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20.Mar.21, 07:31 PM
02.21.742
Jenath is growing so quickly! I’m still having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that I am now a dragonrider…It’s interesting, the bond…the presence in my mind. Strange and unsettling, but also comforting. I know so much awaits us both as we grow and learn together.
I wonder…I wonder if I’ll ever go back to my old station…If I’ll ever see my parents again. I could…I could easily run there and back within a day. Of course, I wouldn’t leave dear Jenath right now, now while she still needs so much tending. Perhaps…perhaps in a few months, when she’s slowed her growing. Perhaps, when Jenath is big enough, we will simply fly down there. I’d very much like to show her off…but they won’t appreciate her. They’ll only see her as the creature that took away a potential breeding Runner. That’s all they saw me as, after all. Hm. Perhaps Meri will be glad to see me. Ha, perhaps I’ll whisk her off to the Weyr, as well! No, I won’t do that. She’s happy on the traces and in the station. I think she’d taken a liking to that boy from 287, too.
Well, no matter. Not yet. I’ve got plenty of time to decide if I’ll ever stop by and visit. For now, bathe, oil, and feed. Repeat. Sleep when and where I can.
15.03.742
It’s already been a month, and I can hardly believe it’s gone by so quickly! The hatchlings are all beginning to settle at night now, which my tired self cannot begin to express enough appreciation for. Jenath has taken well to settling into her wallow after her last meal for the day, and it gives me a small measure of time to myself. I managed to get hold of a book on some basics of Healing, just one from the small library in the lower caverns, and I’ve been trying to read it in those few moments I get to myself after Jenath falls asleep. I figure I might as well try and get a jump on those studies so I have some knowledge to build on later.
I saw D’nei today, too! He really is a pleasant sort. I hope all is well with his new blue companion…I hope he’s able to talk to L’gan soon…
17.03.742
Well, that was not what I’d expected. I wasn’t expecting praise, by any means, but certainly didn’t expect scolding.
I’ll have to try and chat with the Weyrwoman, or maybe the junior weyrwoman?— whoever might know for sure at some point…the minutiae of the deal that was made regarding my being able to Stand, and Impress, always were a bit fuzzy. D’hys hadn’t exactly said…damn, his shoes! I need to get those finished… But really… I’d been told I'd be allowed on the sands if I promised to go through Healer Hall training after Impressing. Which I’d agreed to. And when I try to get a jump on studies during Jenath’s naps, I get scolded for it?
The weyrlingmaster told me that I wasn’t to be a healer, that it wasn’t necessary, and not to neglect my dragon (neglect Jenath? No! I could never!) and my studies by wasting time on the Healer books. Apparently, the stipulation of learning the Craft was only if I had Impressed gold, which either I hadn’t caught or just hadn’t been explicitly specified. Golds don’t chew firestone, and don’t fight Thread, and so it is their riders that are required to learn Healing, so ‘they won’t be useless’ during Threadfall. Jenath being green, the two of us will be airborne, flaming the stuff from the skies, and rather than caring for the injured myself, I might end up being cared for by one of those gold riders instead.
I suppose it does make sense, now that I think about it.
But it is still annoying being so scolded for such a silly thing as wanting to study, particularly when I thought it was going to be required of me, anyway.
Well.
I still don’t think it’s entirely fair that, after such a stipulation and deal was made that now I get to just…walk away. Or rather, fly away… And Zahrah is plenty good company, perhaps, as she’ll be required to learn the craft, I might be able to work with her and still study for the Craft after graduation. I did promise, after all, and I don’t like backing out of a promise, even if it’s alright to do so.
For now, though…sleep. I plan to be running in the morning! It may be just around the bowl for now, but all the same…I have time to run again! And we’re encouraged to do so, too, so it’s not something I should get into trouble over, unlike studying…hm. Well, off to sleep then.
Jenath is growing so quickly! I’m still having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that I am now a dragonrider…It’s interesting, the bond…the presence in my mind. Strange and unsettling, but also comforting. I know so much awaits us both as we grow and learn together.
I wonder…I wonder if I’ll ever go back to my old station…If I’ll ever see my parents again. I could…I could easily run there and back within a day. Of course, I wouldn’t leave dear Jenath right now, now while she still needs so much tending. Perhaps…perhaps in a few months, when she’s slowed her growing. Perhaps, when Jenath is big enough, we will simply fly down there. I’d very much like to show her off…but they won’t appreciate her. They’ll only see her as the creature that took away a potential breeding Runner. That’s all they saw me as, after all. Hm. Perhaps Meri will be glad to see me. Ha, perhaps I’ll whisk her off to the Weyr, as well! No, I won’t do that. She’s happy on the traces and in the station. I think she’d taken a liking to that boy from 287, too.
Well, no matter. Not yet. I’ve got plenty of time to decide if I’ll ever stop by and visit. For now, bathe, oil, and feed. Repeat. Sleep when and where I can.
15.03.742
It’s already been a month, and I can hardly believe it’s gone by so quickly! The hatchlings are all beginning to settle at night now, which my tired self cannot begin to express enough appreciation for. Jenath has taken well to settling into her wallow after her last meal for the day, and it gives me a small measure of time to myself. I managed to get hold of a book on some basics of Healing, just one from the small library in the lower caverns, and I’ve been trying to read it in those few moments I get to myself after Jenath falls asleep. I figure I might as well try and get a jump on those studies so I have some knowledge to build on later.
I saw D’nei today, too! He really is a pleasant sort. I hope all is well with his new blue companion…I hope he’s able to talk to L’gan soon…
17.03.742
Well, that was not what I’d expected. I wasn’t expecting praise, by any means, but certainly didn’t expect scolding.
I’ll have to try and chat with the Weyrwoman, or maybe the junior weyrwoman?— whoever might know for sure at some point…the minutiae of the deal that was made regarding my being able to Stand, and Impress, always were a bit fuzzy. D’hys hadn’t exactly said…damn, his shoes! I need to get those finished… But really… I’d been told I'd be allowed on the sands if I promised to go through Healer Hall training after Impressing. Which I’d agreed to. And when I try to get a jump on studies during Jenath’s naps, I get scolded for it?
The weyrlingmaster told me that I wasn’t to be a healer, that it wasn’t necessary, and not to neglect my dragon (neglect Jenath? No! I could never!) and my studies by wasting time on the Healer books. Apparently, the stipulation of learning the Craft was only if I had Impressed gold, which either I hadn’t caught or just hadn’t been explicitly specified. Golds don’t chew firestone, and don’t fight Thread, and so it is their riders that are required to learn Healing, so ‘they won’t be useless’ during Threadfall. Jenath being green, the two of us will be airborne, flaming the stuff from the skies, and rather than caring for the injured myself, I might end up being cared for by one of those gold riders instead.
I suppose it does make sense, now that I think about it.
But it is still annoying being so scolded for such a silly thing as wanting to study, particularly when I thought it was going to be required of me, anyway.
Well.
I still don’t think it’s entirely fair that, after such a stipulation and deal was made that now I get to just…walk away. Or rather, fly away… And Zahrah is plenty good company, perhaps, as she’ll be required to learn the craft, I might be able to work with her and still study for the Craft after graduation. I did promise, after all, and I don’t like backing out of a promise, even if it’s alright to do so.
For now, though…sleep. I plan to be running in the morning! It may be just around the bowl for now, but all the same…I have time to run again! And we’re encouraged to do so, too, so it’s not something I should get into trouble over, unlike studying…hm. Well, off to sleep then.
