Forming Friendships (Jenthy)

[Missa]

An answering smile rose at his reassurance, and she drew away slowly, pulling her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. She figured she'd taken him by surprise, and even now she was slowly calming her heart rate down to something vaguely normal. She was relaxing and as she did, Mermaiyeth turned her attention back to Kayth, a physical sign that Beka was in control again, enough not to panic.

Exactly. Listen to him. He makes sense. Maybe not at the weyr, Beka had always been truly careful with her words at the weyr but there had been times when she was sure that she wasn't making sense. Her grasp on talking hadn't been any stronger than her grasp on reading and writing still was. She'd come from never having to talk, to being asked seemingly endless questions, shoved into situations that required her to talk.

Once again taken by surprise by his question, she automatically glanced at Mermaiyeth for reassurance, or perhaps the answer, she wasn't sure. Who was she? Really? She was Beka, or Rebekah, depending who called her. She'd been nothing, a no one, a problem that needed to be eradicated. Then she'd come to the weyr, Mermaiyeth and then Valiant had seen something in her, she was Mermaiyeth's rider, but were they a part of who 'Beka' was? Was it possible to feel like two people sometimes?
"Um... Mermaiyeth's bonded... A dragonrider?" The latter part of teh statement was said as a question, Beka almost afraid he'd shake his head and claim she was her first thought, still nothing.
You are Mine. You are not nothing.

[Jenth]

D’mas smiled, that response was pretty much what he had been expecting. It was also the answer. “See? Now that isn’t so bad, nor was it hard, was it? Mermaiyeth could have chosen nearly any other girl on Pern, and they would have taken her, but she didn’t want any of them. Mermaiyeth wanted you, and do dragons Impress to bad people?” Did they? Well no one he knew anyway.

“Does it matter who you were 2 Turns ago? There is no way we are the same people back then; we are Dragonriders now. Our dragons are the most important being in our lives, in return for taking care of them they take care of us and Pern.”

((kinda fail, but my muse is shot)

[Missa]

Glancing up at her dragon as D'mas spoke, Beka smiled slightly as Mermiayeth inclined her head very politely to D'mas, agreeing with him but not interuppting him to speak. He was right in a way, though wasn't he? Mermaiyeth was one of the first barred's, ever, and she was the most loving, beautiful creature on Pern. And for some reason, some silly reason, she'd chosen her. She'd wanted her.
"I don't know." Answering honestly, Beka laughed as Mermaiyeth shook her head slightly, obviously tempted to snort at her, but wasn't sure her interuption would be welcome.

"I guess not..." He was right after all. Beka wasn't Rebekah, a frightened child with nothing and no one, she was Beka, of Mermaiyeth. She was someone, she had friends... And family in the form of her dragon. Smiling softly, she nodded, hugging D'mas gently, almost hesitently.
"Thank you D'mas."

{Faaails xD}

[Jenth]

D'mas hugged her breifly before leting her go again. Beka was all better now, couldn't have an emotional dragonrider floating around. "Its no problem at all, I was glad to help doing my duty as a bronzerider." And he gave her a long, sweeping bow.

Memory had decided that she had had enough playing with the dragons and flew back to her owner, Eron not far behind. Kayth shook his neck, loosening muscles forced still so not to desturb the little cousins.