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Date Posted: 11:51:38 12/15/05 Thu
Author: Tathan
Subject: Everybody wants to know the score...
In reply to: A'ron and Mesatith 's message, "Howdy! I'm BACK!" on 19:21:15 12/14/05 Wed

She was still looking at him. Why in all of Pern was she still looking at him? What was so special about him that she wanted to keep talking to him like this? Frozen to the spot by both fear and the inherent desire to obey and placate that had been bred into him since birth, Tathan kept his eyes lowered. Now what did he say? She was apologising to him � yet another thing that was new. He said sorry for anything he did that could be perceived as bad, and occasionally back at home, if one of the younger girls had brushed up against him, there had been a murmured mutter of apology�but this was beyond strange. One of the first times someone had ever really, truly said they were sorry � and she hadn�t even done anything that she should apologise for! So it seemed to Tathan � for when a person is taught that everything someone of higher rank does is right, then he believes it. How did you learn that black was one colour and white another? Because you were told. And the people around you acted as if it were obvious.

�What d� you want?� Tath was close to despair. He didn�t care that he would be beaten for being rude, he just wanted her to stop playing with him and do whatever it was she wanted to do. �P-please, you c�n do what y� want, but don�t mess with me �ead�� He�d had enough of that in his short life already. People pretending to be nice so they could get him on his own. He wasn�t going to let this thing do that. Not now. Not here � he hadn�t run into any trouble yet, he didn�t want the Weyr ruined for him.

((Yay! I missed you two! How goes it � hope you get better soon, Pup! Hehe, my two will gladly respond to the weyrbrats should they pop up anywhere!))

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