Eye Candy

Writers: Heather K, Len
Date Posted: 25th June 2011

Characters: Delria, S'vin, G'wen, Catrien
Description: The gang scopes out what the Weyr has to offer
Location: Dragonsfall Weyr
Date: month 2, day 11 of Turn 6
Notes: Mentioned: E'naer, J'darin, J'nor, O'ryn

Twirling a piece of sandy blonde hair between her fingers, the fork she had
been using lay forgotten on her plate, Delria sighed. It seemed that she had
chosen the right time to come to breakfast because the Dining Cavern was full of
handsome dragonriders. A tall man who most accurately fit the description of
tall, dark, and handsome was currently the subject of her gaze...that was
until a more lively, blonder, and younger rider crossed his path. **Oh, so
many to choose from. I just want one. One for me and me alone,** she mused to
herself. She let out a sigh as yet another temptation caught her eye. It seemed
hopeless.

Beside the girl, S'vin was drooling almost as much over all the eye
candy. Sighing and leaning his chin on his hand, he muttered, "when's
that weyrling ban going to be lifted?"

Across the table, G'wen looked up from his breakfast and rolled his
eyes. "You two are_so_desperate."

Tearing her eyes away from the men, Delria looked at G'wen. "There's nothing
wrong with shopping, you know. It's fun, you should try it. I bet you'd like
it if you gave it a shot." Taking a quick drink, she turned her attentions back
to where the blonde rider had been only to find that he had
disappeared. She gave up, making a face at her disappointment, "Shards, now he's
gone." Picking up her fork, she took a bite of her breakfast which had now gone
quite cold.

S'vin eyed G'wen before saying to the girl, "He thinks, with his big
brown eyes, all he'll have to do is sit there and wait 'til Mr Right
shows up." He rolled his very un-brown eyes at that thought.

Delria joined in the eye rolling. "Oh, please. The good ones almost always need
chasing after. If all you do is sit there, G'wen, you'll miss your chance at him
because some beautiful young thing, like oh, I dunno, me or S'vin,
will scoop him up for their very own." Delria wasn't one to just sit
back and let
them come to here. It seemed foolish to think that everything good in
life get handed to
you, especially men.

G'wen just gave her a flat look at that. To him there seemed to be an
implication that he wasn't a beautiful young thing. Unfortuantly,
that fit into his view of himself. Grimacing at her, he turned back
to his breakfast.

S'vin rolled his eyes once more and said to Delria, "Oh, here's comes
the 'woe is me' look he likes to gives all us lower beings." He
studied his lifelong friend before turning back to the girl. "Y'know
I wouldn't put it past him to try and steal some gorgeous boy we get?"
There, that'd serve him right for being haughty.

After seeing the look she got from G'wen, Delria decided to ease up on him
a bit. She nodded as S'vin spoke, "You might be right about that. Though I'm
sure it would be totally unintentional. One look at him and even our boyfriends
would be tempted. That's why we have to get to work on them early."

"Well, that's why we'd just have to get ourselves more than one!"
S'vin winked at her, not being the type to stick to just one fella.

Delria laughed at her friend. "Have fun with that, dear. That's not for me." She
propped her head on her arm as she lazily played with her food. "I
just want one. One handsome, strong, and all around good man who loves
me and only
me. That's my kind of romance."

"You're at the wrong place then, for that." G'wen half smiled at that
thought. Even his da and T'bel weren't always faithful to one another
and they were as weyrmated as any two people could be.

"That's what I hear. I mean, I understand about flights and everything, I'm
talking about the in between times. That and not everyone at this weyr rides
a dragon you know." The fact that monogamy was not a part of weyrlife
was something that had been brought to Delria's attention numerous
times since she arrived.
Hearing about it was bordering on annoying.

Catrien looked up at that. Looking at the two boys, she mouthed, "New
girl," before turning back to her breakfast. She needed to eat fast
as she had promised that Jernina that she would wash her green for her
since the girl had gotten Threadscored and couldn't get out of bed,
let along take care of her comical little green.

Upon hearing Catrien's comment, Delria merely said "Hmph" and ignored the
girl. Friends they may be but this was one subject they never saw eye to
eye on. "In the mean time, there's nothing wrong with trying out different
things. That's the one part of weyrlinghood I'm not looking forward to. I have
a feeling that once I'm off the market, someone perfect will show up.
I just know it."

"Are you joking?" S'vin laughed. "It's quite the opposite...once
you're with a little green and 'off the market' all those boys on
dragons start panting around you, waiting with bated breath for that
fateful day when you start wanting some 'help' with getting ready for
that all important first Flight. Just ask G'wen here."

The boy in question glared at S'vin. "Ignore him. There's no one
'sniffing' around me, thank you_very_much."

Delria considered the scenario of men trying to cozy their way to her heart
while she was in Weyrlinghood. That was of course if there ever was a
weyrlinghood for her but she pushed those thoughts away for now. Now
was not the time to be mopey. "Well then, we'll just let them fall
over each other to get to me," she said back to S'vin. Turning her
attentions to
G'wen she continued, "And G'wen, pfft, please. You may not see it but
we all do.
There are plenty of potential suitors
eyeing you up. Get with the times. If you wanted to be Dragonfall's
most eligible bachelor, you could."

"Yeah, and my da would kill me." The small boy shuddered at that.
And secretly he wanted what Delria wanted as well, one guy to come
home to, something like what O'ryn and J'nor were stumbling towards.

