena to come through it any moment and shoo him away. When that didn’t happen he sprawled out next to Dmitri and laid his head on the harper’s chest giving a happy sigh. His brown eyes regarded the man quietly as he spoke and his tail wagged slowly before he nudged the man’s hand with his snout and gave it another soft lick. Upset master was upset. Obviously he had to try and fix this.
Time seemed to pass quickly and slowly all at once. Erilena couldn’t explain it better than that really. She bit her lip and frowned at the open living room door, willing Dmitri to step through the entryway at any moment. Only that didn’t happen. It had been more than enough time for him to bathe and change. She had even allowed extra for her husband to try and work through whatever was going on in his head. Only that didn’t seem to be happening. It worried her. Not because she didn’t think he would or could but because she didn’t like the thought of him dealing with this all by himself. At least not without knowing that he had all the support he needed. Though the woman hoped he knew that maybe reminding him wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
Glancing over at the twins Erilena stood. “Hey kiddos Daddy’s having a rough day. Think we should go cheer him up?” Immediately both Emitre and Dileina nodded and clambered to their feet. “Should we bring him flowers?” “That’s for mommas Leina not Daddies.” Her brother immediately retorted with a wrinkle of his nose. “What about cupcakes?” Dileina plowed on mostly ignoring her brother’s expression. Erilena couldn’t help looking amused as she crouched down next to them and ruffled their hair. “Maybe. How about we try hugs and hot cocoa first?” Glancing at each other in silent communication they turned back to her. “Can we have some too?” “Of course. We all can.” Almost in unison they both broke out into smiles and raced past her to head to the kitchen. Following them at a more sedate pace the blonde couldn’t help but glance down the empty hallway as they passed it. Hopefully he wouldn’t mind the intrusion. It would give him something else to think about anyway she reasoned.
It wasn’t long before Erilena was heading back down the hallway balancing a tray with both twins dancing around her feet. It was probably a miracle that she didn’t trip on the way to the bedroom her and Dmitri shared, a miracle or sure feet. Probably both. The twins got to the room first and both peeked their heads around the partially closed door. “Daddy?” “Daddy we brought you something.” Both chorused one after the other in greeting before slipping into the room and heading right for the bed. Harper turned to look at the sudden intrusion and wagged his tail a bit glancing uncertainly at Dmitri. However his glance was probably overshadowed by the two bodies suddenly flinging themselves at the handler.
Erilena slipped through the door after them still balancing the tray. A slightly apologetic smile was offered her husband before she set the tray on the table. “We thought maybe you’d like some cocoa?” “And hugs.” Dileina added in a tone that made clear that even if her mother had forgot she sure hadn’t. Emitre simply nodded and grinned up at his father. “Momma made your cocoa special so we can’t have any. She said it’s only for grownups.” Erilena wrinkled her nose at her son. “Emit you little tattletale.” Turning towards Dmitri she made a face. “It’s just a splash of peppermint liquor. That’s it.” She had no desire to get her husband drunk but a little bit of something to relax him wouldn’t hurt. Besides Dmitri usually wasn’t much of a drinker and she knew that. A bit of wine every now and again sure but in all the turns she had known him she’d never once seen him drunk. Nor did she really have a desire to.
Leaning over Erilena kissed Dmitri’s temple, since the twins and Harper had him more or less surrounded. “Take your time. I’ll be here when you’re ready but that doesn’t mean you have to be alone right now.” She murmured quietly into his ear before kissing the top of that too and drawing back from him. "Ewwww Momma don't give him cooties!"
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Post by Rei on Mar 31, 2013 0:51:14 GMT -5
Erilena frowned at the shirt she was holding as Dmitri spoke and then retreated. She finished hanging the clothes up and turned to glance down the hallway he’d disappeared into. Part of her really wanted to follow him but he was being so short and unforthcoming that she was reluctant to. In the end she turned and headed into the living room instead. As she opened the door a blur of black and white rushed past her and down the hall towards their bedroom shedding a few ribbons as he went. Poor Harper. “Momma, Momma! Doesn’t Harper look so pretty?” Dileina asked from her spot on her uncle’s lap, her bright blue eyes fixed on her mother. Smiling Erilena wrinkled her nose. “I think he would rather you call him handsome love.” Moving over toward the couch she managed something of a smile for Lenick. “You can go home now if you like.” Questioningly he looked at his sister but she simply shook her head and he sighed and rose. Glancing back at the twins she smiled at them. “I’ll be back in a minute kiddos. Daddy’s home he so he should be around soon.” With that she exited the room and walked her brother to the porch.
