19.Feb.13, 10:33 AM
B’jin smiled warmly at the positive response he got from both the young men, watching with eager amusement as they both tried again, and the delighted manners in which they responded to their dragonets when success was, once more, the result. “Yes, you’ll find it gets easier as you practice,” B’jin agreed, placing a hand lightly on Seijin’s head for a moment before lifting it and lightly petting Araith’s pretty head, his touch gentle on the young green dragonet. It was, without a doubt, easy to tell B’jin put a little more favour on the young greens within his class than the other colours. While he didn’t specifically go out of his way to treat Seijin or any of the other new greenriders any better than the rest, it was his actions that gave him away – pets to the young dragonets, and a lightness to his voice when instructions were given. The greenriders would find themselves being treated heavily later in life, and he saw no need to alienate them from their own kind.
The fact that he was only encouraging a jealousy amongst many of the new blue and brownriders was not something B’jin was consciously aware of, though he likely wouldn’t have been surprised nor done anything in particular to stop them. After all, a greenriders’ proper place was below that of the blue, brown and bronze fellows and while B’jin wouldn’t treat his young greenlings unfairly, eh wouldn’t scold the others for doing so. They needed to learn their place, preferably before they ended up in a painful situation!
In contrast to the way B’jin could often be seen petting the green dragonets, he rarely pet a blue and never openly touched the brown dragons, almost always keeping what he considered a respectful distance from the creatures, though it was fuelled mostly by his own fears and insecurities, though he was, again, almost entirely unaware of his actions and the odd undertones he was using to educate the class in the dragon hierarchy.
“You should keep practising every day,” B’jin continued, smiling lightly at Larrikith as the pudgy green dragon trotted over and fluttered her wings before sitting down just outside of the two dragonets and their young riders-to-be, tail wrapping around her feet as she watched them. “But not so much that you get headaches, which will be a pretty clear indicator that you’re concentrating too hard.” He grinned, and tossed a wink to Talian. “You’ll probably get a few before you really get the knack of mindspeaking, but once you figure it out, you’ll find it pretty effortless.”
Then your only headaches will come from babbling companions, Larrikith put in cheerfully, chirping with amusement when B’jin shot her a dry look. What? You think very loudly, for someone with such a thick skull.
Snorting, B’jin stuck his tongue out at her.
The fact that he was only encouraging a jealousy amongst many of the new blue and brownriders was not something B’jin was consciously aware of, though he likely wouldn’t have been surprised nor done anything in particular to stop them. After all, a greenriders’ proper place was below that of the blue, brown and bronze fellows and while B’jin wouldn’t treat his young greenlings unfairly, eh wouldn’t scold the others for doing so. They needed to learn their place, preferably before they ended up in a painful situation!
In contrast to the way B’jin could often be seen petting the green dragonets, he rarely pet a blue and never openly touched the brown dragons, almost always keeping what he considered a respectful distance from the creatures, though it was fuelled mostly by his own fears and insecurities, though he was, again, almost entirely unaware of his actions and the odd undertones he was using to educate the class in the dragon hierarchy.
“You should keep practising every day,” B’jin continued, smiling lightly at Larrikith as the pudgy green dragon trotted over and fluttered her wings before sitting down just outside of the two dragonets and their young riders-to-be, tail wrapping around her feet as she watched them. “But not so much that you get headaches, which will be a pretty clear indicator that you’re concentrating too hard.” He grinned, and tossed a wink to Talian. “You’ll probably get a few before you really get the knack of mindspeaking, but once you figure it out, you’ll find it pretty effortless.”
Snorting, B’jin stuck his tongue out at her.