Wish there was a way to say I'm sorry..."
Parents: Holders (Deceased)
Siblings: Cheney
Age: 22, 15 at Impression
Hair: Red-Brown
Eyes: Green
Personality: Seda is confident and independent, if a little overprotective of her younger brother.
She's also rather mischevious.
Past: Seda's parents were killed when she was nine. Ever since then, she and her brother, Cheney, have been living on their own, taking what they can get from the nearby forest and stealing what they can't.
Dragon: Green Malyjednoeth
"Seda! Wait, hold on!" Cheney called, running to catch up.
Seda stopped and turned to look at him, her green eyes dancing with mischeif. "I told you you should have stayed at the hold." She said.
"But I wanna get a fire lizard." He replied. "A Bronze."
"Well, I don't know if there are any eggs at all around here. If there are none at the next beach then we'll have to turn back." She answered him.
Seda and Cheney had been orphaned when she was only nine, and Cheney was three. since then, they had lived on their own, finding food in the forest and living in the nearby hold. Today they were out searching for fire lizard eggs, Cheney hoping to Impress one. Seda wasn't particularly looking forward to it, it'd just be another mouth to feed.
She looked up at the dark, clouded sky. "Perhaps we should turn back, it looks like there's a storm coming."
Cheney frowned. "Couldn't we just go to this last beach, then go back? Please?"
Seda sighed. "I guess, but we better hurry." They ran to the last beach, surrounded by huge rocks. The waves were choppy from the coming storm. "Cheney, be careful. The rocks are slippery." Seda called behind her.
The sky was gray, and rain was starting to fall. The waves were threatening to flood the tiny beach. Seda climbed over a large, gray boulder, looked up, and realized she couldn't see Cheney anywhere.
"Cheney?" She yelled. The beach was already dangerously flooded.
"Sed-Aaahh!" She climbed over another boulder, and saw that Cheney had slipped and fell into the waves. Worse, he was being swept out to sea!
"Cheney!" Seda yelled, jumping from rock to rock, trying to get near. Cheney's answer was drowned out by a crash of thunder. She slipped, and barely caught on to a rock before she, too, got swept away. She climbed up onto another rock, searching for a sign of Cheney.
Her heart sank. She didn't see him anywhere. She heard something above her, and looked up to see a large chunk of rock crashing down on her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Seda woke up to a splitting headache and a large, green head staring down at her with swirling yellow eyes. The dragon lifted her head, and gazed toward her rider. The woman came over and knelt by her side.
"Are you alright? You were out for two days." She asked.
Seda sat up. "Yes, I think I'm okay...Where's Cheney?"
"Cheney?"
"My little brother."
The rider looked away. "We didn't find anywhere else." She said.
Seda stared. It wasn't true, Cheney couldn't be...
I'm sure your brother is fine. She didn't hear the voice out loud, rather, it was in her head.
Seda looked around, before realizing that it was the green dragon talking to her.
"Sopaith's right, he's probably fine. My name's Narize." The woman helped her up.
"Seda." She answered. She told Narize what had happened, still worrying about Cheney.
"If you have nowhere else to go, We could bring you back to Quinalt Weyr with us. Hey! In fact, there's a clutch on the sands. Why don't you stand as a candidate?" Narize said.
Seda gasped. She had never expected to have the chance to Impress. She had always had to take care of Cheney. But now...
She smiled. "Yeah, why not?"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Seda turned away, disappointed. As soon as she had come to Quinalt Weyr, she had found out that there were no candidate spots open. She had come all this way, for nothing...
"I'm sorry, Seda. I didn't know the slots would fill up so quick."
She turned to see Narize behind her.
"It's ok."
"...Sopaith says there's a spot open in a clutch at Opal Moon Weyr, if you want to go."
"Opal Moon?"
Yes. Perhaps you would Impress one of Ariath's children instead. If you hurry, that is.
"Ariath?" Seda looked at the green searchdragon.
"The mother of the clutch. A black, so there's a good possiblity for rares." Narize said.
Seda shrugged. Maybe it would help to keep her mind off of her missing brother, if she went to Opal Moon to Impress.
"Ok, let's go."