Take Your Punishment
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: Eimi, Clancey, Bree
Date Posted: 16th March 2007
Characters: J'darin, Karaleigh, Y'sani
Description: J'darin finds out what Luthinath's rider _did_.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 2, day 27 of Turn 4
}: Luthinath's says he is sorry for what he is about to do :{ Hasaarth's sending pulled J'darin out of an evening in Maurgen's company and he nearly fell out of bed.
*** What? ***
There was nothing further for some time, until Hasaarth told him he should go to the Infirmary and find out why Kizynth's rider was hurt. Flinging his clothes back on, he raced for his bronze, blowing Maurgen a kiss as he did so.
When he arrived at the Infirmary, Y'sani's glare did nothing to halt his temper. He met the Weyrlingmaster glare for glare. "Talk quickly, Y'sani. What the shards is Luthinath babbling to Hasaarth about?!" Y'sani glanced at Karaleigh and then lowered his voice to avoid being overheard by the healers who were doing their best to pretend they weren't hanging on every word. "O'dan got drunk and stupid. I didn't hit him hard enough to hurt him, and Kizynth is fine."
J'darin stared at his fellow bronzerider for several heartbeats. Rage, shock and disbelief chased themselves across his face, his expressive blue eyes narrowed at Y'sani.
"You. Hit. O'dan."
"Sir, it wasn't Y'sani's fault. He was protecting me." Most of the time, at least, Karaleigh thought. "O'dan was drunk and... being stupid. He wasn't himself. But Y'sani didn't hit him without reason." At least, she was sure he had a reason for that punch.
Y'sani cast a quelling look at Karaleigh. "Thank you, Karaleigh, but I don't need anyone to try to protect me." He turned back to J'darin.
"What the lady was too polite to say was that O'dan had gotten his hands on her and wasn't taking no for an answer. When I pried him off, he decided to get nasty."
"Well, I wouldn't exactly say he got his _hands_ on me," Karaleigh corrected, undaunted in her intentions to protect _both_ men. It wasn't a lie, after all. It was more O'dan's _lips_ that had been the problem.
"Though I could understand why Y'sani saw it that way. It certainly might have gone that direction had Y'sani not intervened. Like I said, O'dan was very drunk."
J'darin turned to Karaleigh. "Thank you for your help, Karaleigh, but please let me handle this, it is a matter between riders. You may go back to your weyr if you wish." He was polite and genuine in his thanks for her story, but he needed to speak to Y'sani, and he couldn't think with her jumping in every other sentence. "Y'sani, you are a bronzerider and not a common brawler. In point of fact, you're the sharding Weyrlingmaster! What will the young ones think when they hear?" His voice was as cold as his eyes had been heated when he had arrived.
He considered his Weyrlingmaster for a moment. "You should NOT have hit him.
And he should have known better than to force his attentions on Karaleigh." He was quiet again. His conscience warred with his traditional beliefs. He didn't mind O'dan getting hit, but he had to do _something_ to Y'sani. And O'dan. "Where is O'dan? Still with the Healers?"
Y'sani nodded shortly. "I didn't hurt him, J'darin. I might have lost my temper a little bit, but I didn't put him or his dragon in any danger."
J'darin snorted. "Might as well say 'well it wasn't too bad a Scoring', Y'sani.
You _did_ lose your temper, and for that I think I'll put you on extra duties for a time, but I won't be stripping your knots. It sounds as if someone had to intervene to force him out, although dunking him in the nearest lake might have been better." He mused aloud. "I'll have words for O'dan, as well, when he appears." "Extra duties?" Y'sani snorted. "Those would be a reward, J'darin... but you'd have to get someone else to handle the weyrlings while I did them. I don't know if your plan is to make my life easier. But whatever you do to me, you can't sacrifice the weyrling's training for it." Considering how raw his emotions were from the recent Blooding, he almost wished he _could_ hand his responsibilities over to someone else. But his dedication to his job and lack of a personal life was _why_ the senior weyrlings had come through their recent ordeal with so few tragedies. J'darin's glare turned from burning heat to ice in a moment. "Y'sani, I do _not_ need _you_ to tell me not to sacrifice riders for punishment! Of course I wouldn't do that! Whatever you did to O'dan he probably deserved, but I have to punish you. I was thinking I'd have our new Headwoman find something for your hands to do, since you clearly have time enough to spend with the lovely harper there AND time to "protect her honor". You will _find_ the time. And take your punishment like any rider." Y'sani gave the Weyrleader a poisonous smile. "You might want to look into just how I spend my time, J'darin. You wouldn't want to sound like a fool if your assumptions proved to be false." The man who had wasted his time leading a sharding _waterball_ team was going to take him to task for taking out a few candlemarks to _sleep_? It was so absurd Y'sani couldn't even get angry. "You sharding idiot, Y'sani! We're all too busy. You're busy training them, and I'm busy trying to figure out how to fight Thread without them! Get out of my sight. Report to the Headwoman tomorrow morning for dish and laundry chores for a full sevenday. I will educate the weyrlings on the reason for your absence in a way even you will not mind, despite the fact that it is _me_."
Last updated on the November 16th 2007