The next weyr you are in is huge.  It could hold
Ramoth, it's so big.  But dark.  Not like night,
though.  A fire from another room sends shadows
flickering, like ghosts of things past.  A few rugs
are spotted round the floor, woven in warm
colours.  Across from you is a dragon couch.
A young woman sits on it with a younger girl.
  Closer to you is the opening to a ledge, that
sits right where the most sun gets to it.  It looks
that it will be greatly warmed in the sun, nice
for some dragon.  If you look past the ledge,
past the weyrbowl you can see the sea. Its
waves are high and don't look very friendly. 
But further out you see groups of dolphins. 
"Hello?"  you hear a voice behind you and
jump, turning quickly around. 

The young woman is standing there. 
"My name is Briala,"
she says, "and this girl is my sister Hehzi." 
She nods to the girl beside her.  Briala looks
to be about 19/20, and Hehzi looks to be about 12.
"I'm a candidate, at Sonria Weyr and my
sister's a candidate too, but at elsewhere.
Don't know why she'd want to be a candidate.
I don't.  But my brother Paron insisted.  He's 21,
but my parents are both dead, or lost.  We don't
know where they are.  I'm a journeywoman Dolphineer.
My sister's knows the dolphins language but she
wanted to do something else," She says.  You nod,
and ask why Hehzi Dooen's explain herself. 

Briala blushes, "When she was six she was out with my
brother on the farm, they were looking at our runner-
beast.  She was standing beside one of the entrances
to a cave.  A dragonrider came round, and Paron went
to say he could feed his dragon there, where the wherries
were, but one of the runner-beasts got over-excited and
knocked Hehzi into the cave.  A cave which had been
inhabited by a tunnel-snake.  It attacked before either
of us could react."  You turn and notice Hehzi has a
scar along her neck, and another on her arm.  If
it weren't for that she'd be quite pretty.  Her hair
and Briala's is auburn and Hehzi has hazel eyes,
whilst Briala's are brown.  You mutter apologies.

Briala accepts your apologies.  But she also
says she can't be staying longer.  You nod,
and watch as her sister and her leave.  You
follow them out, not wanting to stay in the
huge weyr any longer. 

*Sonria Weyr
*Hehzi's weyr
*Paron's weyr