T'min's Journal
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Mother gave me this journal to keep when I was searched. She wants to know all about it, and the weyr, and everything. She says that she had a journal when she was a child, and likes to look back at it. I guess I'll write it, and when I am done, send it to mother, so that she may know of it. I will write in this as often as something important happens. Doesn't it seem like everything important happens to those high in status? Oh well. Maybe something will happen worth writing about.
Nasha is doing well in the Candidate quarters they have given us. The weyr we stay in used to be used, but the dragon and rider who lived here got transfered. They gave it to me, and I have fixed it up a bit, though it is still a bit messy. I like to wander around the Weyr, and imagine myself as a rider. I visit the weyrling barracks, and watch the young dragons practice flying and working with firestone. I also sneak into the kitchen and get a few bubblys while they're still hot. Yummmm.... Not much else has happened. Oh well.
~Tilimin
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Oh, I am so happy! I have Impressed! Veonith is all I could ever ask for, and I am so happy I was searched. It is amazing, he is a white! And when he hatched, he had a twin. He is smaller than hatchlings usually are, but that just means I get to care for him more. Nasha isn't jealous at all, which is surprising. Veonith and Nasha get along pretty well, considering. Soon Veonith and I will be flying, but not for a little while I guess. Oh well. After Impressing Veonith, all I want to do is sit and think, and remember. It was such a great moment, when his egg hatched, and he imerged. His eyes dazzled when they met mine, and I do not think either of us will forget that moment.
I am smiling right now, thinking of how we like to do the same things. Mostly we like to do nothing. Have you ever done that? Just sit and think of nothing, watching the sunset, or rise, or whatever. We like to stay up and watch the stars glimmer. I think they remind me of Veonith's eyes when he is happy. He usually is!
~T'min!!!
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Veonith is now a weyrling! He is still smaller all of the other dragons, and will always be, but that doesn't matter. He is the size of a pony, and is not ready to fly yet, his wings arn't developed fully. We like to imagine what it will be like when he is grown, flying everywhere. We are kind of nervous about going between, but we don't have to worry about that yet. I have heard descriptions of it, cold and dark, but Veonith says he will keep me safe! He is so brave... I am smiling now, thinking of him, he likes to rough-house, but is really so sweet.... I am so happy I Impressed.
~T'min
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Veonith the teenager, flying and everything! I'm smiling. Veonith is such a wonderful companion. Big, but wonderful! I don't know how the queen riders do it. Gold's are so much bigger than Veonith and his twin, and I have my hands full with him! Veonith is very helpful though. We're learning to go between. We are kind of scared, but are ready! We fly all the time, and enjoy getting closer to the stars... I look at the constillations with him, and we are finding new things almost every night we look. It is so amazing up there. But so empty. There is everything up there, but nobody knows where to look. I don't know. Maybe someday I will. For now I just want to be with Veonith and Nasha.
~T'min
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The clouds are beautiful! Now that Veonith is an adult, we go flying everyday, or try to. Nasha sometimes joins us, but I think she is busy, she has her eyes on some of the Weyr's firelizards. Veonith is huge, so much of a difference from when he was a tiny hatchling, when we Impressed... I know that I would not change life with him for anything. He is my friend, my light, and my ready companion. We argue, and agree, and we are as I think riders and their dragons have been since the first egg cracked.
Time has flown by so quickly that it is like it took wing on a dragon. I am now 17 turns, and Veonith an adult. We have shared so much together.
~T'min