Walk and Talk

Writers: Chelle, Jane
Date Posted: 10th January 2010

Characters: E'rae, Jh'slaen
Description: The two take a walk and discuss random thoughts.
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 7, day 5 of Turn 5

Scratching himself as he bent down to tie the laces of his boot, E'rae wished there weren't so much infernal sand everywhere. He was looking forward to the bath he planned later. Luckily, it wasn't going to rain, so it was good weather for a walk. He planned on it helping the soreness he still had in his leg after exercises.

**I wonder if he's going to show**

}:I think he is coming. Patience:{

"Sorry I'm late," Jh'slaen said, jogging up to the other rider and breathing deeply.

"It's all right. You ready?" E'rae looked him over to see if he looked prepared.

"Uh-oh." Jh'slaen had been rather unprepared when the other rider had taken him hunting - hunting! - and suddenly the proposed walk seemed likely to turn into more than he had expected. Hadn't a _walk_ sounded easy enough? "I'm ... dressed? Have a hat?" Was there more?

"How about a waterskin?" E'rae laughed inwardly at the look on Jh'slaen's face. The greenrider never ceased to amuse him. Perhaps that was why he kept inviting him on outings.

"Er - Why?" Jh'slaen cleared his throat after the squeak that the question had been. "Are we going far?"

"I've started to realize my idea of not far and yours aren't the same. Whereas I may not need a skin, you might want one." E'rae hoped that sounded polite enough.

"Well I don't have one," Jh'slaen admitted. "Perhaps I should go back -"

His tone was hopeful. "Nah you can just take mine. I probably won't need it anyway." E'rae handed it over, then began walking towards the exit. "So how are things with you lately?"

"Good." Jh'slaen considered his reply but it was true. "Saradath and I are doing fine. We're content. How about you, E'rae?"

"Leith's doing all right though he seems to chasing every tail he can find." Shaking his head at his dragon's antics, he skirted a small depression in the ground. "Me..I've just been doing the usual."

Jh'slaen smiled. "At least chasing's one thing I don't have to worry about with Saradath."

"Aye but you're on the other end of that equation. Don't know if it's better or worse." That was one thing E'rae didn't know. He understood the breeding aspect, having studied animals enough, but he didn't understand the female's experience.

"Saradath always wins," Jh'slaen said with a smile and a shrug.

"Have you met the new Weyrwoman yet?' E'rae thought it was funny how some of the others quaked in fear. He didn't give a rip personally since he dealt more with the Weyrleader. As a blue, he wouldn't have to come in much contact with her anyway.

"No. Oh, once, when she drew F'naren and I and asked him for our names. But she didn't speak to me."

"Wait, she drew you?" E'rae looked at him curiously.

"She's always scribbling away on that sketch paper she carries. Little pictures, F'naren said. Funny things with exaggerated features." The greenrider shrugged. "F'naren saw them - I didn't."

E'rae thought about that silently as they walked. "How strange.." Putting a hand out to pick a leaf off, he tore it into pieces. "I've been thinking if I should send my daughter to the Hold."

"_Why_?" Jh'slaen couldn't imagine returning to his old life at the Hold and wondered what would prompt E'rae to send his half-grown daughter back into that life.

"Well all she's known is Weyrlife and I wonder if it might be good for her to see both sides of the coin before she grows to be an adult." He would hate for her to go blindly into anything.

"Will they treat her all right? I know they're your family, but other people? Will she be all right there?"

"Aye there shouldn't be a problem." The former holder in him scoffed at Jh'slaen's notion that they would treat Weyrbred children any different.

"Hmm." Jh'slaen had grown up being different in more ways than one and while his family and the neighbours hadn't been a concern, he had felt less-than-accepted around others. "You'll visit her, though, won't you?"

"Aye sure. I visit enough now anyway. Don't see that changing." E'rae missed the life he'd led as a holder at times. He wouldn't ever give up Leith but sometimes he wished he could have both. He wanted Werenn to see that part of him.

Jh'slaen turned back and looked along the beach toward the cliffs that housed River Bluff Weyr and grimaced. "We turning back any time soon, E'rae?"

He caught the note in Jh'slaen's voice and decided to take pity on the other rider. "Yeah sure, now's good."

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