Taralin's Journal 2856.01.07 Dear Diary, Today had to be the worst day of my life.  Since it was a gather day, I managed to barter with one of the senior weyrlings that comes and gets supplies from our crafthall to take me to the gather.  You wouldn't believe how rude he was!  He was a brownrider, and had a golden firelizard perched on one shoulder, and wouldn't stop bragging about either of them!  However, I'd just finished with a small weaving of a brown dragon, luckily for me, and it was stamped for sale.  In the end, I swapped it to him for two of his queen's eggs, which in turn I sold for around twice as much as I could of the weaving.  The weyrling had no common sense whatsoever! However, the horrible thing that happened was when he dropped me off, I fell off of the brown flat on my face, and bloodied up my nose.  Now that part wasn't too terrible, but it was who was standing there that killed me...  It was Barnuil.  He didn't laugh, but I think that as soon as I left he broke up into laughter.  Why, oh why does this always happen to me?  I think that one of these days I'm going to cut my hair and try to pass as a guy, that way no one will know who I am.  What do you think?  Baernil, Barnuil's young brother, was pretty nice about the whole thing, though. 2856.02.01 Dear Diary, You know how yesterday was horrible?  Well, today was great!  Barnuil actually came up to me and asked if my nose was okay, and helped me with getting my breakfast, because he said that he was afraid I might hurt myself, and I don't think that he meant that sarcastically.  Isn't it wonderful?  Well, I have to write more later, because my teacher, the journeywoman Candis, is getting a bit angry at me for not buckling down to buisiness. 2856.02.09 Dear Diary, Everything was going wonderful until Barnuil's green firelizard went on a mating flight.  As you know, I happen to have no firelizards to call my own, and Candis's brown flew it.  I am so angry, because Candis gets this dreamy look on her face whenever Barnuil comes around, and they do everything together.  It is making me sick, and terribly sad, too.  I don't know how that happened, but now I can't even get Barnuil to talk to me, except for when he's asking where Candis is.  It's rather depressing, actually.  However, I've heard rumors that Searchdragons are coming, so I guess that if one of them, or I, gets Searched, then I won't have to spend the rest of my life at the weavercrafthall, staring at their dreamy faces. 2856.02.10 Dear Diary, I think that my life goes in strange ups and strange downs, because you wouldn't believe what else happened today!  Barnuil caught Candis with a journeyman smith that was posted here.  The journeyman is rather cute, I can't blame her.  He's got these deep emerald-green eyes that look as though they could pierce right through you, and this jet black hair...  Ah, well, enough of that and back to Barnuil.  He's started being nice to me again, and offered me one of his green's eggs whenever they hatch, which I thought was very, very nice of him.  I was afraid to say yes, for fear that if I did get one it would be a green and be caught by someone else's firelizard, but afraid to say no, because I didn't want to hurt his feelings.  In the end, though, I accepted.  Now I just have to wait for the green to lay her eggs. 2856.02.20 Dear Diary, I haven't had much time to write lately, for Candis has been extremely angry and making me work all of the time.  However, it did get me a few extra marks from stamped sales.  Too bad, though, it meant that I didn't have much time to speak with Barnuil.  But what happened today was wonderful.  You see, I'm not writing this entry from the crafthall, but from a Candidate's bunk!  Isn't it amazing?  Anya and the green Sveikith Searched me yesterday, along with Baernil, Barnuil's younger brother.  They wanted to take Candis, too, but I think that they're going back for her for the next clutch, 'cause the masterweaver wouldn't let her go yet.  Anyway, I also got to go and look for firelizard, eggs, and found two!  Both are blues, though.  I've decided to name one blue Caalyin, after my foster-mother.  The other blue is Candis, and we all know where that one came from! 2856.02.21 Dear Diary, One of myy blue flit went between. A bronze from someone else attacked him, playfully, but he got hurt really badly and went.  I don't know what I'm going to do, I want to die. 2856.02.23 Dear Diary, Candis (the person) is back up with Barnuil.  Maybe that's why the blue flit went between, he was cursed.  I dunno, I just wish that I'd never met Barnuil.  Baernil and I are getting along pretty well, though.  He's nice enough, and is closer to my age than Barnuil.  My little sister sent me a letter begging for a flit egg.  I refused.  I still want to die, though, Candis the flit went between. Next Page Back to Taralin's index