When they stepped outside he turned to her. “This isn’t because you’re pregnant is it? I would have thought he’d…” Erilena cut him off before he could continue. “Of course not. He doesn’t know yet. Look Nick if he wants to tell you he will.” He watched her face for a long moment before reluctantly nodding. “Alright. Have a good night Tiny. You’ll send if you need anything?” “Of course.” Giving her brother a brief hug she waited till he disappeared into the rain before heading back inside. Two pairs of curious blue eyes were watching her from around the corner. Wrinkling her nose at them she raised a brow. “Ready for bed?” Really she wasn’t surprised when they both shook their heads vigorously and retreated back into the living room to industrially start rebuilding their hold out of blocks. Another glance was given the empty hallway. He’d been gone a good while now. Maybe he’d decided to take that bath after all. Maybe it was best not to think too much about it.
Slipping back into the living room she seated herself on the couch and watched the kids play for a moment before long she found her mind idly wandering. Erilena didn’t realize she had zoned out until Emit spoke up suddenly. “Can I still tell Daddy about the dolphins?” Erilena turned her gaze back towards her son and his excited and earnest gaze, for once not knowing how to respond. Finally she spoke in a soft tone. “We’ll see Emit.” The little blonde boy’s expression visibly dimmed and he turned to his sister who quietly shrugged before placing another block on top their tower. The woman didn’t like disappointing her kids but she also didn’t want to add yet another thing to Dmitri’s plate right now either. He obviously had enough to process. Rubbing her temples she closed her eyes and sighed.
It wasn’t too hard for the canine to wedge open the cracked door with his snout. Tail wagging like a fan Harper trotted across the room to lay his head in Dmitri’s lap and whined plaintively. Mostly it was because of the ribbons pulling uncomfortably at his fur, but also he sensed something was wrong in the house. Though he couldn’t exactly process just what the unrest was it was clear he didn’t like it. Someone should fix it yes?
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Post by Rei on Mar 30, 2013 23:21:44 GMT -5
Erilena was normally not very argumentative. Normally. Nevertheless when Dmisk appeared and began trying to convince her to turn back she couldn’t help it. What she was just supposed to leave Dmitri out here in the pouring rain feeling who knows what? Yeah no. No arguing with the large blue wher wasn’t likely to get her anywhere. At all. And she knew that but still she couldn’t help but try at least. The blonde shook her wet head and had just started to open her mouth to continue her fruitless argument when she caught sight of her husband walking towards them. Erilena closed her mouth relief and questioning clear in her expression when she looked at her husband. “Are you…” She began only for him to cut her off with his soft chiding words and take her arm to start leading her back to their house.
Blinking Erilena fell into step beside her husband. A few minutes passed before she tried again to speak only to get a shake of his head in response. The woman tried just a couple more times before she gave up and lapsed into silence simply walking through the rain beside Dmitri. She has glad that the rain hid her quiet tears of frustration. No it wasn’t going to help anything to cry. It did her absolutely no good but her emotions weren’t exactly playing nice right now either. Heightened emotional sensitivity was one of the things she disliked most about being pregnant. When it worked against her anyway. Erilena spent the remainder of the trip back with her eyes fixed firmly ahead of them as she struggled to rein her emotions into something more serene. Really she was more upset for him then herself, but upset wasn’t going to help either of them was it? No.
