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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 26, 2010 15:47:03 GMT -5
No queen egg was no disappointment for Karisna. She was, after all, not, in her mind, queenrider material.
Barred was still her preference, although she had to admit if there was another of the big blue females clutched...
Eh. It wasn't her choice. And besides, right now she had her mind on other things. She was thinking about, not the future or dragons, but other aspects of her life. Her firelizards flitted around her and settled on a boulder.
She grinned at them. Yeah. Thinking about the eggs, bad idea. She had been left Standing once before, and she still did not know why. So, she was thinking about...things. The new recipe she had found and was going to try and talk the cooks into trying. Boys.
Anything. But. Eggs.
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 26, 2010 16:19:47 GMT -5
Willow, as usual, was crouched low on Tirasha's shoulder, eyeing his surroundings a tad suspiciously. Tianthe, of course, was not with him. Rather, she had just noticed a young Blue and Tan and thought she had better take advantage of the common opportunity of males. She rushed toward the boulder they had perched on, all set to get them riled up.
As usual, her actions went ignored. The last thing on Tirasha's list of things to do was to keep track of flighty Green flitters, whether or not they were hers. Willow's mindset was whatever his keeper's was. He focused, instead, on the Candidate girl up ahead.
Tirasha had finished her shift, but the Candidate didn't know that. They could be so funny; a shift in the Infirmary could very well be far worse than washing dishes or even having to help bathe a dragon. Usually they weren't, but the possibility was there. Tirasha wasn't often bothered by Candidates, but doing the bothering herself could result in a terrified face and a few laughs.
"Hey you, you doing anything?"
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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 27, 2010 16:10:54 GMT -5
The males definitely noticed Willow, flitting off the boulder to dance around her. That was the first alert Karisna had to the fact that somebody was approaching her.
Uh oh. The healer. She might well have...then again, work might not be such a bad thing. It would take her mind off of trying-not-to-think-about-those-eggs.
So, she answered truthfully. "Nothing important." Sure, it would get her in trouble, but she really didn't need any more time to worry about what kinds of dragons were in Nayarath's clutch.
No queen. She did have to remember that there was no queen. But what if she got left Standing *again*?
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 27, 2010 21:04:19 GMT -5
Tirasha pursed her lips. That had been disappointing. Sometimes the more lazy Candidates had even run from her- always fun for Tianthe- but she didn't even get a halfhearted excuse this time.
Someone honest she couldn't exactly lie too. "Pity. Neither am I." It wasn't work, but it was... getting stuck with Tirasha? It probably wasn't good for her to treat that like it was a bad thing.
What did Candidates talk about when they weren't working? Eggs? Tirasha wasn't horribly interested in that. They generally just meant more work for her. Hatchlings, particularly, it seemed, Nayarath's hatchlings, had a tendency to hurt people.
Tianthe gurgled and headed towards the lake, always one who felt most at home near water. It was a much better place to play than over rocks and dirt.
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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 28, 2010 18:19:05 GMT -5
OOC: Okay, apparently there is a queen egg? (Will be vague on the matter)
Kari laughed. "I was half hoping you would put me to work. I'm kind of bored." A Candidate hoping for work would have to be bored indeed.
The two males followed Tianthe. Kari watched them. "And your green is stealing my firelizards, you realize, right?" Of course, they were, at this point...adolescent males, if she had her timing right, and that was a cute girl leading them away. She wasn't going to blame them, at all, for being seduced by a lovely green.
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 28, 2010 19:38:13 GMT -5
OOC: A long debated thing. P: But the only IC post I've made with the clutch they were freshly laid, where I don't think you can tell, so I didn't specify.
Tirasha didn't think "kind of bored" quite cut it for a Candidate hoping to be assigned work. Tirasha didn't think she had ever been bored enough to go looking for it, but then again, one was rarely bored as a Healer with a Green fire-lizard. "I'm sure I could come up with something."
Not having any work didn't mean that she couldn't assign it, but she didn't particularly want to. There was little going on right now, and she would curse a Candidate to inventory on a day that she actually needed to avoid it.
Tirasha glanced Tianthe's way, and Willow watched her a little longer, although he didn't show any inclination to join her. "It's a habit of hers," Tirasha said with a shrug. "She likes flitters that will play." Tianthe was not so much out to flirt as to game, but she did prefer to do so with males, and males that joined her more often caught her... not that it mattered much, since she usually managed to get her eggs destroyed very quickly.
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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 29, 2010 21:35:39 GMT -5
Kari grinned. "Well, they've only had each other to play with all day. They're from the same clutch, mind, and pretty close to each other."
