First day of Leading

[Ria]

Ria woke very slowly, but kept her eyes closed. She was remembering the flight and all that happened afterwords. It had been a miraculous flight and she was extremely pleased with her dragon's choice. When she finally opened her eyes she saw that it was still very very dark inside the weyr. Henareth, What time is it? A contented mental sigh met her mental "ears" and Ria smiled, though it hurt to do so with her lips swollen and sore, and repeated her question. Another sigh and Henareth answered. The night is three quarters gone and I was sleeping. It was not rebuke but rather just an interjection. Three in the morning, Ria mused her herself, she was never up this early, but she had stayed in bed most of the day before.

Slowly she slid out of the bed, trying not to wake her weyrmate. She liked referring to S'nar as that, her weyrmate. Quietly she scooped up a bathing sheet and went into the bathing room where she could soak off the soreness in her muscles. Before she relaxed though, she scrubbed with the sweet sand and once rinsed, she leaned back against the edge and relaxed, letting the heat of the water do what it could.

[amber]

The day before and the night had been wonderful and longish to S'nar. He had begun to stir about the same time as Ria, but instead of moving he tapped into her dragon's mind who's head and neck were wrapped around the queen and his tail was as well. Cinenth, what time is it? he found himself asking his dragon. Instead of answering the massive bronze opened his eyes, sent the image, crooned softly, and then drifted back off to sleep.

S'nar got the image and figure out that it was about 3 a.m., not too early for him, he was about to move when he felt Ria get up and out of the bed. He was not going to move until she got up and left. When she got up he figured out that this was more then a one night stand it was almost a permanent thing. And yet it didn't bother him at all. He was okay with it, Ria was pretty and he liked her. Yes weyrmate was a good world. He moved slightly and felt almost every muscle in his body as he did so. He climbed out of bed and walked into the bathing chamber thinking that she had gone to the kitchen cavern, but he saw her inthere and almost left, but she hadn't seen him yet so he walked in with a smile on his face and gently touched her on the back.

"My, my, my. You're up early. I thought I was the one that woke early." He said in a whisper, hoping to not startle her...

[Ria]

Henareth roused up as Cinenth spoke to his rider. She crooned softly as Cinenth crooned and tightened her tail as it twined around his. She huddled closer to him and sighed before she settled back into a lazy sleep. What a wonderful flight, the best of all her other flights.

The change of the ripples that lapped around her body gave Ria her first hint that she wasn't alone. Then there was the musky scent that seemed to cling to all the dragonriders. As S'nar's hands touched her back she let out a little purr of happiness and leaned into his gentle hands. "Isn't it understandable to finally get up after that long in bed? Even if it was such fun." She turned around then and stepped up closer to him. Her lips still felt swollen and sore but she got on her tippy toes and kissed him gently on the cheek. She let go then and splashed a little water at him with a teasing smile, "You'll have to get me in the habit of waking earlier."

[amber]

Cinenth had drifted back off to sleep, yeah he was lazy, what else was new any more...

He smiled softly as she purred in response to his touch, this was interesting, every time, until now that is, after a mating flight the woman he had been with hadn't wanted him near her, but Ria seemed to love his touch. His smile widen when she spoke to him, "Aye that is true, but still I was expecting you to sleep much longer." He kissed her back, he saw her lips and almost felt slightly bad, but no no he had no reason to. Being 2 inches taller then her made kissing her easier then it might have been for another man to kiss her. When she splashed him he frowned for a moment before splashing her back. "I'm not sure you'd like that. Besides remember Cinenth wakes me and now he has no reason to wake early, not with your gold by his side." he told her as he sunk into the warm water...

[Ria]

Ria smiled again, wickedly as he splashed back, but she didn't carry on the game and instead, sank down deep into the water. She found it uncomfortable to just stand in a half crouch so that her entire body was submerged except her head. So, she leaned her back up against the wall of the bathing pool and, grabbing his wrist, pulled him in close beside her, nestling into his side. It was nice to be close to another man, one she could actually stand and did like in more than a friendly way. The other men who acted as "weyrmate" to her had been in direct contrast with her own personality and some she had bickered with nonstop. That was over now, she knew that each one had been the right one to lead the weyr during the pass, but now it was after. She knew that S'nar would be a great leader of the weyr, he had enough sense to ask if he needed advise, but she had let her emotions effect her dragon's choice. She had wanted him to be her actual weyrmate. For the moment, she hoped that Cinenth would be as cleaver in catching Henareth in later flights as he had been in this one. As S'nar spoke of waking her lips twitched, "No matter. That is just more moments under the warm furs." She smiled fully up the two inches at him and then closed her eyes and sighed in contentment, "I don't want to leave this warm water ever, the air felt too crisp when I got out of bed. Do you think the fog has settled in the bowl?"

