You see the door that you were directed to. It's marked 'Tamika' in a sort of sideways scrawl. You tilt your head looking at it and notice that there is no light sneaking out between the cracks in the door. You wonder whether you should bother knocking, Tamika's either out or asleep. But your orders were clear. Get Tamika down to the lower caverns immeadiatly. You sigh, really wishing that Headwoman Magika had sent someone else. You rap slightly on the door and hear the low growl you feared.
"What?" A femine voice calls out, not sleepy but clear. She must have been awake after all. What could she have been doing in the dark?
"Umm....," You call out. "It's me, Headwoman Magika sent me up here to get you."
"Come in." Is the brief response. You open the door and are knocked flat. You scream and Tamika laughs.
"Help!" You scream, the watch weyr pinning you. You can't understand why Tamika's laughing. Then you realize the watch weyr isn't biting you, he's....licking your face. You sputter, and Tamika finally calls the creature off.
"Damian, get off our guest." The blue watch weyr prances over to Tamika, obidiently. You gulp. Tamika looks up. "Don't worry, he's harmless. I've trained him to not hurt a fly. He's all bark." She smiles, scratching the blue's head. You examine this odd girl. She looks to be about 20 turns with short, brown hair, pulled up out of her face. She's not wearing the plain brown dress like most of the other female candidates, but a pair of brown, leather pants, and a white tunic under a leather vest. She's wearing boots even though it's indoor. You wonder again what she was doing in here in the dark. She examines you as well and you watch her dark brown eyes scan you.
She yawns and Damian flops down on the ground at her feet. "What did you come here for?"
Magika's order's were pummeled right out of your head, you can't remember. "Umm....ah...." You stutter, desperatly trying to think of something, anything to say.
Tamika raises an eyebrow. "Well?"
"I wanted to ask you about your candicy." You blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
"Okay," she replies haltingly, realizing that was not your original intent. "I'm a candidate at Sapphire Weyr, I'm 21 turns old, 5'8", one watch weyr named Damian." Tamika rattles on. "Anything else?"
"How were you searched?"
"How did you get Damian?"
Once Tamika's done answering all your questions, you remember suddenly what you were supposed to tell her. "Weyrwoman Magika wanted you in the lower caverns, something about Tani, the gold watch weyr, having her babies." You say, stopping dead the rest of the conversation.
"Shards! Why didn't you tell me sooner. C'mon Damian." The two get up and run out of the room. You sigh, glad to have finally delivered your message and lean back. You can see on her roof, the stars, each painted in silver, in their proper place. The moon shines in from the window, lighting up the fake stars and you smile. Guess you can see the stars inside a weyr after all Tamika.
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