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Writers: Eimi, Michelle
Date Posted: 10th February 2006

Characters: R'mer, T'delik
Description: Tikdelijk discovers that Reymer knows his terrible secret.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 10, day 4 of Turn 3

**Why do all of these candidates show up so early?** Tijdelijk asked himself as he entered the classroom a good quarter candlemark before class was set to begin. Then again he could remember the first time he was a candidate, and eager to please. Noticing only a few empty seats scattered around the room Tijdelijk picked one off to the side, next to a candidate he had seen aroun a few times but had never actually spoken to.

After settling in his seat Tijdelijk turned to the other boy, held out his hand and said, "I'm Tijdelijk and you are...?"

The boy looked up, and recognized the other candidate immediatly. **Oh shards...** It was the boy from the bathing pool. The extremely _friendly_ boy. "Um... Reymer..." he mumbled. Taking Tijdelkijk's hand, he gave it the briefest of shakes before turning his attention back to the hide in front of him. It didn't matter that he couldn't _read_ the hide really, it was just better than looking at the boy.

Tijdelkijk was a little put off by the other boy's cold behaviour.
Thinking that maybe Reymer was just shy he asked "watcha reading?"

"Ummm..." Reymer held it up and turned it around so the other boy could see it. "Just this."

"oh right," Tijdelijk nodded, "thats the one comparing wing growth isn't it." When Reymer didn't respond right away he went on to say, "not that I do any of the readings any more. I nearly know them by heart now, since I've been stading for so long ya know? I'm surprised that you haven't finished the readings yet, most first timers are so eager that they finish reading everything they are told to at the first available moment. But I used to try to do all my reading while I was bathing.
Saved free time that way. You can never have enough free time." Ty didn't know why he was rambling on so much, it was quite out of character for him to do so. Once he realised that he was talking must faster than he ought to he shut his mouth and stared at Reymer, hoping that the boy would make so effort to respond.

"You read while you're bathing?" the candidate finally asked, his expression rather skepticle.

"Ya," Tijdelijk nodded, "gives me something to do, an excuse to stay in the hot water longer than necessary I guess."

Reymer snorted. It didn't look like reading the candidate was doing that kept him in that bathing pool. The thought that he would have to bathe in the same water were something like... like _that_ had happened...

"Why'd you laugh?" Tijdelijk asked defensively. It wasn't every day that he opened up and tried to meet someone new.

"When I saw you in the bathing pool you sure didn't look like you were reading. Unless there were words on that other boy's back I couldn't see."

"What?" Tijdelijk spat, his face turning bright red. He hadn't thought that anyone had seen them that day. After all no one came into the bathing chamber in mid-afternoon. Ever.

But Reymer did. He just couldn't get comfortable bathing with everyone like that. Especially the way some of the girls smiled at him and tried to get him to look at them by asking him for the sweetsand. One girl even leaned over him to get it! And then to walk in on that during the afternoon... "You know what I'm talking about."

"Shards," Tijdelijk swore to himself "I told him to leave me alone in there."

"Yeah, well, you didn't seem to mind too much that he didn't." Reymer looked everywhere but at the boy. Shards, he couldn't believe he was even talking about this.

"Look I don't want to talk about it," Tijdelijk hissed, noticing that some of the other candidates were beginning to stare, "It wasn't supposed to happen like that. It was a sharding accident. Ok?"

Reymer shrugged. "Sure." He really didn't want to talk about it anyway. Talking about it lead to thinking about it and that just made him feel nausiated.

Tijdelijk then turned away from the other candidate trying to hide his blushing face. That was the last time he ever did anything in a public space, especially with another man.

Last updated on the February 11th 2006

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