Zh'dar, Journeyman Beast Crafter (runnerbeasts) Rider of Brown Aiuroboth, impressed  at Blue Star Weyr

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Aiuroboth eyed the runnerbeast with a bit of nervous anticipation. But the moment he was going to spring out of the weyrledge onto the field, Zh'dar gasped loudly and shouted at him, "don't you dare go after them!" He sprinted to the dragon's side, and looked at the hungry orange-red eyes. "If you want something, why don't you just ask?" I want to hunt, Zh'dar. It is time for me to hunt for myself. "You can barely fly, Airuo, don't you think you could wait until you're a little better at that first?" Zh'dar began scratching at the hide of his dragon, but the young weyrling wouldn't have it. I wish to hunt. And fly. It would be good for me to learn both. You do not have to ride me for me to be able to fly. Zh'dar sighed. The dragon was right. He could lift his own weight much more easily than he could both of them. "All right, but not the runners! Remember, they're why I came here in the first place! And they'll be coming back with us when we head away. Back to the Hold they'll go. Right?" ... All right, Zh'dar. But only because you are being so sensible about this...

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"We would have lost him! Thank you!" Called out a sailor from his toppled boat. The seas around Blue Star weyr were not calm this day, and with a storm coming after the one they were in as well. The brown dragon below Zh'dar trumpeted and managed to lift himself out of the water with his huge wings. Though choppy, his flight was more sure than the boat's progress below. "It was good that you spotted that boy," Zh'dar said, knowing that his dragon could hear him. "I would never forgive myself if we lost someone." Not while I'm flying! Aiuroboth thought back, bravely. He towed the boat closer to shore, where others like it were already tied in. Several dolphin noses poked out of the dark chilled water, and helped with the seamen on the ship. The ship-fish like me, Aiuroboth smugly thought. They think that I am fast in the water. Like them! "You are, Aiuro, you are!"