FOOD!!! Angou sat on A'liss' chest and creeled. The firelizard was a turn old, but still felt that he had full rights to cry like a hatchling when he was hungry.
The bronze-rider groaned and rolled over, not yet ready to take on the world. "Angou...breakfast later. Sleep now."
A'liss... Heraemth nudged him. Could we please have breakfast now? You've already slept in. The bronze dragon was getting impatient.
A'liss groaned again. "It can't be morning. It's too soon. Go tell the sun it's early."
The bronze snorted. You're just tired because you were up all night with Aliana.
A'liss couldn't help smirking. "We were in bed."
Heraemth, already a large weyrling, put both his front feet on the bed and stared at his rider, eye to eye. You were not sleeping.
The rider pulled the covers up over his head and continued smirking. Angou, hungry and unsympathetic towards his master's excuse, climbed under the covers and nipped him.
"OW!!" A'liss leapt from the bed, dumping the brown flit onto the ground. "I'm up! I'm up!"
"Just getting up?" Aliana never bothered knocking any more. The Searchrider was already dressed, breakfasted and washed, despite the fact that she hadn't been sleeping the night before either. "Aren't you going to be late for weyrling classes?"
"Not today." A'liss pulled a shirt and some pants on. "Free day. Lots of people are heading down to a gather in some hold." He shot a glare at Angou and Heraemth. "I was planning on sleeping in."
You did sleep in. BREAKFAST!!! Heraemth headed for the door, Angou riding on his back.
A'liss covered his ears when Heraemth shouted. It didn't do any good, the voice was in his head after all, it was simply a reflex. Aliana smiled realising what had happened. "The dragon has spoken. C'mon."
The bronze-rider put his arm around her waist and the two followed A'liss' hungry lifemates to breakfast.
* * * Aliana watched the chaos in awe for a moment before speaking. "Are you going to stop them?"
A'liss smiled, looking up from tuning his harp to see Heraemth chasing Angou around the beach. After breakfast they'd decided to use their free-day as best they could be getting out of the weyr. Neither one of them really wanted to go to the gather, Heraemth wasn't allowed to between yet anyways, so they'd opted for walking down to the beach. Xynoth was farther out in the waves, enjoying her bath and staying out of the way of the hyperactive Angou and his persuer. "No." The bronze-rider strummed a few chords and continued fiddling with the tuning nobs.
"It sounds fine to me." Aliana laid her head on A'liss shoulder.
He smiled and played a few bars of a gypsy song. "And what do you know of music?"
The green-rider swatted him. "What do you know of music dragonrider?"
A'liss sighed. "Not enough to stay in practice."
"You had other things to do...like stop your dragon from eating your firelizard." Aliana was distracted by the chase again.
"Rae won't eat Angou." A'liss smiled. "Would you?"
The bronze dragon proudly brought the firelizard back to A'liss. He released Angou's tail and the brown fell into A'liss' lap. I'd chew, but I'd never swallow.
Infantile. Xynoth climbed from the ocean, green hide shimmering.
Heraemth shook himself dry, his eyes whirling darker. I'm practically grown Xy.
And yet you still act like a hatchling. Xynoth seemed oddly brighter than normal.
"Xynoth!" Aliana stood up. "What do you think you're doing?" Xynoth and Heraemth normally got along fine.
And you've now become so old you don't know what fun is! Heraemth nipped at the bigger adult green.
"Rae!" A'liss soon joined Aliana standing up. "Would you two just calm down!!"
"What's gotten into you?" Aliana whispered the question, after all, she already knew the answer. "Uh oh."
Xynoth didn't bother answering Heraemth, she just roared and leapt into the air. The smaller bronze was not far behind her. Heraemth was kind enough to fill his befuddled rider in on what was actually happening. She's flying.
"I can see she's flying! All dragon fly! What's so..." It finally dawned on him. "Oh." There was a moment of silence. "But this is impossible!!"
"Not really." Aliana's eyes were fixed on the two dragons in the air above her, but her hand found A'liss'. "Xy almost flew once before, we got her all signed up and everything, but she just decided not to."
"But she's chewed firestone! And Heraemth's only a weyrling!" A'liss still refused to believe what was happening. "There won't be any eggs."
Aliana smiled. "And you'll notice neither dragon blooded anything and no other dragons are coming to chase her."
"So she's doing this just for fun?"
"Why not?"
A'liss watched the dragons in the air for a moment, feeling Heraemth's rising emotions inside of him. He pulled Aliana close and kissed her. "So much for a rest day."
Heraemth keeps growing...
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A'liss impressed Heraemth at Tarizal Weyr.
A'liss impressed Angou at Tarizal Weyr.
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