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Post by Sparrow on Oct 9, 2010 11:57:25 GMT -5
"All three of my flitters are cuter than Thunder then," Aleyi held out a hand to Tuck, who sniffed uncertainly at her fingers before letting her pet him. "Even if with some it's only through appearance." Brooke.
Pip and Tuck were irritating, but utterly sweet and cute as well. Luckily Brooke wasn't drawn in by that so they couldn't get away with everything. At the moment though, the Gold was more focused on trying to get Aleyi to pet her instead of Tuck. Pip chirpled to Thunder. Forget that Gold; she was far more attractive.
"And every flitter thinks he's the best so I really don't think there's much to be done about it." Even nervous Tuck, who was now sidling up against Aleyi's hand. Much to Brooke's chagrin, she continued to scratch the Brown.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 9, 2010 14:57:26 GMT -5
R'mer rolled his eyes as Thunder changed targets, sidling towards the green in the same 'I'm subtle, honest' manner with which he had approached Brooke.
"Blues," he noted. "Tinth is almost as bad, if he fancies a particular female."
R'mer was glad Aleyi did not ride green, although he did not voice that as he had in the past. She was his friend, and she was no more attracted to him than he to her, and he was glad there would never be any such complications between them.
"What a crazy fair we have between us," he noted to his friend. "If I ever do get another one, I am sure it will only get worse."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 10, 2010 8:41:02 GMT -5
Pip gurgled and quickly filled the small gap between her and Thunder. She wasn't even going to try to be subtle. Aleyi doubted such a thing was possible for her.
"Of course, Greens are worse," Aleyi added. It was definitely a good thing neither of them had gotten one of those to ride. Blues were only horrible flirts because the Greens were constantly encouraging them.
"Yes. And I think Brooke is hoping that if you do get another one, it'll be Bronze." The Gold gave a snippy chirp to deny her ever having thought of that.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 10, 2010 16:49:04 GMT -5
R'mer eyed. "If I get a bronze and it chases Brooke, I am hiding." Firelizard flights did not generally result in human shenanigans...but it had been known, especially if the humans concerned were friends or, of course, attracted to one another.
Mostly he was teasing Aleyi, knowing she would not be at all interested. "But I'm sure Brooke would like to see more bronzes around. I know one of the young greenriders has one around somewhere...
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 17, 2010 8:44:41 GMT -5
Aleyi laughed, not particularly worried about that. "If he wins, I'm sure he'll be hiding before too long too." It had been a while since she had last taken one, but while she had eggs Brooke could be a pretty pushy mate.
"Oh, she probably would." Were there more Bronzes about for her to bother with, Aleyi could easily see Brooke becoming just as bad a flirt as Pip. That in mind... she didn't exactly mind that there didn't seem to be a lot of them.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 17, 2010 16:29:29 GMT -5
"She is a nice queen, though. Maybe I'll attend her next Hatching...Tinth would like me to get another. I think I already said that, though."
And a gold clutch made it a little less likely that he would simply get *another* blue. Not that he didn't love his blues, but he would sort of like something, well, different if he got another firelizard.
A tan would be nice. Or, heck, a barred or green...a female to keep Thunder occupied.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 17, 2010 16:47:00 GMT -5
"Yeah. I have no clue when her next hatching will be though." It had been a long time since Brooke had last risen, and she was showing no signs of doing so again. "You may be pretty safe saying Tinth you'll get your next flitter from her."
Fire-lizards usually mated in the summer, and Brooke had missed that. Aleyi wasn't sure if the Gold would end up waiting until the next summer or make an odd winter Flight. Either way, she seemed to off-schedule in comparison to other queens. Aleyi didn't really like dealing with eggs and didn't mind too much.
"Whenever it happens though, I'll try and shoo a Barred your way so Thunder has a buddy." Aleyi laughed. For the moment, Pip was filling the slot, but the chances of her sticking around were next to zero. The only reliable thing about Greens was that they weren't.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 18, 2010 20:44:07 GMT -5
R'mer laughed. "Rather a barred than a green...barreds seem to be steadier. As long as I don't get one like that awful flit of Gwenduinne's."
Spunky was pretty well known around the Weyr...and not in a good way. "Of course, I wouldn't turn a green down...once they've Impressed, you're stuck with them, after all."
And he wouldn't mind being 'stuck with' any firelizard, to be honest...or he would. He had very, very mixed feelings on the matter.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 19, 2010 16:04:11 GMT -5
Aleyi grinned. "I'll keep that in mind. But at least Spunky makes some cute babies." Tuck and Pip were her offspring, anyways. They weren't at all like her- luckily. Aleyi didn’t think she would have been able to manage that.
She didn't have a particularly firm hold on them even now. "Yeah, although I think I'll be keeping very clear of all Green hatchlings in the future." Aleyi didn't want to risk Impressing two of them, and she was sure to be subjected to plenty of hatchlings in the future, seeing as she had two clutching flitters.
Keeping females was a dangerous job when you didn't want to risk getting more fire-lizards. But like R'mer had said, she was stuck with them now.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 19, 2010 17:21:37 GMT -5
R'mer aha'd. "Those are hers? I heard she tends to lay large clutches for a barred. Which doesn't make me envy Gwen."
At least the woman didn't have to worry about a broody dragon...and R'mer had been very glad when he came here that no man, even one who preferred his own sex, faced that risk. Broody queens still scared him a little.