Having been raised together and Impressed to the same person, Wave and Lightning were emphatically bonded...she suspected they'd try to chase all the same females, with Wave trying for a queen. He was silly enough to.
Well, he'd earn himself sore wings trying that game. Not her problem. She would have some sympathy, but not very much.
Not very much at all.
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 30, 2010 16:43:23 GMT -5
"Then I'm sure Tianthe'll be a welcome break." Likely not any more creative than either male though, despite their extreme age difference. She was one creature who did not gain any wisdom as she gained years.
"These two are siblings too, but hardly close," Tirasha added, nodding a bit at Willow and obviously including Tianthe. Willow looked horrified by the very idea.
His color was a little off, but his personality was very much that of a Bronze. Tianthe was even more the precise epitome of her kind of a flitter, but Tirasha could have gone without that.
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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 30, 2010 18:30:12 GMT -5
Kari glanced after them. "I wonder if I'll end up with a green dragon." The chances, even with all the new colors, were fairly high. Then she studied Willow. "He *is* an interesting color. Not unattractive, but not exactly classic bronze."
Of course, then they had Nayarath, with the red on her, and...well. Before coming to the Weyr she had worried all the greens and blues would look the same, but they were a rainbow of shades, unmistakeably green or blue, but still different each from the other. The barreds seemed to have even more variety and some of the lighter browns almost looked like tans until you saw their 'points'.
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 31, 2010 16:27:50 GMT -5
Tirasha shrugged. What Candidates would Impress was hardly something she was interested in, and she held Greenriders in low esteem. For a girl, they were a likely thing; it was basically them or Barreds. Tirasha had heard Nayarath had managed another queen egg, but there was only one of those, and plenty of girls.
"No, not quite." Willow's color seemed like a funny change in their conversation, but the Candidate had certainly been staring at him long enough to make some comment. "I guess off-colors are fairly common, but I hadn't known that before coming here."
She had seen plenty of fire-lizards before coming the Weyr, and there was some variety between them, but somehow she had thought there wouldn't be in dragons. Instead, there was a lot more among them than there was among flitters.
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Post by ShadowReine on Dec 31, 2010 19:16:09 GMT -5
Kari did not feel anything wrong with greens, although she found the slightly larger barreds more attractive. Of course, she had paid so little attention to the eggs, tried not to think of them so hard, that she had, so far, 'missed' the queen egg.
"I didn't exactly know anything about dragons. One advantage of not Impressing first time is I got more time to learn."
Tan and Wave were tagging each other, showing off for the older green. Ignoring the humans completely, of course. A female, even a fickle one, was far more interesting than even Karisna in their minds.
Okay. She was thinking about eggs again, and even said, "I think I'd prefer a barred over a green."
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Post by Sparrow on Dec 31, 2010 20:51:22 GMT -5
Tirasha smiled weakly. "That's one way to look at it. All I knew about them is what I knew about fire-lizards, which, from what I hear, isn't much." She had the rest of her life to keep learning about them, but, as someone who would never actually Impress to one, it would never be a complete lesson. She could tolerate that; dragons weren't her only focus and, quite honestly, far from her first.
Tianthe was not very content with the younger flitters playing with each other again, and dove through Wave's path, insuring that their not colliding was a very near miss. He could tag his brother, but could he catch up to her? She swirled away again, chattering tauntingly.
Tirasha glanced towards Tianthe, back towards Karisna, and laughed. "I can believe that. Although there do seem to be some very green Barreds." Obviously they had somehow split from Greens- all the greener Barreds had a more Green personality. Or so Tirasha had observed so far.
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Post by ShadowReine on Jan 1, 2011 16:49:43 GMT -5
Karisna nodded. "Well. I guess I'll have to trust them. I mean, whatever dragon picks me will have to put up with me. I'm sure they'll do it right."
There was green, barred, sky...that was the color. And then the queens, and if there was, somehow, a queen... Dared she even think she might have a chance?
She wanted to not care, of course... "Besides, after having been left on the Sands once, I refuse to worry about color." Not that she had before. "It's just a matter of hoping *one* of them will pick me. I'm not so bad, right?" She grinned, showing that her self-deprecation was far from serious.
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Post by Sparrow on Jan 1, 2011 18:56:19 GMT -5
"That's what they say. I've seen some odd match-ups though." Tirasha wasn't a sure believer in the "dragons always make the best choice" idea. Why have an egg touching then? Wasn't that to try and get the developing babies to familiarize themselves with the minds of the Candidates? Some would pick an egg and stick with it, and often the hatchling from that egg went to that person. Outside influences were entirely possible. It wasn't entirely the dragon.