When they gained the porch Erilena thought to speak again. Certainly warn him that her brother was here and the kids were up but he was already shedding clothes and she hadn’t found her voice again yet. Not like it mattered anyway because in the time it took her mind to process words he was already inside the door and staring to wrap himself in a blanket. “Nick…” Before she got further then that her brother turned the corner and froze muttering an apology and going red before looking away. “Uh….sorry. I see you’re back.” A questioning look was shot his sister. Erilena simply nodded before tacking on. “Is here…Thanks again for watching them Nick. I appreciate it.” Lenick nodded before glancing questioningly at Dmitri. Hearing his sister clear her throat he frowned mildly before he simply clapped the other man on the back. “The kids are bathed and I fed them. If you guys need anything else let me know?” With that he squeezed Dmitri’s shoulder and leaned down to murmur something to his sister who shook her head. Frowning Lenick glanced back towards the living room. “I’ll keep them occupied till you’re ready to take back over.” With that he slipped around the corner leaving the two alone again.
Removing her soaked jacket to hang it up to dry Erilena glanced back at Dmitri. “Bath or just dry clothes?” She didn’t know what else to say right then. Or even where to begin. Or what she could even say. Asking him if he was upset with her would be a good start but honestly she wasn’t sure now was the time. Instead she waited for his answer while systematically hanging all the wet things up to dry. It occupied her hands at least.
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Post by Rei on Mar 30, 2013 17:20:10 GMT -5
The look on Dmitri’s face pained her. Erilena wanted to move and take him in her arms and tell him that it would be okay but something stayed her feet. Perhaps it was the fact that she knew even if she did it wouldn’t help right now. He had to process this on his own and she couldn’t fix it for him. As much as she wanted to she knew she couldn’t. And really somewhere deep down there was also this nagging voice, this feeling, that maybe he blamed her a bit for this too. It seemed stupid and unreasonable. The blonde knew that but feelings didn’t always fit neat and tidy in pretty wrapped up boxes. Erilena had opened her mouth to speak again but Dmitri had already slipped out the door. Swallowing the blonde turned to the window and watched him take off across the orchard. She blinked the gathering tears out of her eyes. “And by the way I’m pregnant.” She intoned quietly to the empty kitchen before simply taking the kettle off the stove and dumping its contents into the sink almost angrily.
Erilena wanted to throw something. Kick something. Do anything but sit in the kitchen alone with her thoughts. Rubbing her temple she sank down into one of the kitchen chairs and briefly gave into the impulse to cry. She waited half a candlemark but he had not returned. The twins awoke and she busied herself setting them up with a snack and something to drink her eyes flicking over and over again toward the rain speckled window. Still no sign of her husband. The dark gnawing worry in the pit of her stomach got worse and worse and finally she sent Grim to fetch her brother. The rider knew she had to go looking for him.
The twins in turn were uncharacteristically quiet, perhaps because they sensed the prevailing mood. Even Emitre was silent, simply helping his sister fix numerous ribbons into Harper’s fur. The canine huffed quietly but patiently allowed the twosome their annoying pastime.
Lenick showed up wet and ruffled looking about fifteen minutes later, glancing at her with an obvious questioning look when she met him on the porch. “Thanks for watching them on such short notice.” Nodding at his sister the man frowned. “Is everything okay?” Not meeting his eyes Erilena shook her head. “Not sure. I’ll be back.” With that she quickly slipped out into the rain, avoiding the quick grab her older brother made for her arm. “Tiny?” The question and nickname was drowned out in the noise of the rain as the downpour got worse and she quickly headed across the yard and into the orchard. At least she had thought to wear a coat and had another one bundled up underneath this one should she find her missing husband. The spring rain wasn’t exactly freezing but it was cool and it had gotten heavier than the light drizzle it had been when it first started.
The trees sagged with the heavy wetness of their leaves and the spring blossoms that weighed their branches. Hesitating amongst them she started calling out, not sure how else she would find him. If he was here at all that was. “Dmitri! Dmitri! Where are you?” Erilena tried to keep her voice from sounding panicked but it certainly was insistent. That part she couldn’t help.
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Post by Rei on Mar 30, 2013 16:26:16 GMT -5
Had he been paying attention at all then? Clearly it didn’t seem that way because he was in such a rush to leave. Maybe she should have omitted some of it but it wasn’t like she could just come out and say. ‘oh and by the way he called you a snake and me willfully blind and stupid. Furthermore it appears we are now part of the afterlife to him’ Yeah Erilena could see that going over so well.
