Yes, Well, we're here. Let's land, and look at what we're dealing with here. the second rider gestured to the first, signalling him to land. The two dragons spiralled down, their hides glinting sapphire bright in the suns.
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"They're here!" Ravenna said suddenly, dropping her bowl of stew and standing up hurriedly. "What? Where?" asked Shianlon and Niko, looking around wildly. "There!" Ravenna replied, her hand shooting out to point at two large shapes nearing the ground. "C'mon!" She began running down the small hill they had camped on, and, as she neared the bottom, spread her wings and took to the skies, Vrai gliding beside her. She landed a few dragon lengths away from the newly landed Search-dragons and-riders, gazing up in wonder at the large blues. Now that she was close to them, the voices she had heard were curiously absent, as if an 'off' switch had been thrown in her mind.
Shinalon and Niko cam running up a short while later, Kiri and Kinya cicling overhead with Vrai.
"Hmm..." said the older human, slapping his gloves against his palm. "Are these the ones, Okserth?"
Yes, the blue replied, his voice resounding in the awed Lithrian's minds. They are, D'run.
"Well, that seems to be that, then." D'run commented to his fellow Searchrider, R'lan.
"Pardon me," Shinalon interrupted, looking confused. "But are you Skydancers?"
The dragonriders looked blank. "Skydancers?" R'lan asked, frowning slightly. "Can't say I've heard of them."
"Oh..." Niko looked at Ravenna, who suprisingly didn't look disappointed. Indeed, she looked elated. "'Venna?" he said quietly, nudging her slightly.
"Welcome to Lithros, honoured Skydancers," she said, bowing to the dragons and their riders. "May I ask the nature of this visit?"
"We're on a Search," D'run replied. "and our dragons-Okserth and Ancith-say that you three are the ones we're looking for. You see, we're Searchriders at Ryslen Weyr, and there are Clutches on the Sands. We'd be honoured if you'd come and be Candidates for one of them."
"What does that mean?" Niko asked suspicously.
"It means," Rlan said."That you'd get the chance of Bonding-we call it 'Impressing' a dragon."
"Really?" Ravenna asked, gasping slightly.
"Really."
"Let's go, then." she said to Niko and Shinalon. They looked dubious; why go with people they had only just met, to a place they had never been?
"Please?" Ravenna asked, pleading in her eyes.
"Alright, then." Shinalon said, sighing. "How long do we have to get things taken care of?"
"Well, we're going to be leaving around noon. Is that long enough?" D'run asked.
"Should be." Niko replied. "That'll give us enough time to tell the Elders where we're going, if they believe us..."
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