Morning Meeting
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: Patrick
Date Posted: 24th March 2006
Characters: Cortana, L'dani
Description: L'dani drops in on his sister to wish her happy birthingday
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 10, day 24 of Turn 3
Cortana woke with a start. She still wasn't used to waking up in the Barracks. Beside her, on her own couch was Anath. Cortana was still surprised that the little green had chosen her.
As was becoming a usual thing, firelizards had found there way onto the little green. All colors, mostly wild ones, were sleeping on or about the green.
"Go, shoo!" Cortana called to them, waving her hands in annoyance. Many faceted eyes opened to look at her in mild rebuke. After another hand wave, many winked /between/. The three that were left belonged to her own, Trill and Royal, and a small bronze body.
Trill turned to the bronze, and after a moment, he winked /between/. Trill chirruped, satisfied at scaring the bronze off.
"Shh!" Cortana called, not wishing to wake Anath, or disturb the sleep of any other dragonets. Cortana pulled a worn tunic, she had actually worn it when she had stitched up her brothers torn knee. The old human blood stains mixed with newer beast stains, a perfect shirt to work in.
Pulling up a pair of tough pants, Cortana belted her tunic and slipped her feet into her boots. Trill took her normal place up on her shoulder, the green flit staring at Royal until he too took a place on Cortana's shoulder.
Cortana had just finished lacing up her boot, when she felt the unmistakable presence of her hungry dragonet.
Anath yawned widly, and turn her green face to her rider, eyes tinted with the red of hunger.
**Come on, little one. Are you hungry?** Cortana asked her green.
}: Yes. :{ Anath replied, standing up. The party left the barracks into the early morning sun. Cortana sighed in pleasure. The two flits began to cavort in the warm morning air, chirping and squeeking.
After only a few steps Anath sighed. }: How much further? :{ she asked pitiously.
}: Not much, little one. :{ a blue told her just as Cortana told her the same.
Torloth landed next to the weyrling pair. His rider L'dani stepped down to speak with his sister. Cortana turned to her brother, she hadn't seen him since the Hatching.
"Happy Birthingday Sister." He called dropping to the ground. He ran up to give his sister a big hug. Cortana was shocked. She had forgotten it was her birthingday. Her parents had chosen to celebrate it early this year, the first had been the only day the fishers had been at port, and L'dani had come to the Gather in her honor. After all, that was where she was searched.
"I completly forgot." Cortana replied. "That's alright. Most of us do, when there's something so much more important that enters our lives." He smiled up at his blue. "Anyway, when I showed up at the Gather, I didn't have anything for you. So, Happy Birthingday!" He presented her with a wrapped parcel.
"Oh, you didn't have to!" Cortana said, taking the gift anyways.
"I didn't, I got in touch with Cianna's husband, you know, the harper. I brought him down one day and he sketched this for you. I just made the frame." L'dani smiled sheepishly.
Cortana opened the parcel. It was, of course, picture side down. She turned it over.
"Oh, L'dani..." It was a full color picture of her and Anath, sitting down for one of their lessons, Cortana leaning up against the green's back, both of them looking intently ahead of them. Trill and Royal sleeping next to Cortana's head. "I didn't even see him do it." She cried. The frame was carved from driftwood. It was two firelizards, painted in the colors of Trill and Royal.
"Happy Birthingday." L'dani said, happy his sister liked it so much.
As if she had read his mind, she hugged him saying, "I love it!" They stood there a moment, brother and sister.
Anath butted her head in between them. }: This is cute and all, but is anyone going to feed me? :{ Cortana told her brother this, and the two rider siblings burst out laughing.
Last updated on the March 24th 2006