Tinth would never sire a clutch either, which was almost certainly for the best. "I'm rather glad the barred dragons aren't fertile...we'd be over-run, even if they aren't as randy as greens."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 20, 2010 19:03:49 GMT -5
"Yep. I hope I never find out what kind of clutches Pip lays." Aleyi had no plans to try and keep track of Pip's clutches like some people did with their Greens. Pip would be the sort to lose them all too. She would lay them in the fireplace or in a tunnelsnake burrow or something brainless like that.
Aleyi was perfectly content only ever dealing with Brooke's clutches. Brooke probably wouldn't mind either; it would keep more attention on her.
"Oh, I'm glad too," Aleyi agreed. "Jerglith might have sired a clutch, and that would be bad news." She just couldn't see her dragon watching over a clutch, no matter how small it was likely to be. Baby Jerglith's might be cute, but dragon genetics didn't really work like that.
But even though Mermaiyeth hadn't clutched, she had still claimed Jerglith firmly as a mate, like queen's usually did. Aleyi wouldn't mind that as much if she only knew what to do with Beka.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 21, 2010 19:32:42 GMT -5
R'mer grinned. "Tinth babies are definitely scarier. So are Thunder babies." He was sure the blue had chased Pip more than once...and certain he'd sired a green clutch or two, but...they were green clutches.
Small, unlikely to be found by their owners, and basically just adding to the ever-growing wild flitter population. And thus, not R'mer's problem or anyone else's.
"And one clutching female has to be enough...can you imagine how the Weyrwoman handles Nayarath *and* Violet. At least they don't tend to rise too close together..."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 21, 2010 20:14:22 GMT -5
Aleyi laughed. "Yeah, I'd keep out of the way of all their babies." Luckily for them, the only one making them would be Thunder, and he would be catching mostly Greens. Possibly even Pip, but Aleyi hardly paid attention to her flights, and of course Pip wasn't strict about mates.
"Yeah, but she's sure going to be stuck with eggs for a while now," Aleyi added. First would be her Violet's eggs, and not too much later Nayarath would be laying her own. "I don't know how I could stand that, but it's just another reason I'm not a queenrider." She shook her head.
How anyone could be one was beyond her. One miniature queen was plenty for Aleyi.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 22, 2010 21:25:29 GMT -5
R'mer grinned. "I don't know one single guy who could do it. Probably why queens don't Impress to men."
Women were, he had noticed, generally more patient. Not always. "I hope Nayarath lays a good clutch. The flight was a decent length, at least."
The tan sire might create skies and charcoals, he thought, considering. They had only shown up, so far, in the tan-violet clutches.
"We can always use more dragons, after all."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 24, 2010 13:36:12 GMT -5
"Probably." Despite the Bronze that had Impressed to a girl, Aleyi was fairly confident no queen would ever impress to a man. There was a big difference in responsibilities between a queen and a high-ranking male.
Aleyi nodded. "I hope so. It would be pretty disappointing for Wuith if after all that work the clutch wasn't good." He had sired perfectly good hatchlings with Kelth though, and Aleyi didn't see much reason for a Tan to be incompatible with a Gold.
"I wonder if we'll get more of those odd colors." Funny even after just a couple generations of dragons, she considered Violets, Tans, and Barreds normal, but the newer ones not. But Nayarath hadn't clutched them yet, while the rest of the colors had been clutched by all the queens. It made them stick out a bit.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 24, 2010 15:32:05 GMT -5
R'mer shrugged. "Does it matter? The only thing that matters is size, how well the flame, and whether the females can clutch. A sky can just take the place of a brown, as they don't seem to be fertile."
He had a good point there. "And barreds fly more or less the same as blues. We haven't had to tweak the wings that much to deal with all of these new colors. It does give more opportunities to the women, though. Leadership...and I'm betting Razuth's rider is perfectly capable, or he would never have chosen her.
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 24, 2010 18:19:19 GMT -5
"Not really, I was just wondering." Obviously she shouldn't have done so out loud."I wasn't insulting them." Maybe Tinth was rubbing off on R'mer. Her friend suddenly seemed to have a lot more to say than he had a moment ago.
"Obviously the dragons are shifting towards a preference for females," Aleyi said with a roll of her eyes. It was perhaps a little true- once Greens didn't even glance at the women on the Sands, but now many of them were ridden by females. But there were still far more male riders, and Aleyi didn't think that was going to change.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 25, 2010 16:47:02 GMT -5
R'mer shook his head. "I'm betting it will be an unusual situation. For whatever reason, she was the only person with the right mind for a bronze on the Sands, so much more suitable than any of the boys that he picked her. I don't see it happening again any time soon.
He really didn't, and a queen going to a male would take an even more unusual set of circumstances surely. "I'm actually surprised the dragonet didn't just pluck somebody out of the audience. They've been known to do that, after all."
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Post by Sparrow on Oct 26, 2010 16:00:40 GMT -5
"Well... yeah." It was too early for sarcasm anyways. Aleyi went to take another drink of her klah and was disappointed to find the mug empty. Shoot. She had been feeling slightly energized for all of five minutes.
She shrugged. "I think that they'd rather pick a compatible mind nearby than pull someone out of the stands." They were babies, and in her experience those always went to the nearest available caretaker.
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Post by ShadowReine on Oct 27, 2010 22:33:40 GMT -5
R'mer shrugged. "Maybe. Tinth didn't take any time finding me." He sipped his klah. "Most of them seem to decide pretty quickly. Of course, they have to Impress before they eat."
He did wonder about that. Of course, flits...and to an extent whers...had to be fed to cement the bond. Dragons seemed to form the bond first then yell at their new mindmate for food.
Ah well.
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