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Post by sorra on Jan 26, 2011 18:03:31 GMT -5
Dessa led Freedom out of the stables. The mare pranced along behind her young friend. Dessa walked to a quiet part of the Weyr away from the dragons and turned her runner loose on the lounge line. The runner moved into a smooth trot. The girl clucked and Freedom switched gaits. Dessa didn't even notice anyone around her. She was concentrating on her mare.
Freedom whinnied happily and kicked up her heels before settling back in to listen. Dessa laughed as she watched her beloved runner.
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Post by taenia on Jan 27, 2011 17:21:22 GMT -5
She had a couple of moments spare between chores and lessons, and Ranelli had taken to exploring the weyr, now that it was officially able to be her home.. something, she felt, would take a while to sink in! Her explorations were frequent occurances, when she felt she could fit them in.. afterall, taking hr role as a candidate seriously, and trying to pull her weight around the weyr kept Ranelli very busy, but she always, always found time to wonder to this place or another..
...her favourate, and frequently visited place was the lake, a place she enjoyed to sit and watch the riders and their dragons interact..dreaming of what might be.. but today, she'd wondered over towards the beast pens.. growing up in a hold which sold mostly beasts, Ranelli couldn't help the fascination she still held with them, and so, sh stood.. watching the young girl Dessa (although she didn't know her name yet) work with the virbrant young mare.
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Post by sorra on Jan 28, 2011 11:17:22 GMT -5
Freedom stopped and sniffed the air. Her ears flicked and she snorted. Dessa stepped up to her runner. "What do you smell silly girl?" She knew the dragons were around, but they hadn't seemed to bother her earlier. Dessa glanced around and smiled when she saw where Freedom was looking.
"Hello!" she called to the girl watching them. Freedom snorted softly and nudged Dessa's shoulder. The teen giggled and walked over to Ranelli. "Sorry I didn't see you there to begin with."
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Post by Mik on Jan 28, 2011 16:18:16 GMT -5
M’cal was relaxing in the moments of sunlight before the afternoon rains, his icy blue Lukath contently dozing behind him as he leaned against him, lost in his own little world of taking in this Weyr that he was still getting to know. It was so different from K’ain’s icy domain and so much more peaceful by a long shot. While his gaze drifted across the Bowl, a girl and a runner caught his eye a distance away. At first, he did not really study the girl any. His eyes were drawn to the runner, bringing back memories of his peaceful life in South Sands before K’ain’s band of dragonriders ripped him away from everything that he held dear. The runner was beautiful to him and looked to be a great ride. He wondered who might have trained the pretty little thing but then she stopped and took up that stance that any runner with a personality took up as something caught her attention. His eyes were finally drawn to the girl as the distance closed between the two. She was actually quite the pretty little thing. Much prettier than he had seen in turns aside from his sister as she grew. The other girl was a pretty sight, too and she looked like someone that he might know, though he could not recall from where or why.
((OoC: He's just observing at the moment! He'll wander over in a few posts....))
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Post by taenia on Feb 6, 2011 3:58:13 GMT -5
"Sorry!" Ranelli exclaimed. "I didn't mean to distirb your work!" The girl said worriedly, the trainers at the hold had never been too impressed when someone did that to them, although they never shouted at Ranelli for it, probably because of her rank in the hold..and her mother, many people were scared of Ellimae. Now that Dessa's work had been distrupted anyway, Ranelli walked over the fence..might as well talk without having to shout..
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Post by sorra on Feb 6, 2011 8:47:30 GMT -5
Freedom calmed down a bit, but her ears were still perked as they neared Ranelli. She snorted softly as she stayed close to Dessa's shoulder. Dessa shook her head as she patted Freedom's shoulder. "No worries," she assured the girl. She didn't mind being interrupted. She had really only been stretching Freedom's legs. She smiled at the other girl, not even noticing M'cal watching them. "I'm Dessa and this is Freedom," she said friendly.
