Nightcrawlers (Mo'rya)

[Ivy]

The Weyrling barracks were not unfamiliar territory to Ivy - she knew some of those who Impressed from the previous clutch after all and she had visited once or twice. Socially of course and always during the day. This visit was much different from any of her previous visits though - it was nighttime, she was sneaking around, oh yeah and she was looking for Eros.

She hadn't a clue what had gotten into her wonderful little Blue. It wasn't like him to miss his nightly bath and oil routine - in fact if she tried to skip it he would often squawk and screech until she gave in. So this was very out of character for him. When she had tried to call him back he just flashed images of the Weyrling barracks - he was following a Gold.

Ivy could have left him to do what he wanted, but since this was all so out of character for him she decided to go find him. So here she was. At night. Practically crawling through the barracks whispering his name, "Eros... Eros!"

Where was that sharding Blue? And who was this lovely Gold firelizard he was suddenly so interested in??

[Kisha-Ra]

Mo’rya stalked though the more or less empty weyrling barracks with a mission in mind. Though his class were technically still weyrlings they’d all been moved out to their own weyrs some months ago once their dragons were adequate flyers. Ghost however seemed to disapprove, because occassionally she haunted Mo’rya’s old room in the barracks.

It had to be said that the boy so blithely striding down the dimly lit corridors didn’t look much like a bronzeweyrling. Not with pale blonde hair falling loose past his shoulders and the innocent look in his deep blue eyes, and especially not with his sapphire blue shirt bearing a precisely executed embroidiary pattern in golden yellow, brown and a dip dyed thread that faded from a near black blue out to almost white. It also had to be said that Mo’rya was very pleased with himself indeed for finding such close colour matches for all of his mindmates.

Hearing a soft tread and a whisper of a feminine voice, Mo’rya let his body shift downward into a crouch that had been drilled into him through countless hours of combat training and continued his journey toward his former room in a strange looking hunched over stalking gait. To judge by the sound of her voice Mo’rya’s path would perfectly intersect with the girl he heard, so in the spirit of mischief he decided to try and sneak up on her.

The female figure was nothing more than a vaugely coloured shadow from behind, all Mo’rya really noted about her was her red toned hair before he leapt up from his crouch and barreled down the corridor yelling ‘BOO!’ at the top of his lung, sure in the knowledge that there was no one here to wake.

[Ivy]

The fact that the Weyrling class had been moved out to their own weyrs a few months back slipped her mind – otherwise she wouldn’t have been so quiet and sneaking around. It took passing a few empty rooms for her to recall that fact, but finally she did and she said in a louder voice, “Eros! Come on!”

Just as she was about to turn into a room where she thought she’d caught a flash of the Blue, she heard steps and someone yelling “BOO!”. Caught completely off guard she let out a shriek and jumped, losing her balance as she turned to see who it was she fell on her arse. Blue eyes looked cross as she gazed at the figure coming at her. What was he doing here?

Oh yes, she recognized the boy, though they were not close. She’d stood for the clutch he Impressed at – a Bronze, if she recalled correctly. Forehead gathered into frown lines above her nicely shaped brows as she helped herself up once more. “Have you seen a blue firelizard?” She doubted he had, and could have asked what he was doing here but she was beginning to get quite worried about Eros.

[Kisha-Ra]

Mo’rya grinned a grin filled with mischief as his quarry leapt into the air and shrieked, it was a bit like scaring a cat he reflected. The grin however faltered when the assumed girl he’d scared turned out to be a fully grown woman, who tripped and landed right on her rear. Mo’rya’s grin did perk up at that for a moment.

When it seemed that the redhead was not about to launch into a blistering recrimination of his behaviour Mo’rya relaxed a little and absent mindedly tugged on a strand of his hair while he thought about where he’d seen her before. The question about the firelizard gave him a clue, Ghost’s hatching of course! He’d been rather preoccupied at the time but he recalled the bright greenish toned blue choosing this female.

