Sing A Long Song [Row]

[Lotty]

It was just a sharding shame that it was much too cold to bathe in the river. Why you may ask? Well because that meant that the bathing rooms were involuntarily infected by local crazy-dealer Raebeli's renditions of Fortian folk songs. It wasn't that her singing voice was exactly bad...her parents were harpers after all, it was just that...well Raebeli was a very unique individual and she marched and sang to a different drummer. In this case that meant that every bit of that chipper voice of her was thrown into her performance as she strummed her makeshift guitar - her back scrubber that had come along for its ritual trip to the bath, "One firelizardssss, two firelizardss.....blue firelizards....do do do do," she dunked her head under the water to give the audience a quick reprieve. Luckily nobody was in attendance but her darter Cap'n.

He loved Rae. He really did! Didn't very much appreciate being stuck in the bathing caverns with her. The humidity killed him, and it was all such a tease! All of these pools and no fish to be seen in any of them! At least when the girl bathed in the river he could attend to his hunting. As it was he needed to pass the time and maybe get a little revenge. Oh revenge was something the bird understood very well, and sometimes it was the only way he knew to clue his mistress in on her little trespasses. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to operation shoe snatch! Without even a sound the predator stalked his prey, a very fuzzy type of loafer that served as a good slipper in the winter months, and it only took a moment before he descended on it, grasping it in his talons and flying away out the nearest open door with it.

And the whole time the good little healer hadn't a clue. She popped right back up out of the water, spouting out some water like she was one of those cool looking nymphs on a fountain she had seen once. Finished with her bath she hopped out of the pool and wrapped herself in a towel, still keeping up with her singing and dancing; swaying her hips all the way over to where most of her clothing should still lay, "fah la la la laaa la la..." she finished the song eyes closed...opening them only to look for her skirt and shirt and of course...shoes....but in her case she only had one. Singular. Looking around completely puzzled and minus a pet and a loafer she tightened her one handed grip on her towel, calling out in her sing song voice, "Shooooe!? Cap'nnnnn?!" Because that was totally going to help.

[Rowana]

Something large flew at Merridan and she docked instinctively. Auran shrieked in fury and started chasing after the offending beast. How dare it attack his mistress! Vikky squawked in surprise, but immediately forgot the incident in favor of the odd noisy person in the bathes. She looked like fun. Bouncing off Mer's shoulder, the green fire lizard fluttered to Raebeli and whistled a greeting.

"Auran!" Mer shouted after her blue. "Leave it be!" Such a large darter could be trouble if he started a fight and was that a shoe it was carrying? Mer shrugged. Auran was usually smart enough to stay out of too much trouble. It was much harder to keep an eye on Vikky these days. Mer stuck a finger in her ear at the singing. On the other hand, maybe chasing Auran would be better. "Hey there," Mer waved. "I think your shoe just flew away." She jerked a finger over her shoulder in the direction Auran and the darter had gone.

[Lotty]

"Eep!" She peeped out when she turned her head to see the green firelizard fluttering before her. Raebeli had for a moment thought that perhaps her darter had made a final transformation into a flitter, since the whistles were so similar to some of the quieter noises her very own Cap'n made. Fortunately, as much of a goofball the mindhealer could be, she had a solid enough grounding in the realities of science to know that a male featherball such as she owned could not and was not the smaller green thing that had greeted her. Not she was unwelcome mind you, the girl had a rather soft spot for almost all animals, and she was one of the few girls who seemed to flock to whers of all things.

For a moment she talked to the creature, resolving to tie the big towel around her snuggily as she could so that it wouldn't fall off and leave her prone to any draft that would come through and give her goosebumps. Sure she could have just gotten dressed, but the creature was just distracting enough to keep her thoughts away from her pile of clothes and her one lone shoe, "Who are you pretty? I know you're not my Cap'n," She paused to hear the voice calling down the corridors, "Is that your person coming looking for you?" How funny! Flying pets just going around the weyr at random!

Then she caught sight of the...person. From the voice she was half sure that it had been a female coming in but.... Hmmm. Confused Raebeli very much was as she examined all of the evidence lying out there for her to see. This fella had brownrider knots, and dressed rather manly - especially in contrast to the healer who always looked like some kind of summer of love pixie - but this was a girl right? Right. It had to be. Continuing on under this assumption, but still refusing to use any kind of pronoun that could show off her ignorance she replied, "My shoe flew?" Rae looked very horrified by the statement, "You didn't happen to see a big darter following it did you?"

Because clearly the shoe sprouted wings and the bird was chasing it down.

