Favorite Pastimes

Writers: Suzee, Len
Date Posted: 24th February 2011

Characters: Jaylene, D'ale
Description: D'ale retreats to River Buff Weyr's dining hall and runs into old friend Jaylene
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 13, day 17 of Turn 5
Notes: Meantioned: J'ren, Uetia, P'veas, K'ale

Jaylene

D'ale

He walked into the dining hall and ran a hand through his hair. Lesora
had Dalora for a few candlemarks and he couldn't stay there. It was just too uncomfortable so he decided to see if he could grab a bite and maybe
chat with an old friend from his days here.

"Hello stranger!" The tall figure of Jaylene walked up, her auburn
hair tangled in ringlets and sweat, having just completed her sweep
ride for the day. "So where have you been keeping yourself these
days?"

He turned recognizing the voice and smiled as he grabbed a tray.
"Hello Jay." he said "I've transferred to Dragonsfall. Just here for
the afternoon so my little girl can spend some time with her mother."

"Draonsfall? Isn't it a bit cold there?" She looked away at the site
of food, being too tired to eat at the moment. A nice cold lager was
what she needed right now.

He smiled "it can be, but you dress for it and there are other
rewards." He walked down the line and filled his tray, and following
her lead took a mug of the lager. "Looks like you've had a workout in
the heat."

"Oh, just a sweep ride. Reanth thought she saw something and we spent
a lot of time just hovering above the tree line." She shook her head
at her curious green. "Turns out it was just a feline. Reanth was
besotted with the bloody thing."

He laughed and shook his head. "Torerath had a similar reaction once,"
he said. "I don't know why they're so fascinated." He shrugged. "So
how's the wing doing?" he asked. Not sure if he wanted to really know
about the losses that had occurred while he was away.

"We're good," she said cautiously. She was sure he didn't want to hear
about the loss of a newly appointed brown rider, fresh from the
Weyrling ranks. Changing the subject, she asked, "so..I seem to
recall you wanted to be by your boy at Dragonsfall. How is he?" She
slid into a seat and propped her feet up on the bench.

He pulled the dishes off the tray and picked up his fork. "He's good!"
he said. "He just impressed brown." D'ale's pride shone in his face
and in his voice.

"Like father like son, eh?" Jaylene grinned. She never met the man's
son, but if he was anything like his father, he would be easy on the
eyes. "My brother and I are still trying to convince our baby brother
to Stand one last time."

D'ale laughed "Well, I'm sure he'll develop. Of course right now he's
a weyrling and always exhausted." He felt pride and thought his son
would have a great career, but he firmly pushed the dangers to the
back of his mind. He accepted them for himself but it was harder as a
father. "So other than pushing your brother around what are you up
to?" he asked with a half smile.

"Ah, the usual, bossing him and J'zen, and sunning myself with my
girls, Uetia and P'veas. Nothing too unusual, other than I went to a
gather at Fort with J'ren the other day. Loved that! The Northern
attitues are great, so much more liberal than down here." She downed
half her pint, figuring D'ale wouldn't think any less of her doing so.
Whipping the sweat from her forehead, she muttered, "bloody shards,
that was a long, hot sweep."

"Oh the gather sounds fun," he said. "Find anything good?" He bit into
a meat pie and though it was good it still didn't match the ones that
friend of his son's made. He half smiled as he chewed and watched a
drop slide down the side of her neck and into her cleavage. **nice**
he thought. They'd never gotten together in the past but he'd always
had an eye on her.

"Yeah, some new fabric for a tunic for Jayonne and a belt for J'zen
since he lost his best one in the weyr of yet another 'he's my future
lifemate' partner and was too embarrested to go get when it turned out
to just be a fling." She rolled her eyes at J'zen's high ideals of
love. She half grinned as she watched D'ale's eyes on her breasts.
"And the food was nice."

The whole lifemate partner hadn't worked out for him either, so he'd
found a great satisfaction in simple entertainments with the female
population of the Weyr. He applied himself with gusto and his efforts
were normally very well received. He tended to recognize the romantic
glint and extract himself before it got too deep. He wasn't one to
lead anyone on or let them expect some kind of rosy future. His eyes
rose again to meet her half grin. Message passed. "Hmm." he said
softly, "I wonder why Torerath has never caught your lovely Reanth,
it's a tragedy."

"Well...do you like boys? If not, then that's why Torerath never
caught my girl. She's only into blues with gay riders. We have a
higher than normal population that need a mindhealer after our Flights, thanks to her preference." She rolled her eyes at that. "Makes a girl lonely, y'know?"

"Can't say that I do," he said. "I've had my share of flights but
beyond that," he smiled slowly. "I'm much more interested in a lonely
girl." He draped his arm across the back of her chair. "I have a few
hours to kill before I pick up my daughter. Do you want to go some
where?"

She laughed. "Oh, so you think I'm as easy as that?"

He raised a brow. "No, what I heard was lonely, not easy." He leaned a
little closer. "Did I misunderstand?"

Her grin deepened. Should she string him along, or just take him back
to her weyr for a few hours of fun? She pondered for a few flicks of
the candle before saying, "well, you gonna get us a bottle of some
nice white or were you just planning on licking the sweat off me?"

"Oh, I don't know. Both sound good to me," he said with a lazy smile.

"Well, you provide the wine, I'll provide the sweat." She stood up.
"You coming as well, or are you just going to sit there and gawk?"

He rose to follow her acquiring a bottle of wine on the way out of the
dining hall. Fortunately his prior time spent at Riverbluff had made
him familiar with the local wines so he knew which one was the best
when she'd suggested white.

"Gawking is one of my favorite pastimes." he said.

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