The Truth is Probably Best

Writers: Cali, AL
Date Posted: 5th November 2008

Characters: Sorsha, Ri'len
Description: Sorsha and Railen decide to tell his parents they want to marry.
Location: Elsewhere on Pern
Date: month 12, day 17 of Turn 4

Sorsha gazed at the sun starting to lower sat up. It was comfortable and peaceful to lay with Railen in the grasses, but it was time to get back to the hold, they'd already been gone too long. "I think we should talk to your parents tonight, they're going to start talking the way we've been sneaking off."

"I was thinking we would wait until your father visited." Railen rolled over to his side, lifted himself onto his elbow and propped his head in his hand as he gazed at her. "Isn't he supposed to be coming in the next sevenday or so?"

"It'd be nice if he did. He just told me soon... and before Turn's End." She whistled to the two runners who had wandered towards a clump of edible berries and they trotted over to the two. "If we tell them now though, we won't have hide. I hate not being able to hold your hand at meals, or just to hug you when I see you in the yard." "We can tell them." Railen had to admit it would be nice to be free to express their feelings for one another. "At dinner then."

Sorsha giggled as she gave her mare a scratch by the ear. "I think dinner's probably about over by now. But they'll want to know why we were late..."

"Is it?" Had they been there that long? Railen took a look at the position of the sun and actually paid attention to where it was. "Oh. I guess you're right." He pushed himself to his feet. "I guess we'll have to scrounge something up for dinner." He reached down and plucked the blanket from the grass, folding it as he gave her a grin. "What excuse can we make this time?"

"Well I think if I come back claiming I fell into the river again that they'll start to wonder about this sea gal." she reasoned as she hoisted herself up onto her runner.

"I'd suggest that one of the runners ran off, but these two are too calm for that sort of behavior." Railen waited to be sure she was secure before he too mounted. "I guess we could simply say we lost track of the time."

Sorsha smiled, "The truth is probably best. We are going to tell them about us after all." "If that is what you want, I won't fight it." Railen brought his runner up alongside Sorsha's. "I suppose there's really no good reason not to."

"Not now that your father's back." It hadn't seemed right to tell Karai alone when Serend had gone rushing off to a neighboring hold a few days back. "I just hope they'll be happy for us."

"I think they will be." Railen grinned broadly. "I know I am! Come on, if we're going to tell them, let's do it. Then maybe they'll let us be alone for a little while longer."

"Or they won't let us be alone at all." Railen had said that they hadn't finalized the marriage agreement with her father. What if they decided she wasn't good enough for him to marry?

"I'm sure we can finagle something." The young man's expression took on a mischievous look. "I can always get you out of bed in the middle of the night."

Sorsha blushed, "That should probably stop, someone will catch us eventually."

"Not if we're careful." Railen chuckled a bit at her colour and then urged the runner on. "We just have to be creative."

Last updated on the November 8th 2008

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