[Rowana]

Vikky chirped merrily. She liked this singing girl, she was nice! What a pretty voice she had too. Zooming around Raebeli's head, Vikky eventually landed on her shoulder. She tried to whistle the same tune that Raebeli had been singing before, but failed badly. A musician Vikky was not. Merridan rolled her eyes at her fire lizard. "If she's bothering you...," she told Raebeli, leaving the words hanging. She would never hurt Vikky, of course, but someone had to keep the creature under control.

"As for your shoe," Mer chuckled easily. This girl was an odd one to say the least. Still, she should really talk. "I think the darter has it under control," she admitted. "He doesn't eat fire lizards does he?" Not that she would admit to being worried, but Auran could get in over his head sometimes. The blue daredevil was still winging after his target, determined to catch the shoe for all barefooted females in the world. Or at least planning on making a good story to tell Red later.

[Lotty]

Soooo flattered. Having a firelizard land on her shoulder just seemed like none other than a compliment of the highest order, and the girl turned her head to look at the green, fully intending on having a good and fruitful conversation with the thing, "Oh you sing beautifully you know. We can have a duet some time when I'm not shoeless," and it was only then that she turned back to the brownrider and carried on with the subject of flying slippers and other strange weyr phenomena, "Never a bother...she can visit any time she wants...."

She considered the invitation upon the question of Cap'n. Oh yes, the big darter...well he didn't seem to have any issues with something as large as a firelizard, "Ummmm. Nah. I wouldn't worry about him, he only snacks on salamandyrs, other darters, and small little felines. If it can go between he doesn't have any interest," she said it rather non-chalantly. As if it was no big deal that she had caught the predatory creature picking off a little domestic kitten...it wasn't that she didn't felt bad, it was just that her pet could clearly do no wrong. Her darling Cap'n.

Hence a little bit of disbelief about the shoe. Was she suggesting that her darter flew off with her slipper? How odd! "So you mean to tell me that Cap'n took it!? Wow really?" then, right out of left field came the most mind boggling of statements. How did the girl really come up with some of this stuff? More importantly, who would blurt something like this while only clothed in a towel? "What do you think the likelihood was that it was a hallucination? Have you been in contact with any drugs lately? Do you feel light headed? How many fingers am I holding up?" She held up two in front of her face.

[Rowana]

Vikky trilled with joy. This human was so smart and wonderful! She and Mistress should be friends. They coudl even have tea. Yes! Tea was the best way to make friends! Merridan shrugged. "You just haven't seen her at her worst yet," she pointed out, shaking her head. "Nothing like a hyper fire lizard mixed with tea." It was good to know Auran would probably be find though. He might be reckless at times, but he wasn't stupid. He knew when to leave when the getting was good.

"Oh, and," Mer was about to suggest that she get Raebeli a new pair of shoes. Instead, the other girls was blurting out all these questions. What in Faranth's name was she talking about. "Huh? Drugs? What the shards are you talking about?" Mer frowned and looked slightly annoyed. Who was the crazy one here? "I feel fine, and two," she pointed at the fingers. "Do I get an explanation now?" Last time Mer had check, she was perfectly sane. Unless you counted a slight gender confusion now and again, but she didn't think that should be an issue.

[Lotty]

A little forward she might have been she was realizing and she pulled her fingers back and rubbed her chin briefly as she continued to appraise the woman before her. She definitely didn't mean the whole drug thing as anything personal in the least, it was just a question...just to be sure. After all she had overheard some news of self-poisoning riders while dusting some old hides in the infirmary, since she had gotten little more out of the rumors than that alone she had assumed that just about any of the dragonriders in the weyr could be guilty of it. Mer speaking of flying shoes was enough to initiate a little bit of investigation.

Although now that she was starting to think about it, these types of questions should come after introductions. At least then that would explain her weirdo inquiries, "Oh I'm sorry. I'm Raebeli! Have I mentioned that yet?" She laughed a bit, putting her hand in front of her mouth coyly, "I'm the mindhealer here, if you didn't already know. I'm sort of famous for my odd questions..." That alone could have probably been explanation enough, but she thought she would indulge the other woman with a bit more. She was a chatty girl after all, "I just never know...I hear about some funny business with poison that the dragonriders do here," she shrugged.

Merridan did look vaguely familiar, and then the healer finally realized that it was at a hatching. Oh yes! She was the one who went to the brown...or erm vice versa. It was a shame that Rae had not paid more attention to her after being distracted by the other rarities of that hatching...namely those Impressions in the stands. Having gotten nowhere in her probing of those individuals - busy work with broken candidates seemed to hit her at the same exact time - she was starting to believe that maybe her chance for sincere research had begun. She could study the female brownriders in their native habitat.