[amber]

He smiled softly when she pulled herself into his side and then snuggled up to him. He draped his arm over her shoulders and gently stroked her arm. Yes this was way different, he was used to waking up after a flight and leaving the girl in her weyr and returning to his own weyr. Now he would possibly be sharing a weyr. He gently kissing her forehead as she spoke. 'Yes that is true, but I like to wake early. So I guess I'll have to make Ci wake up early. Of course he'll hate me, but I think he'll be okay. Yes the air is crisp, but if we aren't careful the water will cool and make us sick." The last part was more a joke, the chances of the water cooling were slim. "I'm not sure. It is probably going to settle soon if it hasn't." he pondered asking Cinenth, but decided against it. "Why do you ask?"

[Ria]

Ria laughed, "I think this is as cool as the water ever gets and I for one am glad of it." Then she grimaced, "I hate the fog, it seems to suck all my happiness away. My father used to tell me that it was because my mother's blood in me cooled too rapidly. Mother was from Nerat and didn't like the fog here either." She shook her head a little bit, trying not to get sucked into her parents. She hadn't know her mother for very long and her father had died not so long ago and that wound was still fresh. Soon her mind was drawn back to the present. As the watter lapped around her, she sighed in contentment, but the water wasn't all of it. The way that he had his arm around her, touching her own arm, made her long for the sort of weyrmate she had denied herself for so long. She snuggled closer to him and said in a soft imploring whisper, "S'nar, will you stay with me?" She put an stressed the word you, implying that non of the others had stayed.

[amber]

He smirked when she laughed "You are probably right" He commented, "No the fog makes the day seem normal, and like a waking mind. The fog is there to settle everything before it clears away leaving the day crisp clear and good. Nerat huh? That's an interesting place, but I'll stick to Benden or if I must Fort." He was content with the cooler temps and the shorter days. Yes it was nice to sit in the warm water touching another human who seemed to care for him. He idly continued to move his fingers over her arm. He leaned in close to her and in a gentle whisper "For as long as Henareth chooses Cinenth, and possibly beyond." he waited for a moment "So tell me of your parents"...

[Ria]

As S'nar answered her gentle plea, she smiled and wrapped her arms around him, embracing tightly. It was so good to have him so close to her and know that he would not leave her side. She didn't stiffen when he asked about her parents. She didn't mind talking about them, it was nice to talk about them in a way that helped her remember them. "Like I said, Mother was from Nerat. She died when I was only two turns, so most of what I know of her was from Father. She was a proude woman, proud of her heratige even though the Lord of Nerate had disowned her as his daughter. Father said she became weyrfolk in all but blood. She looked a lot like I do today though she was quite abit taller. You remember, brown rider R'iam who passed between last winter? That was my father, a good man. He did love to laugh, new riders in his wing always used to come into the lower caverns joking about how their wingsecond had been teasing the dragon's themselves." She giggled at the end of her tale, remembering so much more than she could ever put into words. She looked up at S'nar then and smiled, "You know, we grew up so close to eachother, yet I don't think that we ever even talked!" It was a shock to her, but she was some turns older than him hand had had her duties already when he had been tottling around the caverns. She locked eyes with him, gave a wicked grin, and poked him in the stomack with one long finger before saying, "Well we are just going to have to fix that right now. Tell me about your parents."

[amber]

He wrapped his arms around her and just sat there holding for for a few moments. "Ah yes I do remember R'iam he was a good man, he taught me some of what I know. Yeah we did I saw you every once and a while, but with the age difference I never had any reason to talk to you. I was always busy with some chore, and when I wasn't normally I was worn out from my chore." He smiled at her and when she poked him he splash her, but then he became solem "I don't know who my parents are, I was a weyrbrat and grew up with a group of other kids my age." he told her as before he went to climb out of the bath...

