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Date Posted: 07:01:29 05/15/05 Sun
Author: Tathan
Subject: Mopping...
In reply to: Nerilki 's message, "Waking up" on 16:50:08 05/11/05 Wed

Dark eyes shyly looking out from under his long-ish hair, Tathan was making his slow way down the corridor. Moving a few steps forward, he dipped his mop into the pail of water mixed with soapsand, and washed the stone floor of the corridor around him � before picking up the pail and moving forward once again. The door to the weyr nearest to him was open, and he couldn�t help but look in � even though he wasn�t supposed to. The woman who had charge of the newer drudges was adamant on that. You didn�t spy on the riders, because they needed all the rest they could get � they were the guardians of Pern, after all. But the woman was nice to him, seemed to have taken him under her wing, as it were. She knew that he liked to be on his own more than anything, so she gave him the more solitary jobs: like mopping the floor of the corridors in the weyrs.

His eyes widened when a large canine left the open door of the weyr, but it paid him no heed and so he carried on. The only canines he had encountered before now had been the ones the Holdless trained for hunting, and for collecting that game shot down from the sky. But a lot of the riders and other people here kept them as pets, for companionship. Tath had never encountered that before. Lots of people here had fire-lizards, as well, that he knew. They made good pets, he�d been told � but they couldn�t be the kind of thing someone like him should have, could they?

Trying to be as quiet as he could be, he did the floor outside the open door. Picking up a strand of wool from the floor, he looked into the weyr. Though he had been told not to disturb riders, and the young woman looked so peaceful with her embroidery, the young man knocked on the door politely. �Greenrider?� He asked, biting his lip � he still didn�t like talking to people � and holding up the wool in his hand by way of explanation, and reaching down to pick up more of the blanket that the two creatures had torn apart. �D�you want me to take that ripped blanket away?�

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Replies:

The world is quiet here -- Nerilki (Avianyth), 09:33:40 05/15/05 Sun
- Fixing... -- Tathan, 09:57:02 05/15/05 Sun
  - Crazy/Eye of the storm -- Nerilki (Avianyth), 12:53:33 05/15/05 Sun
    - Gathering... -- Tathan, 13:33:41 05/15/05 Sun
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        Which are... -- Tathan, 23:56:51 05/15/05 Sun
        Extremely odd . . . I have one . . . -- Nerilki (Avianyth), 22:50:09 05/16/05 Mon
        ...Mine broke...didn't work before though... -- Tathan, 08:31:04 05/17/05 Tue
        Mine still works . . . it's green, which means that I am really stressed -- Nerilki (Avianyth), 18:39:08 05/17/05 Tue
        And are you? -- Tathan, 12:47:50 05/18/05 Wed
        I was. I was nervous over my Algebra grade, which is slowly getting better -- Nerilki (Avianyth), 13:50:07 05/18/05 Wed
        Relax - it can't be as bad as my physics one... -- Tathan, 10:56:37 05/19/05 Thu
        What the- this is the THIRD time I've posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Nerilki(Avianyth), 18:56:49 05/21/05 Sat
        Hehehe. Voy is evil... -- Tathan, 01:05:57 05/22/05 Sun
        Yes it is -- Nerilki(Avianyth), 10:04:10 05/22/05 Sun
        Hehe. -- Tathan, 08:24:50 05/23/05 Mon
        'Mommy, can I touch it?' 'Better not, son. The dullness rubs off.' (Benjamin Franklin Pierce, M*A*S*H* -- Nerilki(Avianyth), 18:25:15 05/23/05 Mon
        Hehehe. -- Tathan, 02:09:32 05/24/05 Tue
        'Nonsense, that's just an ugly rumor started by someone who heard me say I didn't like you.' -- Nerilki(Avianyth), 18:11:21 05/24/05 Tue
        *Grin* -- Tathan, 10:19:58 05/25/05 Wed
        'He's dead, dead and drafted.' -- Nerilki(Avianyth), 17:08:57 05/26/05 Thu