01.Oct.19, 11:31 PM
Vaera let Madiquel lead her by the hand further into the weyr, smiling at everything Madiquel told her. She laughed and made encouraging noises in all the appropriate places, glancing back and forth between Madi and Zezeth all along the walk and while they talked in their room. Zezeth was so pretty, and Vaera was just so fascinated by dragons, but she was talking to Madiquel and she didn’t want her friend to feel ignored while she was talking because Vaera absolutely cared very much and didn’t want to give Madi any impression otherwise.
“They probably just want to leave a buffer after they’re ready to be extra sure they’re ready, just in case,” Vaera said reassuringly in response to the talk of lessons, “You’ll all be getting plenty of lessons soon enough.” Even if the dragons took a little longer at certain points, now that they were doing better there had to be lots the human Weyrlings could learn while they were waiting for their dragons’ bodies to catch up.
Then Madiquel asked about coming back to the Hall and she looked so worried, and Vaera immediately reached out to take her friend’s hands. “Of course you’ll be able to come back!” Vaera exclaimed. “Da likes you, I can tell, you’re a good student. And it’s not like there isn’t a precedent, look at Eb’zer and L’gan,” she added, inclining her head towards the door and the rest of the Weyr. Vaera couldn’t say for sure, since she hadn’t been there, but she was pretty sure her father had insisted on Impressed Healers getting the chance to return to the Hall. He’d been so upset when Eb’zer Impressed the turn before. There was no way he’d ban Madiquel from returning once Zezeth was old enough, and Vaera did her best to reassure her friend of this fact.
“Think of it as like, an extended study, like when Senior Apprentices or the younger Journeymen are tapped to work with a specific Master” she said excitedly. “We don’t have a whole lot on dragons, so your special project is observing how dragons grow up. And then when you come back to the Hall, you can use that knowledge to contribute to recreating our knowledge of dragonhealing. Here, I’m going to assign you extra homework for while you’re waiting on Weyrling lessons,” Vaera grinned cheekily. “Write me detailed letters about all you’re learning about dragon anatomy and physiology from observing Zezeth and her brothers! That way you’ll always have something to do, and I can take your observations and organize them so we can add them to the Hall’s records on dragons. It’ll be our little project.” She smiled at Madi, hoping the other girl liked the idea. Not everyone was as eager about homework as Vaera could be, she knew, but Madiquel was always so interested in learning, and writing letters to a friend was much easier than a proper essay. Vaera would be the one to translate it into a more studious format. It would be a fun and worthwhile exercise, and it was an excuse to ask for more letters and visits.
“They probably just want to leave a buffer after they’re ready to be extra sure they’re ready, just in case,” Vaera said reassuringly in response to the talk of lessons, “You’ll all be getting plenty of lessons soon enough.” Even if the dragons took a little longer at certain points, now that they were doing better there had to be lots the human Weyrlings could learn while they were waiting for their dragons’ bodies to catch up.
Then Madiquel asked about coming back to the Hall and she looked so worried, and Vaera immediately reached out to take her friend’s hands. “Of course you’ll be able to come back!” Vaera exclaimed. “Da likes you, I can tell, you’re a good student. And it’s not like there isn’t a precedent, look at Eb’zer and L’gan,” she added, inclining her head towards the door and the rest of the Weyr. Vaera couldn’t say for sure, since she hadn’t been there, but she was pretty sure her father had insisted on Impressed Healers getting the chance to return to the Hall. He’d been so upset when Eb’zer Impressed the turn before. There was no way he’d ban Madiquel from returning once Zezeth was old enough, and Vaera did her best to reassure her friend of this fact.
“Think of it as like, an extended study, like when Senior Apprentices or the younger Journeymen are tapped to work with a specific Master” she said excitedly. “We don’t have a whole lot on dragons, so your special project is observing how dragons grow up. And then when you come back to the Hall, you can use that knowledge to contribute to recreating our knowledge of dragonhealing. Here, I’m going to assign you extra homework for while you’re waiting on Weyrling lessons,” Vaera grinned cheekily. “Write me detailed letters about all you’re learning about dragon anatomy and physiology from observing Zezeth and her brothers! That way you’ll always have something to do, and I can take your observations and organize them so we can add them to the Hall’s records on dragons. It’ll be our little project.” She smiled at Madi, hoping the other girl liked the idea. Not everyone was as eager about homework as Vaera could be, she knew, but Madiquel was always so interested in learning, and writing letters to a friend was much easier than a proper essay. Vaera would be the one to translate it into a more studious format. It would be a fun and worthwhile exercise, and it was an excuse to ask for more letters and visits.