[Ria]

Ria reveled in the embrace and sank into the warmth of his arms. As he bacame solomn she felt sad that she had made him sad asking about his parents. She had been fortunate to know who was her parents. As he crawled out of the bath, she stood for a moment and looked up at him. How could she have been so lucky to have such a wonderful weyrmate. Instead of crawling over the side of the bath like he had, she walked around to the shallow side of the bathing pool and just stepped over the low edge. Dripping water on the cold stone floor, she walked quick, her feet chilling every moment that they touched the floor. Snatching up the bathing cloth from beside his, she smiled back at him as she scampered ahead into the sleeping room and onto the thick wool carpet. As she scrubbed her curls, she started pulling out cloths. She tossed her long heavy blue skirt across the sleeping room so that it landed on the bed. Her burgandy tunic followed as did the belt. She smiled at S'nar as she walked over and started dressing for the day. What would they have planned for today? Goodness, she had gone too long without a weyrleader and had never really had a true Weyrmate. What were they supposed to do as weyrmates and the weyr's leaders?

[amber]

He watched her throw her stuff across the room and he went after he's and couldn't find his, and then he remebered at he hadn't moved his stuff into her weyr yet. So he grabbed his clothes from the day before and then he looked behind him and saw the wet foot prints. "Opps. I left wet footprints and then my clothes and everything of mine ar still in my weyr and I don't think my lazy dragin is getting up any time soon." he said as he looked out at the sleep hulk of two dragons. he thought about just yelling for some drudges, but instead "I'm going to walk to my weyr and get some of my things, you are welcome to join me if you'd like"...

[Ria]

Ria looked up from tightening her belt as she spoke of going out. Her hair was relatively dry, dry enough not to drip or chill her head in the fog. Quickly she clipped it back from her face, slipped on her slippers and walked over to where he stood. Slideing her had around his elbow she smiled at him, "I would go farther than your weyr right now." It was nice not to have to crain her kneck to look at him. As they set off out the tunnel, Ria crained her head to see the dragons. Were they lying in the same mannor that their riders had been earlier? She smiled as she saw that they were indead in a sleeping embrase. Thinking about the day ahead, she asked, "S'nar, what are we going to do today? I fear that I made a horable weyrleader, where I think I make and acceptable weyrwoman."

[amber]

He smiled, pulled on his pants from the day before and left barefooted with her hand wrapped around his elbow. He took a second to look at the two dragons and smiled to also see them snuggling as they slept, yes they seemed happy with their choice as was he. "I believe my dear Ria that we will need to hold a meeting with the whole weyr and possibly the lord holder and discuss what needs to be done. No dear you made a fine weyrleader and did the best you could." He said as he paused their walk and leaned down to kiss her. After they kissed and resumed walking he continued to grin. "Yes I believe you will make a fine weyrwoman and weyrmate. They reached his room and he grabbed a bag from under the bed and began to fill it with clothes. He set a pair of pants, a tunic, and a pair of boots off to the side. They were not the best he owned, but certainly weren't the worst. the pants were a natural tan color, the tunic was a bright red and the boots were a darker tan, yes that outfit would work for the day. "Also I have to make my new knots at some point."...

[Ria]

Ria smiled and kissed him back as they walked, leaning slightly on his shoulder so as to maximise the closeness. A weyr gather indead, "I will have Henareth send some of the brown riders for the lord. Breakfast would be easiest to assemble them and that is still a good hour or two away." As they walked into what had been his weyr, Ria let go of his arm and walked around the weyr. It was smaller than her own was and seemed to her to be darker as well. She did admit that that was probably do to the hanings she had put in the weyr since she had taken the senior possition. As she walked around and trailed her fingers across the ledges of dressers and along the shelves. The whole time she watched him pack his cloths into the bag and then smiled as he chose his close. He wasn't, she noted with a pleased grin, showing off his new status by wearing his gather bests. She grinned as he spoke of the coards, "There are a few extra knots in the councel room. Some are quite nicely made. I think that is a past time of the weyrleader after he reaches a certain age." She giggled as she remembered some of her training as a junior queen rider with the old weyrleader. He had been endlessly braiding coards together. She did admit, he had been very skilled.