A hand went to her temple and she rubbed it against the growing headache. “Dmitri stop.” It wasn’t quite a command but nor was it a request either more something in-between her voice borderline firm. It was an attempt to snag his attention. The woman wasn’t completely out to lunch she had seen his reaction with the first utterance of R’ven’s name but she had hoped he would continue to listen. If not to the words then the tone she had used when speaking about the smith.
“He left.” She finally offered when she was at least half sure she had gained the majority of his attention. Turning back to the cabinet to hide her expression she swallowed at the sudden tightness in her throat. Honestly Erilena was pissed at R’ven. She didn’t care at that point if he came back ever again at all. Or at least she told herself that. But she didn’t want to hurt Dmitri. He was rarely childlike eager about anything. Taking down the tea kettle she filled it with water and set it on the wood stove to heat, trying to fight the urge to tear up or vomit or hell who knows what. Taking a breath she glanced at the dark sky outside through the rain speckled window. “We fought. He’s angry that I’m with you. He called you a snake and me willfully blind. I slapped him. He kissed me. I rejected him, we fought some more and he took off on Tril. He’s not here anymore.” Perhaps that was too short of a version of events but obviously her first attempt had gone wrong. Erilena bit down on her lip and then forced herself to turn from the window to face Dmitri her voice weary and apologetic. “I’m sorry.” What more could she add to it? If the harper had questions she was sure he would ask. A small sleepy questioning nudge to her mind alerted her to the fact that she had accidently awoken Feyrianth. A quiet mental reassurance was passed along to the green before she spoke again to her husband. “Want to rethink that offer of tea?”
Hell at this point she was ready to say shard it and just break out the alcohol but that would be a bad idea. Maybe not for her husband though. Half glancing back at the cabinet that held the wine glasses she kept the majority of her attention on her husband, trying to for his sake to at least keep herself from showing all her frustration and upset with the shardblasted situation.
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Post by Rei on Mar 30, 2013 13:20:15 GMT -5
She allowed him to doctor her in silence, both hating and welcoming the quiet in equal measure. When Dmitri released her hand Erilena brought it back in front of her face to examine the cut on her own for a moment and then dropped it back to her side her hazel eyes flicking to the cutting board as he washed the knife and finished her preparations on his own. “Thank you.” She uttered softly before wrinkling her nose and straightening her skirt almost self-consciously when he spoke. Straight to business it seemed. There was no running from it or pushing it aside. Not when he turned his whole body to regard her.
With obvious reluctance she spoke. “I met an old friend of ours today, when the kids and I were coming back from shopping. At first I didn’t completely recognize the dragon and then when I did I didn’t believe it was actually him till I met him on the road.” Running a hand through her hair she managed something of a sad smile. “It was R’ven.”
There the first part was out. It was the rest that sucked. Erilena pushed on before Dmitri could respond verbally. Simply because she didn’t want to be interrupted, mostly for fear of forgetting exactly what she wanted to say. “He seemed like he was in quite the hurry at first. I tried to engage him in conversation but he was reluctant. At first I didn’t get exactly why and then I saw how he looked at the kids, almost like they had upset him somehow. Of course they were curious about him because it was obvious I knew him. He was pleasant to them at least. Well…Dileina anyway. Emitre was a bit bratty but I think that was partially my fault. He was so short and to the point that I got a bit upset and I think Emitre sensed it the little snot. Either that or it was R’ven’s attitude. I invited him here for a small snack but he politely refused and went on his way. Delivering something to the blacksmith here I think.”
It was here that she fell silent for a moment and met Dmitri’s eyes on purpose. “There was something about the way he was acting that bothered me so when the kids and I got home and they went down for their nap I took some muffins as an excuse and went back. Fey was still with Tril so I just waited there for a few minutes because I knew he would have to come back to Tril to leave…”
It was a mistake. Erilena knew that now but she had to try at the time. Running a hand through her hair she glanced up at her husband. “Would you like some tea or something?” She needed something. Wanted something stronger then tea but couldn’t. Not now anyway. Oh yes that was right she still had to tell him that too. Though she had promised Emitre...
