Eyes agog with wonder, she spots the rider and her grown dragon... -- The Hatching Grounds

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Date Posted: 08:39:36 12/07/01 Fri
Author: Unu
Subject: Eyes agog with wonder, she spots the rider and her grown dragon...
In reply to: Inum�~Shenth 's message, "~*~" on 23:42:27 12/06/01 Thu

From her place beside the nest she crouched and tilted her head so as to hide her marking green eyes. Between the yards of scraggly hair she watches the Rider from this position. Was this what grown dragons looked like? How wondrous, that they came to watch the hatching, how amazing a sight they were with their riders.

Some pairs were looking for someone, she knew. They were scanning the Hatching grounds for one Candidate or another. Her? No, she reminds herself firmly, my alies are buried with the mouldering remains of the past. They wouldn't be looking for me unless they needed a beast destroyed. That thought is pushed away as suddenly as it swims into her ken of thought. She was free of discrimination, free to be chosen. No one knew her here, and she could start anew in everything. She had but to wait. As if to emphasize this to herself she stands up striaght and proud, not allowing her somewhat slouch to affect her bearing. She could stand up just as tal as the other girls without any fear or shame.

There wasn't a pair here to support her, but at least there wasn't one here to haul her away for menial labor. And maybe it would turn out for the best, these riders looked so magnificent and proud, could she ever be one of them? As if blinking, she finds herself at the rim of the nest, eager and perched to watch the next egg. If she could find one like the big dragons, if she could share her mind with one willing to accept the bad and envelop the good of her mind, then she was ready. Her breath draws sharply in the air and she nods readily. Not afraid, not ashamed, she was Unu, and she would run from herself no longer.

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