‘Well since he’s one of Ghost’s hatchlings once I get her I think we’ll be able to find him quite easily.’ Mo’rya said flicking his hair back over his shoulder now that he was done thinking. ‘She’s bound to know where he is, she always does, must be women’s intuition or something.’ The bronze weyrling turned on his heel and crooked his first two fingers in a gesture for the woman to follow him into the room he’d once occupied in the weyrling barracks. ‘Ghost, I know you’re in here. Come out.’ The weyrling’s voice was at once tired and amused, the former because retrieving his errant pet from the barracks was annoying and the latter because her disapproval of his new quarters was kind of funny.

‘I told you she’d be here.’ The boy announced, pointing at the rather sickly looking shape of a large firelizard in one of the corners of the room.

[Ivy]

Ivy followed behind Mo'rya as he lead her down the hall to one of the empty rooms. She was quiet - not out of neccessity but because she had nothing to say. He'd mentioned that her Eros was one of his firelizard's hatchlings, a fact which she'd totally forgotten. She'd been so intent on watching the eggs and hatchlings when they escaped their egg prisons that she hadn't paid a lot of attention to the people who were there. Much less whose clutch it really was.

As they slipped into the room he pointed to the corner where his Gold was - Ghost, he'd called her. Ivy did recognize her from the hatching - but as she looked around she didn't see Eros anywhere. Sharding Blue. "Eros! EROS! Come out!"

Eros was sitting in the corner opposite of Ghost, hiding under a chair to watch the Gold quietly. He chirruped when his Ivy-slave came in and called his name though, hop-walking out from under the chair to regard her. What did she want? Couldn't she see he was busy admiring the Gold?

[Kisha-Ra]

Ghost looked up from an intense examination of her claws at the sound of Mo’rya’s voice. Had he decided to come back here then? The gold cocked her head to one side and chirped at her bonded inquiringly. As Eros emerged from under the chair Ghost watched him for a moment before turning her gaze back to Mo’rya. Had he seen her baby? Wasn’t he just a wonderful blue?

Mo’rya gave a boyish giggle, inspired by the innocent manner of the two firelizards occupying the room. ‘We don’t live here anymore Ghost. The room’s too small for Epifayrmuth now, plus they’ll be wanting it for the new weyrlings soon. Then what will you do?’ Mo’rya chattered away to his firelizard as he walked over to her corner and gathered her up. The queen chirped softly and snuggled against her bonded’s chest. Turning to Ivy the weyrling shrugged. ‘Well She didn’t exactly find him for us, but she did know where he was. Besides we didn’t really have to ask.’ He commented cheerfully, the statement underlined by Ghost’s affirming chirp. Of course she knew where her babies were.

‘I don’t know why but Ghost doesn’t seem to like our new quarters much.’ The boy continued chattering, though he looked down at his pet, who turned to cling to his shirt and look up at him. ‘She keeps trying to get me to move back in here.’

[Ivy]

"Hm, isn't your new place more spacious? You'd think she'd like that..." Ivy replied quietly as she moved further into the room to scoop up Eros. The Blue promptly squawked at her and hissed a bit, his long tail whipping back and forth in agitation. Why was his Ivy-slave grabbing him? He didn't want her to. He wanted her to leave him be so he could admire Ghost some more! He was making he look foolish in front of the Gold.

Despite his nails getting her forearm she didn't let him go, instead she just held onto him tighter and frowned, "Stop it Eros. You had me worried. Not that I should mind you being away from me, since when you are around you're annoying."

Looking back to Mo'rya she gave a bit of a smile, one that didn't quite reach her eyes, "Thanks... Hey if you see Beta don't tell her I was here, please? Even though its empty she'd probably freak out about me being in the Weyrling barracks... especially this late. Ivy, by the way."

Her introduction was nothing formal, just a quick nod and her name. She wasn't planning on being best friends with him or anything, just figured it'd be rude to not give him her name.