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Post by Rei on Mar 26, 2013 19:13:12 GMT -5
Well shard it all it really hurt. Honestly she should have been paying better attention. The coppery taste of her blood was a bit unpleasant, though not unpleasant enough to have her gagging. As a healer Erilena should really know better though. Saliva wasn’t exactly completely sanitary but it was an immediate reaction and it wasn’t like other people didn’t do it all the time. Still had anyone else done it she would be lightly scolding them. A glance was given the sink and the greenrider had just about made a decision to go rinse the wound properly when she felt a large presence behind her and suddenly was captured around the waist and by the wrist.
She jumped. Not a lot though. The first contact surprised her was all. The familiarity of his touch and voice quickly had Erilena relaxing into his embrace and she let Dmitri manipulate her wrist. Removing the finger from her mouth as requested she allowed him his examination without a word of protest. Glancing up at him after the kiss to her head was complete she offered a genuine smile. “Honestly I thought you hooligans would be making mischief for a bit longer. Anytime all three of you are involved the hold should be on alert.” The teasing lit to her tone was impossible to miss and she wrinkled her nose before adding. “So did you have fun?” Reaching up to flick a strand of the harper’s damp hair with her other hand she almost commented that he was wet. But really that was pointless, he knew that.
It still amazed Erilena sometimes just how much her husband had changed over the turns. When she had first met him Dmitri had been stick thin and tall yes but not near as tall as he was now. He’d filled out a lot too, over the turns. His eyes were just as gorgeous as always though. Her eyes half lidded as she regarded him, his own scent and that of the rain making her mind travel in interesting directions. A small pulse of pain from her finger brought her mind back from its quick side trip and she flushed slightly. Yeah…it was clear the hormones were present. Maybe. Really he did this to her all the time. Better to concentrate on something else currently.
Glancing down at her mountain of vegetables she frowned slightly, the sight of them brought back her thoughts from moments ago. How was she supposed to bring it up? If he asked how the day went she guessed. The woman was in no huge hurry to ruin the current moment, though she would have to bring it up very soon. That she knew. Preferably before the kids woke from their nap. He’d be upset. Didn’t take a genius to know that and Erilena was still trying to think of the best way to tell him.
There really was no way to make it better or sugar coat it. Not that she tended to do that with her husband anyway. They knew each other too well by this point. She had long ago stopped hiding anything from Dmitri. Which had its good and bad points sometimes.
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Post by Rei on Mar 25, 2013 21:16:35 GMT -5
Erilena slipped back into the house feeling irrationally guilty. Not only for leaving her children home with just the dog and Grim but because of the phantom feeling of that kiss. No she hadn't participated, but it had still happened. It wasn't just the kiss though. It was the look on the brownrider's face when she had shoved him away that bothered her. The icy cold tone to his words when he had told her that she was dead to him. That they both were dead to him. Even though for all purposes it wasn't really Dmitri's fault. If R'ven had wanted to blame anyone it should just be her. For it was true that Dmitri held her heart, but he didn't control it. Erilena's hazel eyes immediately flicked to the hallway and it's doors, beyond which their children lie napping.
It had started out as such a good day too. She had taken the twins down to see the dolphins at Blossom and then come home to go shopping. It was on the way back that it had happened. Feyrainth's joy had been short shared with Erilena. She should have thought to keep R'ven's meeting with the children brief. Saw the expression on the brownrider's face as he looked at them. He had excused himself and left before too long. It had been a mistake to go back to try and talk to him. She knew that now but she had to try. She always had to try. It was stupid perhaps but she liked to keep her friends and R'ven had been a good one. Especially to Dmitri. Or so she had thought. Now she wasn't sure what to think. Or how she would tell him.
Thankfully the twins were still asleep when she finally cracked open their door to check on them both. They were sprawled out on their respective beds with Harper laying between them on the floor. Their golden blonde hair tousled and clothes ruffled with sleep. They resembled their father a lot. Especially Emitre. It was almost tempting to wake them just so she could hold them close. But she didn't. The black and white canine wagged his tail once when she smiled down at him and then settled back down when she stepped back from the door. They would sleep for another few candlemarks or so she was sure.
