Special After All
Dragonsfall Weyr
Amber Hills Hold
Vintner Hall
Healer Hall
Hidden Meadows
Dolphin Cove Weyr
Dolphin Hall
Emerald Falls Hold
Harper Hall
Printer Hall
Green Valley Hold
Leeward Lagoon Hold
Barrier Lake Weyr
Sunstone Seahold
Citrus Bay Hold
Writers: Rochelle
Date Posted: 31st October 2006
Characters: D'rue
Description: Daiirue Impresses while struggling with a hangover.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 13, day 14 of Turn 3
Notes: Follows "Candys are Dandy But Liquor is Quicker."
Daiirue stumbled determinedly after the other candidates, struggling to finish getting his arm through the sleeve hole as he moved. Shard it! He hadn't expected things to move so... _quickly_!
The world lurched, and he felt his stomach try to rebel. Clapping a hand over his mouth, he struggled to swallow down the vile flavor in his mouth.
He shouldn't have accepted the wine... He _knew_ that he got drunk easily, shardit! And now...
He swallowed again, and hurried to keep up before someone else passed him.
The hatching was important. Nothing else. He had been Searched, which meant there might be a dragon for him waiting on the sands, and he'd better sharding be there! What he had done or didn't do the night before didn't matter... even if he couldn't remember what happened.
Even if he'd woken up naked in another man's arms...
He tried to shake the implication out of his head, and staggered when the world spun. One of the assistants was frowning at him now. Desperately, he moved after the rest of the barracks, into the hatching cavern.
Quickly, his head whirling, he followed a group of boys across the sands, trying desperately _not_ to think about what was happening. He had just a moment to register that the humming was deafening now, with every dragon there leaning intently forward as their throats vibrated.
The hum changed as one of the violently rocking eggs started cracking, followed by several others. Daiirue watched, suddenly enraptured despite his hangover, as a brown arm emerged from the first egg, followed by the rest of the squealing dragonet. As the little brown stumbled toward a group of boys, Daiirue's attention switched to two other dragonets who had just hatched. Greens.
He stopped breathing for a moment, his heart dropping right out of his chest as he watched the two making toward his group of candidates. Toward him! Greens... coming toward him... Waking with a naked man... With a shriek, the dragonets veered away from him and Impressed two men just to his side, behind Virnoren. Daiirue didn't dare breathe until he saw the pairs walking toward the entrance, and prayed that the rest of the dragonets would look elsewhere. He didn't think he could survive the hatching if it happened again.
More dragonets were hatching now, and a brown and some blues were wandering around. Warily, he kept an eye on the blues as the candidates shifted around him, closing the gaps left by the Impressed. There were so many little greens...
His breath caught as he good a good look at the brown approaching his group. It seemed to know exactly who it was looking for, and Daiirue tried to nerve himself to step aside when he saw the dragonet was heading in his direction. They'd told them in class to get out of the way...
Oh, but he didn't want to! His hangover seemed to have vanished in the sudden painful hope that it might be him, that the brown might want him...
That he might be special after all...
He tore his eyes away from the brown to watch as a girl stepped aside and made Impression with one of the greens he'd been eyeing, resolving frantically that if he could just make it through the hatching he'd leave the weyr and never have to think about what happened again...
Out of the corner of his eye he saw one of the other boys step in front of the rapidly approaching little brown, and he felt his heart sink all the way to the sands. Not for him then. He turned to look at another Impression, one of the blues, when a flurry of activity snapped his head back around. He had just enough time to register the boy was sprawled on the sand before his eyes met the dragonet before him.
His brain exploded. He could feel the little brown's relief at finding him, the excitement and boundless love suddenly flooding his entire body as Impression was made. Walls he hadn't known he'd built were melted away, and he suddenly felt like he could do anything, anything in the world as long as his dragon was with him.
}:Daiirue, I am Wisarth!:{
Last updated on the November 1st 2006