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Post by taenia on Feb 6, 2011 12:14:20 GMT -5
"I'm Lady Ranelli" She said, introducing herself in her normal manner... before remembering that she was no longer of that rank. "er.. I mean Candidate Ranelli" She said with a slight blush. She really hadn't been trying to pull rank, it was more that old habit's died hard.. and she'd introduced herself, or been introduced for so long as Lady Ranelli of Crooked River Hold.. that it was not always easy to remember that she was no longer beholden to crooked river hold, and neither was she a 'holder' anymore.. she was Ranelli, Candidate.. of Nova Weyr.
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Post by sorra on Feb 6, 2011 13:49:40 GMT -5
Dessa smiled. She wasn't put off by how Ranelli introduced herself. Thanks to her uncle she had met some many people and she was never offended by them. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Ranelli," she said cheerily. "Have you been at the Weyr long?" She couldn't recall seeing the girl, but she wasn't here all the time either. Freedom pranced behind her.
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Post by taenia on Feb 14, 2011 12:34:39 GMT -5
Ranelli relaxed, glad to see that the young girl in front of her was not going to make a fuss out of her 'mistake' it just went to show how different the weyr was to a hold.. at the hold someone, most likely one of the msny holder daughters (they were quite a bitchy lot!) would have pulled you to task for such manners.. claimed that you were trying to pull rank on them.. She was quite glad she wasn't considered one of them. "Thanks Dessa" She replied, she'd learend to be good with remembering names. "I've been here.. a little over two months.. I think" she replied to the other girls question, trying to look back and figure out just how long she had been here.. things had rolled together quite well since the day she'd run out on her marriage to Tardol, Nova's heir.
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Post by sorra on Feb 14, 2011 13:04:27 GMT -5
Dessa smiled and Freedom watched with perked ears. The runner slowly took a step forward and nudged Ranelli's hand. She was getting better with people and she was curious about this girl that her friend was talking to. She whickered softly in greeting and Dessa smiled. "Looks like she likes you," she said cheerily. She thought for a minute. "Do you like the Weyr? I visit as much as I can. My uncle's a rider here."
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Post by taenia on Feb 15, 2011 14:20:47 GMT -5
Ranelli smiled and held out her hand for the mare to sniff before she went on to scratch behind the runner's eats, knowing from her brief encounters that the creature's loved that type of attention in that specific space, a space that they couldn't always reach as much as they would like to. Ranelli was at ease with the runners, much more than she was with the dragons, but then, runner's were nothing like the great big flying beasts that she was going to present herself to in the hope to impress one.. and Ranelli had grown up in a hold that mainly prospered on the raising and selling of runners..
"She is beautiful.." she said to dessa, talking about the mare. "have you had her long?"
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Post by sorra on Feb 15, 2011 18:38:32 GMT -5
Freedom snorted softly and allowed Ranelli to pet her. The mare lowered her head, actually enjoying the attention. Dessa smiled. Her runner wasn't always that friendly. "I've had her since she was a yearling," she answered. "I trained her." Well, trained her as much as she could. She was thrilled that someone else seemed to like her runner as much as she did.
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Post by taenia on Feb 20, 2011 11:02:08 GMT -5
Ranelli grinned at the jet black runner, admiring the star and snip on the mare's noise. "She's very pretty.." she mused. "Her confirmation is really good.. " she said, looking back the spot she was grooming and on to the rest of the runner. She wasn't the worlds best knowledgeable person when it came to the beasts, but she was aware of a good animal when she saw one.
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Post by sorra on Feb 20, 2011 13:23:32 GMT -5
Dessa smiled brightly. She still hadn't noticed M'cal watching them. Although Freedom did and she snorted softly, looking toward the boy. "Thank you," Dessa said. "She's my best friend." She loved when other people seemed to appreciate her runner as much as she did.
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Post by taenia on Feb 27, 2011 12:03:21 GMT -5
Ranelli smiled but remained quiet as a moment of awkward silence passed them, a moment where neither knew what to say to the other... as was often the case when two new people met and ran out of things to say.. Her up bringing had shown her to make the most of these moments as they allowed for conversations to be steered in the direction another person wanted..but at this second in time, Ranelli didn't have any idea of what to say.. afterall, they were two very different people..
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