Emitre in particular had been so excited to tell his father about their day and she had promised him he could be the first to tell Dmitri. Now she wasn't all that sure that telling her husband right off the bat would be the best idea. He was bound to be upset about what had happened with R'ven and she didn't want her happy news to be marred by that. Was that terrible? Running her hand through her messed and tangled hair she turned and headed back into the kitchen to prepare their lunch for them all. Dmitri should be back soon. Whatever Gyrion had wanted probably wouldn't take the rest of the evening and night.
The greenrider settled into the familiar motions of chopping the vegetables for the salad she was sure her kids would only pick at. Dimly she was aware of Feyrainth grumbling something about it starting to rain and she had wanted to see the stars tonight. The sudden taping of rain on the window further soothed Erilena into something like a trance for a moment. Her mind would not go completely quiet though. It re-visited her meeting with R'ven over and over and in response her chopping of the vegetables grew more violent as her frustration and anger with the whole thing grew. She was so involved in her own thoughts that she didn't hear the opening of the porch door or the sound of footfalls. Finally the woman's hand slipped and the tip of the knife sliced open her finger. Yelping in surprise Erilena glanced down at the bleeding digit. She cursed softly before sticking it in her mouth to suck the blood off so she could examine it and make sure she hadn't really hurt herself.
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Post by Rei on Mar 25, 2013 14:27:23 GMT -5
Of course he was listening. He always listened. That didn’t mean the words being spoken didn’t annoy him though. The war baptized Wingleader was good at hiding annoyance now. With age came experience and hopefully maturity. The young bronzer had grown up quite a bit. He could still be headstrong and a bit of a gun jumper but those tendencies were mostly easily reined in now by the calmer Mavenath. The young bronzer watched S’rei as he spoke. There was a time when he hated the man but over the turns he had grown to respect him. That respect had only grown with his decisions during the summit. Cr’oph himself approved the majority of them. Holder children had no business impressing dragons in his opinion. Never did. A lot of the time they made terrible riders. Sure they shaped up in some cases but there were too many moral obligations. Too much emotional and sentimental garbage to toss out. It took them awhile to adjust to the lifestyle changes and some still never did. No. Holder children should stick to their world and riders should stick to theirs. This whole idea of one big happy world was foolish. It would never work. Pern has not perfect. It would never be.
Cr’oph waited for M’gnum to finish speaking before he spoke up, sitting up straighter in his chair and flicking his long runnertail over his shoulder. “I too plan to participate in the trails.” He announced his eyes fixing themselves on S’rei before they moved to the others around the room. “However M’gnum I disagree with you. I think these so called restrictions for the most part benefit us. It keeps the holders content. Let them have their ‘illusion’ of power over us. Everyone knows that’s not true. Besides I agree. Crafters should never have be taken from craft to serve as riders. Holders in general tend to make terrible riders unless taken at very young ages. Older holder children are too set in their ideals. Have too many moral issues to overcome. Our young dragons suffer and become confused over such a lot of the time. There are plenty of weyrborn to serve as candidates. I don’t mind the occasional very young group of holders being chosen but I disagree that they make good riders. Take some of my former classmates for instance.” A soft derisive snort was given. “No offense meant at all to you S’rei but we can take your son as an example as well. He is quite the harper. Might have been a better one had he never been reassigned from the hall and impressed that wher. Doors are now closed to him that wouldn’t have been closed had he not impressed. Had he impressed a dragon it would have been worse.”
His grey eyes moved to M’gnum. “Also some of our riders have been living in their holds for turns now. They are adjusted and starting to call those places home. Beyond that it gives us positions in the various hold, they are the link between hold and weyr if you were. I say leave them there. If you asked them half probably wouldn’t leave and come back now anyway. I don’t see what ‘restrictions’ You think need to be lifted. I see very little problem with things as they are now. If you think things would be better if we went back to the old ways I am afraid I must disagree.”
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Post by Rei on Mar 23, 2013 17:52:34 GMT -5
Visiting E’rro was always interesting. A mixture of exciting reminiscing and then epic boredom. His weyrmate, Raebeli, was also interesting in the way a patchwork quilt was interesting. So much to take in you often got hung up on one thing before noticing another. She was also exhausting. Er’ani was quite done with his visit after a few candlemarks and had started to get antsy. Originally he had wanted to visit M’ta but the man was so busy that even old friends seemed not to be able to get an appointment. Fiiiiiiiigured. With a heavy sigh the young albinorider, (Yes he still utterly refused to be labeled as Bluerider. Lketh wasn’t blue was he?), leaned against his pale beast and sighed deeply.
