07.Feb.21, 04:02 PM
“I hadn’t meant to bring it up quite this early; I do usually like to give things like this more thought. But, well, you’re good with Vondlyn. And if you’re a grumpy bastard--” she grinned over at him, silently daring him to contradict her, “you’ve still seemed to grow quite up a bit from the panicked young rider I met initially.”
When he asked her if she was hoping to run her own Weyr some day, Helyna replied, “it beats being a junior to some of the flitter-heads around a few of these Weyrs. Besides, I’ve always been ambitious--I’d have found a way to make Journeyman if I hadn’t been Searched. Or at least to talk my way into learning some of the more secretive techniques.” The cavalier self-assurance was perhaps a bit of an act, but it was true that she was one of the few female apprentices in the weavercraft, and that much of her initial education had been won through sheer force of personality.
When he asked her if she was hoping to run her own Weyr some day, Helyna replied, “it beats being a junior to some of the flitter-heads around a few of these Weyrs. Besides, I’ve always been ambitious--I’d have found a way to make Journeyman if I hadn’t been Searched. Or at least to talk my way into learning some of the more secretive techniques.” The cavalier self-assurance was perhaps a bit of an act, but it was true that she was one of the few female apprentices in the weavercraft, and that much of her initial education had been won through sheer force of personality.