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Date Posted: 16:35:02 10/23/01 Tue
Author: Rexana and the Lizards (Aidan and Eetu)
Subject: ~*~

*Rexana stepped onto the stands, squinting in to the sun. She brushed a few stray threads of coppery hair out of her eyes and scanned the sands. Her eyes fell onto the unhatched eggs they were beautiful. It seemed to her that everytime she came to a hatching the eggs just got prettier and prettier. Of, course this time it could just be the fact that she's a candidate. She grinned at the thought. She thought back to the first hatching she had ever seen. It had been a happy memory for her, almost.*

~*~*~ Flashback ((Cue the sentimental music))~*~*~

A dirty young woman came trudging out of the caverns screaming in fury. "Rexana! Rexana! Where have you been?!?" She marched straight upto an even dirtier little girl.
"I'm sorry mother, It took me longer than I expected" She bowed her head.
"Well? Where are those loaves I asked you for?"
"I, I dropped them" "
You dropped the entire basket of bread! Why you little wherry-" The woman had raised her hand to strike before the girl could explain and moved to strike her, when a rider held the womans arm in place.
"Why now, you wouldn't be planning to hit this little girl, would you Miss?" She jerked away.
"Leave us be, she's my daughter I can do anything I please with her!"
"If you try to hit that girl you'll be in an awful lot of trouble with Weyrleader."
She stepped back "But, that clumsy thing just dropped an entire basket of fresh bread."
The rider look down at the girl. "Weren't you going to tell her the truth Rex?"
The little girl raised her head at being addressed. "Well, I didn't really drop it, see some of the kids were..."
"They were teasing you again?" The anger immediately left the woman's face and she bent to hold her daughter close.
"Yes. I was walking past with the basket and the started saying those terrible things again and then..." She broke off and started to cry. Her mother had comforted her for a long while before sending her on her way. It was just like her mother to being simpathetic one moment and all business the next. As Rexana was walking back towards the kitche, basket in hand she heard noises from the sands. There had been a clutch then and she hurried to make sure that nothing was going wrong. As Soon as she stepped out she shielded her eyes to find herself staring into a sea of people with their eyes glued to the eggs. SHe remembered crawling under all those people to where she could finally see what was happening. She stared in awe at the hatching eggs and stayed for hours, until last dragon had popped out of its shell.
~*~*~End Flash back~*~*~

Of course she had gotten quite a beating for going to watch, but in her opinion it had been well worth it. Because now she was standing here. Hoping to impress one of the great treasures of the sky. *She smoothed her impression robes and grinned at the two firelizards winging at her side trying to fan some of the heat away from her.* Ican always count on you two, can't I? *they chirped in reply and continued their efforts. she plucked out a few strips of meat for both of them and they snatched them up hungrily.* Give them a little to eat once in a while and those to will love you forever *She said softly and chuckled to herself. Thhis was going to be a much happier hatching, she hoped*

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