"Sounds like a good idea." Willow chirped affirmative. Some people, despite all that was said about the relationship between human and dragon, complained about the color they got. The uncontents always ended up in the infirmary at some point.
Like Tirasha had any idea. "Willow's tolerating you. That's a good sign." She laughed while Willow gave her an irritated look. Picky old Bronze.
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Post by ShadowReine on Jan 2, 2011 20:00:57 GMT -5
Kari considered. "I think that there are all kinds of different 'good relationships', though. I mean, I wouldn't want a dragon that said yes to me all the time, I'd want one willing to tell me when I'm being a dunderhead."
Which some dragons definitely would. Although the rider's personality likely did influence the dragon, the dragon being a baby at the time of Impression and looking to the rider for guidance, not all dragons ended up *like* their riders.
Some ended up the exact opposite. "Eh. I don't get the choice, so...whatever I get, I'll trust in it being the right thing...the right dragon for me. Pretty sure it'll be female. I can't see myself with a male."
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Post by Sparrow on Jan 2, 2011 20:39:24 GMT -5
"Only someone totally wherrybrained would want that." Someone that agreed all the time was no fun to be around. Life took critique and competition; when Tirasha saw odd match-ups, she didn't call them so because they occasionally disagreed and called each other dunderheads.
Willow would probably have a lot to say along those lines, could he talk. Tirasha was glad he didn't. His body language was quite enough for her.
"Female, but not a Green." Tirasha smirked. "That leaves you with what, two options in this clutch? And they're both relatively rare." One queen, probably a max of three Barreds. Tirasha wasn't sure she had seen a clutch yet with more than three of them. And how many Candidates? Probably at least ten or fifteen girls, twenty to thirty boys... and a Barred could go to a boy. The probabilities weren't great.
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Post by ShadowReine on Jan 3, 2011 21:09:17 GMT -5
"Unless there's another of the skies. The only one so far was from a tan cross violet, but they could come from tan cross gold too."
Kari grinned. "I know I'll likely get a green, but if I had the choice I'd...wait. There IS a queen egg?" She'd just put two and two together.
"I'm a dunderhead. Ignoring the eggs so pointedly I missed that." Not that she expected to Impress her, but...there was always that small sliver of possibility.
"I'm guessing it won't be a gold, though, not with a tan sire."
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Post by Sparrow on Jan 3, 2011 22:27:37 GMT -5
"Yeah, I guess that depends on if the Tans are the reason for them." That would, hopefully, be discovered in this clutch. If there was one, yes. If there wasn't, Tirasha would figure no. Some people might still hope for some possibility.
Tirasha raised her eyebrows. A Candidate- a female Candidate- wasn't aware Nayarath had laid a queen? Incredible. "Yep."
"That's what most people are guessing." Tirasha shrugged. "Violet definitely seems most likely. Which is fine by me; they seem friendlier than Golds." Nayarath did not have a reputation for playing nice, whereas playing was all Jorindath did. As a person who had to work with dragons in their grumpiest state, Tirasha preferred nice ones.
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Post by ShadowReine on Jan 4, 2011 17:02:14 GMT -5
Kari shook her head. "See how much attention *I* pay to what's going on. Yeah. Maybe I'll Impress a green after all...I'm about as silly as one!"
Of course, there wasn't as much talk in the barracks about the queen as there might have been. It didn't seem any of the current batch of female candidates had gold fever. Kari certainly didn't. And yes. It was most likely a violet, then.
Violets were attractive beasts, and she did entertain the image of herself with one for a long moment. It seemed unlikely, but somehow likelier than gold.
"And I suppose with...what happened to Shador...we could use one." They had had another gold, but she had gone to start a new Weyr. Which made sense. Too many queens in one place, Kari knew, and clutch sizes dropped dramatically. And the chances of catfights between them grew.
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Post by Sparrow on Jan 4, 2011 21:56:59 GMT -5
"I'll remember to not discount the possibility if I'm ever making bets." People didn't bet on who a Green would Impress though. Not that Tirasha bet much anyways; she didn't have the money for risks she wasn't all that interested in.
Tirasha nodded and absently stroked Willow. "According to the history books, two queens isn't much to have in a Weyr." It seemed like a lot to her though. Even if each only rose once a year, that was at least forty new hatchlings each time. And she had heard that clutches in the old days were far larger than what queens laid now.
It sounded like a lot more insanity than she ever wanted to deal with.
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