Befriending Imagination -- The Hatching Grounds

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Date Posted: 22:22:50 11/27/01 Tue
Author: Yriu & Jumi
Subject: Befriending Imagination

The short compact young woman of twenty three turns strides across the sands, pads of her feet oblivious to the heat. She had walked many a road barefoot, this had no difference to it. She casts her no-nonsense gaze at the eggs, her own hard shell of being softened at the sight of them.

Usually only the beautiful people come here and Impress.The exceptionally pretty ones become Weyrwomen, everyone knows these to be universal facts. I came here to prove that nasty mess wrong, at least the Impression part. Weyrwoman might be better left as a half dream. A herder's child with a shearing blade as a trimming device can go far! Maybe one of them eggs holds my lifemate. Perhaps I might finally know what they want me to DO with the life they've given me. Jev'ess and all of them always knew, but I didn't. Not until now. A green, perhaps, like my poor brother? Rydenk was a nice enough one, and they were so...together. If it is ever like that... She shudders at the thought of a mental blending, eyes roving hungrily across the clutch, as though to pick out the egg for her. Her smile forms quickly as the sands brush the inglorious chopped black hair from her face. Suddenly, a hailing cry brings her from her reviere.

"Yriu! Cousin! Wait for me!" The gasps and winces of Jumi meet her ears as the younger woman leaps quickly and gracefully across the sands to join her.Yriu sighs sadly, even when in pain Jumi looked elegant. It took her hours to achieve any sort of social acceptability. " I decided against Dolphin Hall. I want to Impress, to know the Air!" Jumi continues, violet eyes sparking quietly at her own dreams.

"Then, cousin, we stay to Impress." She catches Jumi gazing reverently at the golden Egg and sighs heavily. That was the trouble, Jumi got her hopes up so high, her dreams could climb the wind. "Look at them all, aren't they wonderful?" Yriu says gently, tugging on her cousin's arm. They stride gently away, to give the Eggs room. Suddenly, Jumi snatches from Yriu's hold and races to the Egg.

She touches the warm shell gently, pretending not to hear her cousin's calls. She had to see this Egg, knew it was special. Everyone kept coming to it. But her eyes flick curiously to the other eggs, and she touches those nearby as well, smiling to herself. Yriu might do well to sit and wait her turn, but sometimes waiting meant missing out. And watching the eggs was definitely something of an experience, they were all so different. A smooth tendril of pale blond hair sweeps forward, and Jumi pushes it away impatiently. Dismayed, she watches the other young girls circling the Egg hungrily, like the coyotes who watched for a ripe chicken. A strange flush of jealousy wells in her, but she shoves it down and steps away at last, kissing her forefinger and placing it at the edge of the nest.

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