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Post by ShadowReine on Aug 23, 2011 20:42:24 GMT -5
B'can considered that. "If we're going to show off, though, we should try to get one of all of the colors. Or at least something of a spread. I could see Jorindath not minding being admired. And I know Apolloth would go for it."
He glanced over at the tan. "And expect an extra bath first, of course. Cream shows dirt...although not as badly as white. Green, at least, doesn't...although I'm sure she's as vain as any dragon."
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Post by Sparrow on Sept 4, 2011 20:27:04 GMT -5
K'laon laughed. "Just watch out for when the smaller dragons try to steal the show." Which they would, just because they could. And it probably wouldn't go over well among Bronzes, queens, and Apolloth.
"She likes to be looked at, there's no doubt about that."
Amirinth had quit her dancing but was now in shallower water, lying on her back, preoccupying herself with sloshing her tail through the water and trying to grab it's end in her forepaws. She was failing miserably at it too.
K'laon wouldn't call her vain. Just an attention-hungry clown.
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Post by ShadowReine on Sept 4, 2011 22:35:45 GMT -5
"Have you ever met a dragon that didn't appreciate being admired?" B'can challenged. "Some more than others, but I haven't managed to find a shy or coy one yet. Freyjath's the closest, I suppose."
Coy...yeah. That was a good word for that particular, rather atypical green, but B'can suspected it was at least in part an act. Who knew...well, T'mar did, and he wasn't about to ask the young greenrider questions about his dragon.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 10, 2011 22:51:45 GMT -5
"Not yet, and I guess I've seen a lot more dragons than you have." K'laon chuckled. "Freyjath is probably the closest. But, you know, acting shy's just another way of getting attention. Particularly when you're a Green."
She didn't go physically looking for it like most Greens did, but she got it. "I think I'm happy with an outgoing dragon though." He didn't have to worry about Amirinth. She was silly, but it was totally normal. K'laon didn't doubt that T'mar wondered about Freyjath every now and then.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 11, 2011 20:21:53 GMT -5
"Greens always get attention. Well, from males, anyway." The barred dragons seemed a little bit less openly flirtatious, although they still got attention. "Although Apolloth doesn't think anything less than a queen worthy of him these days."
If he lost Jorindath's next flight, then the tan might change his opinion, but B'can doubted it. He'd just fly twice as hard next time in his determination to win the beautiful violet back...
B'can, for his part, trusted Inolyn. Flight or no flight, she would come back to him. He knew it.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 12, 2011 14:19:53 GMT -5
"I don't doubt it." K'laon wasn't sure Apolloth had ever thought anything less than a queen was worthy of him. Luckily, queens seemed to be of the same sort of opinion. Less than a tan was unlikely to win.
Really the only other dragon to consider was Ekirith, whose habit of catching everything let him remain in the running. But the brown was tan-sized anyway.
"Seems like Apolloth's got pretty good chances with them anyway."
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 12, 2011 22:30:00 GMT -5
"At least with the only one that matters to me." B'can grinned. "Queens are fickle, of course, but I can hope queen riders are less so."
He really did want to spend the rest of his life weyrmated to Inolyn, but he knew that she might have other ideas. And he knew he would never try to force her to stay a moment longer than she chose. He was not that kind of a man...and he would never become that kind of a man.
"Of course, Apolloth thinks he's better than any bronze. Maybe that helps too."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 13, 2011 20:59:48 GMT -5
"That remains to be seen, although I think your chances are pretty good too." K'laon grinned. Kora, it seemed, was fickle, and B'can wasn't Inolyn's first lover, but they were humans, not dragons. Humans tended to look for commitment a lot more.
Of course, K'laon felt like his commitment to Amirinth was plenty fulfilling and was happy to avoid it with people. That was probably the case with more riders than he. But Inolyn didn't seem dependent on the habits of her dragon.
"Confidence is good." K'laon laughed. The queens would surely go for better than bronze if they could, too.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 14, 2011 14:23:19 GMT -5
"I think queens are attracted to males that believe in themselves. But eh. Who knows. They're mostly interested in as many eggs as possible."
Whilst greens were, supposedly, interested only in their own pleasure. Who knew, though, what really went through a female dragon's mind. Maybe her rider...maybe. B'can knew that Apolloth cared about beating the other males as much as anything else. It was all a giant competition in which the females were judge, jury and...what was the opposite of executioner?
"But he's a great dragon...he just knows it a little too much."
A tan sized snort could be heard at B'can's words.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 15, 2011 22:48:22 GMT -5
"A confident male's got more power to convince he'll get her more, I suppose." Not that there was such a thing as a bronze lacking in confidence. Apparently they were more rare than a quiet green.
His gaze wandered Amirinth's way to see she was now preoccupied gazing at the green light that filtered through her wingsails. He was sure she would give a few points to a male that told her he could sire a handsome clutch, if only for the laughs it would provide. She certainly wasn't interested in making one herself.
K'laon turned back to Apolloth when he snorted. "You know, for such a great tan, he doesn't make a bath any short task." K'laon likely wasn't helping, standing here distracting B'can from working. "That's behavior that sounds very like a certain green that I know well."
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 16, 2011 16:43:24 GMT -5
B'can laughs. "He wants to luxuriate in the water so he's stalling me. No big deal. I have time."
He wasn't bothered if it took a while to bathe Apolloth...nobody could hand him any other duties while he was in the middle of it and it usually got him clean as well.
Reminded of what he was here for, though, B'can waded over to the snorting dragon. "Let's get you properly clean, big fellow.
Apolloth...snorted again. Probably at being called big fellow, even if it was accurate and generally a source of pride for the big tan.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 16, 2011 22:35:11 GMT -5
"Well, if you're going to work, it's probably time I took my leave." He had offered to work when he first arrived, but he was reconsidering that now.
"I think Amirinth's probably cleaned herself up well enough anyway. Seems like a good idea to go before she thinks I need some cleaning too." Something he probably shouldn't have said out loud, or thought, or let ever occur to him in any matter, because her head snapped up, her expression the characteristic up-to-no-good one. K'laon backed toward the shore.
"Well, I'll see you around B'can."
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 17, 2011 19:45:21 GMT -5
"Take care. Don't let your dragon drown you." Because yeah, he knew that expression...and dragon versus rider water fights could only end one way.
They always ended with one very, very wet rider...and usually a very wet Candidate or two to boot. It wasn't fair anyway. In addition to the size difference, no dragon alive cared about getting wet. Except to like it. Didn't stop them from realizing that clothed riders didn't share that opinion...he bet even Nayarath snagged Kora that way sometimes, for all that she had the dignity of a queen.
As the greenrider headed for the shore, though, he turned back to help Apolloth get the places he couldn't reach himself clean. Which was, the tan had informed him many times, what riders were really for.
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