Widow's Peak Weyr
Widow's Peak
History
     The rich Southern Continent called to the men and women who felt they had no hope of advancing in the Holds to which they were beholding.  Some felt  the Holders were unjust or were under Holders that held a cruel streak.  These independent people sought to make it on their own.  They developed small cots with no Hold proper lording it over them.  The cots were scattered, isolated.  Victory Weyr had their hands full covering the Holds protected by Victory.  These Holds were also spread over the rich land.  So it was they welcomed Widow's Peak as a site where a small Weyr of riders could fan out and protect the distant independent cotters.

    As turns go Widow’s Peak Weyr is young on the world of Pern.  Started when Thread still fell in the present Pass, and the Weyrs were expanding seeking to cover all of Pern knowing the task was impossible with the number of dragons they now had, the Weyr’s sought out any likely site for the newest Weyr.  An odd little mountain offered some of the desired needs of a Weyr.  There were caves, deep caves exposed by what appeared to have been the middle of the mountain breaking away forming the look of a widow’s peak.  Thus was the new Weyr named Widow’s Peak.
   
    Fammili with queen Shipilth ruled Widow’s Peak with and iron hand.  Weyrleader D’urk and his bronze Vilmith loved Fammili deeply.  As the pairs aged it began to look as if the hopes of a gold egg were to be in vain.  Fammili would not allow a queen from another Weyr to join them at Widow’s Peak.  She was a jealous woman and hard on her people.  It was in the couples latter years when queens were reaching the point of never rising again that the old queen rose one final time.  To everyone’s amazement Shipilth laid a single egg.  This time she had produce a gold and only a gold egg.  The lone egg sat upon the sand which had been hauled in sack by sack so many turns ago for the hatches of a young Shipilth’s eggs. 
    Search dragons from every Weyr brought likely candidates to stand for that golden treasure.  On the day the gold egg rocked, and the dragons hummed the pending hatching, the sands were crowded with young hopefully girls.  But the young gold within that egg had a mind of her own.  The egg cracked open, Patith looked around, her wobbly wet head weaving back and forth as she searched the crowded sands.  None met the young queens needs.  Suddenly with a squawk Patith waddled towards a table laden with fresh cut meat intended for the new weyrling to feed her queen.  A roar went up from the crowded stands.  Screams of “Catch her.  Someone grab some meat and feed her!” came from the frantic riders who knew a fear as no other, that a dragon was about to eat without bonding to a human. 
    Patith had one goal and it was not the laden bowl of fresh meat.  Behind the table was a 16 turns girl cleaning up the leavings from having cut up the food to be fed the new queen.  She was a rather fat girl with a limp that became heavy when she was tired or stressed.  No dragon had smelled her and thought her likely as a lifemate for the new queen, but to Patith, Roseen was HERS!

    A sevenday after Roseen and Patith graduated to fullrider Fammili fell ill and died.  Her lifemate joined her as did D’urk upon Vilimith, who had loved this hard woman and would not be parted from her even in death.
    So it was that a very young Roseen was left to govern  Widow’s Peak Weyr. With all the riders older then she was Roseen had a hard road ahead of her.  What sort of Weyrwoman would she be?  How could the Weyr survive now that Fall had ended and the queen they had always know was dead?  And just WHO would fly the young queen Patith to become Weyrleader? 
    Most of the Weyr’s Bronzeriders had been unwilling to fly the elderly Shiplith.  They had long since transfered to more active productive Weyrs.  Now, now that the question of who would fly Patith rose new bronzeriders sought to transfer to Widow’s peak seeking a chance at becoming a Weyrleader, thinking perhaps that the young Weyrwoman would be pliable in their hands. 

 
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