She rolled her eyes at that. Always the father drama with this one.
"And what say does he have in how you life your life? I would think
that a father would want you to be happy." She sighed and then added,
"S'vin, can you maybe shed some light on the subject?"

S'vin smirked at that. "Oh yes, which bits d'you want? The bluerider
was a right man whore in his day."

The surprise upon hearing this showed on Delria's face. She had not heard
this piece of history yet and it put things into perspective for her. Maybe
G'wen's father was trying to keep him from following the same path, trying
a little too hard maybe. "Well, it all ended well enough for him, happily
weyrmated as he is. Happy endings do exist," she replied though she kept an
eye on G'wen, waiting for a reaction.

"Sometimes..." G'wen said, thinking of two of his friends who had been
weyrmated. One had just died in the last Threadfall. Wr'ren had been
young too, only two turns older than him. Perhaps Catrien had been
thinking along the sames lines, as she sighed and looked to the dark
boy.

Delria caught the glance and made a quizzical face. "Wait, what was that?
Surely there are happy endings, even in the Weyr? I mean, sure there are
some things that do not work out as planned but _someone_ has to be happy
here right? Or is it just people like S'vin that have all the fun, no offense
dear."

S'vin stuck his tongue out at her before glancing at the other two
across the table. "I think they're thinking of a friend of our's. He
just...well. He and his weyrmate were in a very cute little
romance...you would have liked them."

Another moment of realization came over Delria. Apparently, there were
more facets of Weyrlife that she had yet to understand. "Oh...I'm sorry,"
she said quietly. This conversation had certainly taken a turn for towards
darker subjects. This was not what she had had in mind for breakfast
conversation.

"Well, it's part of getting a dragon, eh?" S'vin gave her a sad smile
and patted her hand. She wouldn't have known about Wr'ren and he
didn't want her to feel badly for it. He and G'wen briefly made eye
contract as they both thought about the same thing, their first
Blooding. It was only two months away, now.

He was right, it was all part of living the life of a dragonrider. There
was a reason they got all the glory and prestige and it came with a great
price sometimes. A price that all too soon her friends may have to pay as
they fulfilled their duty and took to the skies for their first battle.
"I suppose it is. You guys will be fine though. Really you will. You know
what you're doing and your dragons even more so."

"You haven't seen his dragon," both boys said at the same time. They
looked at one another and giggled.

Beside them, Catrien rolled her eyes and said, "it's not your hides
I'd be worried about, it's more poor E'naer or J'darin's."

Delria gave a little laugh at the joke as well. It was true, both the boy's
dragons had their own delicacies; Neath with her haughty attitude and Kadeth's
small stature. In Delria's mind though they would both prove to be
proper dragons in Threadfall, or at least she hoped they would be for
all their sakes.
"I never want to be in their shoes. Too much pressure. Poor men being
responsible for you lot and all."

"Please," S'vin muttered. "All us cute Weyrlings about? They love it, I bet."

"Sure, S'vin, what ever you say," Delria replied completely
unconvinced. "They do have a job to do you know and I would think that
pining after
weyrlings would make that job rather difficult." Still though,
sometimes the only thing
childlike about a weyrling was their newly hatched lifemate.

"Hmm..I think E'naer goes for mature lovers, too, S'vin." G'wen eyed
his friend and tried to scrub the mental picture of him with the
Weyrlingmaster 3rd out of his mind.

"That settles it then. E'naer is off the market as far as you should
be concerned, S'vin. There's nothing mature about you," Delria said as
she elbowed her friend letting him know she was just messing around.

He harrumphed before nudging Delira and nodding to a particularly
beautiful blue rider that just walked in the hall. "What about him?
Whow, who's that?"

Both G'wen and Catrien looked over their shoulders to see who he was
drooling over. After taking a long look, the boy went back to picking
at his toast whilst Catrien answered. "Don't know his name but he
spent the night here. Transport duty from Vista Weyr."

Delria surveyed the bluerider in question. He wasn't bad looking at all,
he had a sweet face though he was on the stockier side which Delria didn't
prefer. "Meh, he's cute. You could do worse. Now there's a real specimen.
He's muscled, tall, deep eyes that you could stare into for days." She sighed
and discretely pointed out the man in question at a table across the way.

S'vin was about to comment on her choice in men when G'wen--who had
enough--lowered his head to the table and banged it once for Catrien's
benefit. "Oh, you drama queen," S'vin laughed at him. "There's
nothing wrong in looking. And besides...a certain somebody at this
table's going to be having a flight before you know it..." he added in
a sing-song voice, winking at Delria.

Delria giggled at G'wen's antics. "That's right. Better start making
introductions. I know it's dragon's choice and all but it couldn't hurt
to put a good word in."

At that, G'wen giggled, thinking about Neath's reaction to that.
"She'd probably just tell me to go stuff myself. She's got her heart
set on a bronze."

As he spoke, Delria was continuing to look around while she finished the
last of her food. It occurred to her that there didn't seem to be as many
people around as there had been, certainly not any Candidate types. "Oh, shards!
What time is it? I've got to get going you guys. Classes and all." She hurriedly
gathered her tray up and took off.

"Crap! Wait for me!" Catrien ran behind her, leaving the two boys to
chuckle and carry on with their observations.

Last updated on the July 6th 2011

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