With a soft snort the dragon lowered his head to eye his with placid pink whirling eyes. I can feel your boredom from here. “There’s nothing to do.” The man whined plaintively at the dragon, who would have rolled his eyes had it been physically possible. That is impossible you know. There is always much to be done if one would only open their eyes. “I suppose. It does seem a shame to come all the way from the North only to go home after a couple of candlemarks. Maybe we could crash M’ta’s weyrling lesson?” I would highly advise against it. He seems to be in a mood. Blinking the rider tapped his dragon on the muzzle with a glove. “And how would you know?” I watch. The albino returned simply.
Wrinkling his nose at his beast Er’ani climbed up on him in a sudden display of energy totally at odd with his previous slouching. “So what do you want to do then? Anything about the south you particularly miss?” Lketh turned toward him and passed along a feeling of exasperation. “Oh yeah I forgot. It’s been awhile hasn’t it? I forget you all have the memory of a two week old. What about the dolphins? You used to love them. They loved you too, probably because you were different. Plus I think I still know some people there. I forget who but…” With a shrug he grinned at his dragon. “Who doesn’t love me?” With almost palatable amusement flowing across the bond the albino male crooned and then leapt into the twilight air. Passing along the coordinates they were gone in a blink.
Remerging over Blossom lake Lketh called a greeting to the watchdragon, making sure to pass along the pertinent information necessary, before twirling down over the lake and dragging a claw across the placid surface to cause a wake. Leaning over the side of his dragon Er’ani pumped his fist in the air and gave a loud whoop the noise carrying over the quiet. The sun was setting bathing the lake in a fiery glow as the albino looped back to shore. A dolphin breeched to his left with a chattering call of greeting. Grinning Er’ani urged Lketh faster racing the waterborne creature as they sped over the lake at breakneck speed the dragon finally pulling up as they neared the shore. Back winging strongly to halt their forward momentum, the force of air from Lketh’s wings caused the sand of the beach to kick up in a sudden storm. Unfortunately that storm just happened to bathe a large passing figure and his wher companion in a shower of sand.
A loud shout was the first indication of their mistake. Lketh gave a soft chirp as his hind legs touched the sandy beach his embarrassment hidden because his eyes were always pink, though the color did seem more vibrant than usual. Peeking from around his dragon’s neck Er’ani called out to the now sand covered figure. “Whoops…my bad. You okay?” Hey wait a second…there was only one man he knew that was quite that large. Crap… “Uh…Cainith? Is that you?”
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Post by Rei on Dec 2, 2012 19:12:08 GMT -5
Approved ^^
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Post by Rei on Dec 2, 2012 19:00:54 GMT -5
Sounds good all.
I won't be archiving till Friday when I have more time to do so. Work kinda kills me.
I'll also pm you on Friday about Caden Ruby. I can't get my thoughts together right now lol. Too darn tired. ;o;
I have time to look at a few of the candidates but not much else tonight. The time has restarted as of now. I decided just to keep it in the month of April since the month wasn't really ever played.
So continue on as normal. I might pick a few threads up myself this Friday and Saturday.
Thank you all for your patience and thank you for the code Ruby. I'll start my advertising campaign soon :3
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Post by Rei on Dec 1, 2012 12:41:18 GMT -5
I'm here (and I also have my candidate, if he is indeed accepted yet) I will be looking at an approving candidates later today as well as moving all old threads to archives unless there is one someone wants to keep. ^^ I you do want to keep an old thread let me know here. I'll be restarting time as well this afternoon by updating the header.
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Post by Rei on Dec 1, 2012 12:39:19 GMT -5
ahahaha I <3 you so much Lotty
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Post by Rei on Dec 1, 2012 12:38:41 GMT -5
Here, still... any idea about the razorclaw Flight/hatching? Until we get more members and more activity that won't be happening. Sorry Shock. It is planned but not until we have the memberbase for it. That kind of goes for all hatchings right now.
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