Special News

Writers: Eimi
Date Posted: 30th July 2007

Characters: Mirez, Rakori, Iraban, Yebis
Description: A group of weyrbrats bear witness to a blessed event
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 5, day 6 of Turn 4

"Hey guys! Did I miss it?" A chorus of "Shhhhhhhhh!" was the reply.

"Shards and shells, Mirez, keep your voice down!" Rakori whispered.

"Sorry," he said contritely as Mirez got down on his belly and crawled towards the edge of the ledge. "How many are there so far?"

"42," Iraban whispered loudly. "43," Rakori corrected him as the gold down on the Sands moved to reveal another mottled shell.

"I have sandwiches!"

"Shhhhhhh! Shards, Yebis, how many scortching times do I have to tell you to be quiet?" Rakori quietly growled. "Do you sharding know what golds do to little children they catch watching them Clutch?"

Iraban gave Rakori's shoulder a shove. "Stop scaring him. Come on, Yebis, pass a sandwich over here."

The youngster pouted as he obediently dolled out their lunches.

"Hey, did anyone ask you why you weren't in Harper classes?" Mirez asked worriedly as he took the offered sandwich. "Yeah, but I told them my fostermother was having another baby," Yebis whispered loudly as he crawled up to the edge.

"Good thinking," Rakori grinned, giving the younger boy's hair an approving ruffle.

The youngster batted the hand away, but he still felt a glow of pride at the older boy's praise. "How many now?"

"44."

"44!" the boy cried excitedly.

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"44?" he whispered. "That's a lot!"

"Yeah, must have been one scortching good flight," Rakori grinned, giving Mirez a knowing shove. Iraban rolled his eyes. "Do you kiss your fostermother with that mouth?" Rakori shrugged. "No, but I kiss _your_ fostermother with this mouth."

"Hey!"

"Shhhhh."

"45."

"I'm gonna get me one of them someday," Mirez said with a far off look as he rested his chin in his hand. "I'd take that big one over there. That one over by the far wall. I bet that one's a bronze."

"I'm gonna get a bronze," Rakori agreed. "The biggest bronze ever Hatched on Pern."

"Yeah, and I'm gonna burn up Thread so fast it won't even know what hit it," Iraban grinned.

"Wherry brain, Thread _never_ knows what hits it. It's not like its sharding alive or anything," Rakori said with the air of an expert.

Mirez snorted. "You're the wherry brain, Rakori. Of course Thread's alive. It has to be alive to eat, don't it?"

"Yeah, but not alive like _we're_ alive," Rakori frowned, hating being corrected. "46," Yebis whispered, stopping the debate. "Shards, how many eggs can a gold have in their belly?"

"Depends on how big the gold is," Iraban shrugged. "I think she's done though. Still, 46 is a pretty good number."

"Yeah, but how does she fit that many eggs in her stomach?" Yebis asked the older boys curiously.

Rakori groaned. "Stupid, they aren't in here stomach."

"Well then were are they then?" Iraban asked, fixing him with a doubtful look.

The boy shrugged. "I don't know, but if they were in her stomach she'd be eating them, right?"

"Shards, you all have the brains of tunnel snakes," Mirez sighed. "They're in her uterus."

"What's a uterus?" Yebis asked innocently.

"Its the place baby's are made," Mirez shrugged. He wasn't exactly sure himself, but he knew that much at least.

"Yeah, but uterus' only fit one, maybe two babies at a time," Rakori pointed out.

"Hey guys?" Iraban whispered.

Ignoring him they continued their own discussion. "Well, dragon's are bigger, so its dragon-sized."

"Is that why golds are so big?" Yebis asked, making a cognitive leap towards figuring out an answer to the mystery. "So they can have a big uterus?"

"Guys!" Iraban whispered a bit more loudly.

Rakori was pretty sure he knew the answer to that one. "No, golds are so big just so they can keep control on all the bronzes. The bronzes wouldn't listen to the golds if they were smaller than them."

"Guys!"

"Shhhhhhhhh!"

"Vilarth isn't done! Look!" Iraban pointed their attention back down to the edge of the Sands. They all had to inch slightly forward to see the golden body almost directly below them.

"Nah, she's just settling herself," Mirez sighed and inched back.

"What are you, a sharding retard?" Rakori asked, giving him a disgusted glare. "Look at her back half. She's not laying down. She's laying another egg!"

"Why is she so far away from the rest of the eggs?" Yebis asked as he curled his fingers around the edge of the stone ledge.

"I think its a special egg," Iraban whispered, a slight hint of awe in his voice.

"Why is it special?" Yebis asked another loud murmur.

The boys were all silent as the gold finally turned to nudge sand around a glistening gold tinted shell.

"A gold!" they all cried in unison, followed by a chorus of "shhhhhhh!"

"Come on," Rakori whispered loudly as he inched back away from the edge.
"Let's get out of here before Lenala sees us!"

The boy's obediently leapt to their feet and hurried back out into the hallway. Gleefully they ran down the stairs, they couldn't wait to tell everyone everything they had just seen. Forty-six eggs and a gold! No one would care that they were missing Harper classes when they had news like that to tell!

Last updated on the July 31st 2007

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