Impressed at Wu Weyr

Tsukiya and Linyith's Weyr

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"It's very dark in here," you comment, while walking toward the dim light of the young woman's weyr. "I know," she says. "I like it that way. It's nice to see the stars at night. I like working by moonlight..." Her eyes are like moons, blue-green and shining against her deep night-black hair. She is very pretty, you think. Apparently, she thinks so too, otherwise she wouldn't be preening all the time. Her hair is glossy, and she combs it out once more. "Well, I've brought you to my weyr. I suppose I ought to light a couple glows, so you can see what I do with myself when I am not working in the mine. My craft is not all dirty and dusty and filled with danger, you know... Though the mine itself can be fairly dangerous." She tosses her hair over her shoulder, and the glows in their paired baskets begin to light the room. It is framed on all sides by a low shelf, which has all sorts of stones, metal pieces, and jewlery laying out on it, as if ready to be finished. "I usually like to find the best stones, not even the precious ones like diamonds and stuff, they're too hard and brittle to work with. I like just plain pretty stones. And so do people who can't afford the real gems. When I start a piece I think about who might buy it. Or what I might get in trade for it. A nice stone like this," she holds up a dark, reddish brown one which has been polished to a glimmer, "might be best put into a dark, almost iron-colored metal piece, with some scroll work and such, and made into a belt buckle. This one here," she holds up a green jade-colored stone, "and several smaller ones would make a really nice necklace with silver or white-gold metal. But neither of those are really expensive pieces, and they're very expressive." "So are you," you comment. "Have you any harper training?" "Well, my foster brothers have some, and we all share around here. Mama Tani teaches us and we have a number of harpers who come by regularly. It's a good education, really, better than many miners would ever get." She puts the pieces back, and stares into one large black "worry stone" shaped rock. "When I was searched, I wasn't sure I wanted to leave this all. But the rider from Wu Weyr told me I could probably still do this work in my spare time. Once a dragon is grown that is." She smiles with a bit of worry. "But while they're growing up I hear they are quite difficult work." She sighs, and smiles. "I'm used to difficult work. I'm looking forward to it." "You would impress at Wu Weyr?" "Well, my foster sister Tenjaray is a candidate there too, and I know several of the others around the Protectorate are talking about it. It looks like a good new weyr. Our sister Tanis will be bringing both of us there soon." "Tanis, on the gold?" "That would be her," Tsukiya rolls her eyes. "She's very proud of her dragon, and with good reason. I think she's going to rise soon, but I don't know where her eggs will clutch. Perhaps right here. We've always got a cavern around in the hills..." She snickers and you don't ask why.

The days at Wu Weyr were exciting and filled with activity. Learning how to chop meat for the hatchlings, how to apply oils and bathe the little creaures, and what to expect when they began to grow at the alarming rate they always did, were things that Tsukiya already knew about. Enough of her family had visited the Cothold with information like this, but they always said it was worth it. Tsukiya hoped so. Her crafts made her quite popular, and since they actually got to Wu a lot earlier than expected, she had a little time to finish some pieces and start on others before the Hatching. Then, the fateful day arrived! The hatchlings weren't quite ready to escape their hard shells just yet, but every adult dragon in the weyr sent up a loud hum to encourage them. Ahh, at last, a brown opened up his eyes to the world, and fell face first into the sand. A bronze and green hatched next, and then two blues. Another bunch of eggs hatched all at once, and Tsukiya found herself watching a spat between two greens! She even seemed to be the focus of this argument, but Tsukiya had other plans. "Now, Linyith, you stop fighting over me. I don't know your name, little dear," she told the other green, while Linyith scampered to her side, "so you need to find your own lifemate." Tsukiya looked into the happy whirling eyes of Linyith, "I've found mine!

Days passed into sevens, and months, and into more than a turn and a half. Linyith had grown into a beautiful glowing green sky-dancing dragoness, full of life! I will be free of that harness when I rise, won't I? "When you -- what?" Tsu blinked audibly. "When... You're feeling all right, aren't you, Liny?" I feel wonderful! And you think I'm beautiful! Look at how I glow. I will be the best mate for -- "Hold on! Hold on! Remember that I've got a say in this too! Do you like... Him?" Tsukiya pointed out one of the thinner young blue riders, and Linyith shook her head in a very human move. "How about him?" She looked to a heavily muscled darkskinned man, and his hardy brown. Linyith pondered a moment. You know, there is more to this than I thought! Perhaps I'll think about it more, before scaring you again!

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