THE HATCHING
There were Seven of them. Seven Candidates for
4 Eggs. They all knew some wouldn't impress. Eliany and Enyda hadn't been
there from the start like for example Lokren. The boy was determined to
impress a dragon, but none had so much as glanced at him yet. Then there
were also Kelei and two dragons, looking to impress a mate.
Eliany looked around and set her eyes on the big egg. They had told her big
eggs often contained bigger dragons, but the parents were a green and a
blue, almost the smallest around. She couldn't make sense out of it and just
decided to have fun and enjoy the situation. Unlike her sister. Enyda looked
pale. She was very nervous, and no books or words around to hide after. She
couldn't speak and she certainly couldn't run off to calm down. Enyda also
looked at the big egg. Not because the size intrigued her, but because it
was rocking more violently then the others.
A crack appeared in the middle.
Enyda and Eliany watched in awe as two baby emerald greens fell out of the
egg. The twin dragonets shook their heads and got up, perfectly timed. Like
a ballet. Then they looked closely at Enyda and Eliany and started running.
With a sudden surge of knowing Enyda knew they were coming towards them,
while Eliany just looked at the beauty and grace of their movements.
The pair came to a full stop in front of them.
"I am Dylith" the left one said.
"And I'm Pylith." the right one added.
Eliany and Enyda looked at each other, uncertain of what to do next. Both
dragons answered:
"Tell them."
"This one is Pylith" Eliany said, pointing to the dragonet in front of her.
"Dylith is her name." Enyda softly added, busy with stroking the
magnificent
creature, and no doubt examining it's physical properties already. Eliany
shook her head and pulled her sister off the hatching sands.
ELIANY's GREEN PYLITH
ENYDA's GREEN DYLITH
WEYRLINGS
"We totally left that brown behind!" Eliany shouted excited,
"We're the best racing team ever!"
"I know." Pylith said,
"I'm very fast."
Eliany giggled. "I know you are, now let's win this race!"
2 dragons later and in second position Eliany braced herself.
"Faster Pylith!" Eliany told her dragon. "We can beat that blue and
come in first if we get it right!"
"ok, I'm passing him from the left."
Pylith replied.
They were halfway passed the blue when Enliany realised something was wrong.
Pylith felt her rider's confusion and looked back, trying to find what was
bothering her. She couldn't find a thing and looked forward again. She
barely avoided the collision with the mountain peaks by making a U-turn.
Unfortunately, that was when Eliany's riding straps broke from her sudden
fall sideways.
When she was falling, she thought only one thing: "Why had she forgotten to
check them?"
Then she hit the ground, her fall broken by the grass. She lost
consciousness.
PYLITH
DYLITH
"Eliany!" Enyda yelled loud
enough to wake every dragon at Ryslen. They had been there half a year know
and their dragons had grown to weyrling status.
Enyda and Dylith had been on message duty when she had heard about the fall.
She had rushed back to Ryslen and hoped nothing serious had happened to
Eliany. They had contacted Pylith, but the green couldn't tell them anything
besides Eliany was still alive. The dragon sounded concerned. Enyda had
pondered on the way back about how it was possible she heard her sister's
dragon and vice versa while others couldn't. More negative than she was used
to be, she wondered what would happen to Pylith if Eliany died. Would she
and Dylith be enough to stay behind of would she follow Eliany in dead?
Suddenly she stopped thinking. It was bad luck to think like this. Eliany
would pull through and they'd have many years of joy, love and friendship
left. Enyda wanted them to one day look back on their lives, 2 old grey
ladies, while about 20 grandchildren were crawling around them.
"Enyda! She's in here. The doctor says she'll be fine after a week or
two."
Both dragons and Enyda sighed their relief at those words. Thankfully Enyda
looked up at the woman who led her in the room. She had to remember her face
to thank her later.
ADULTS
"Enyda! I'm going out!" Eliany yelled.
"Ok, Be carefull and be home before midnight!!!" she shouted back.
"I will!"
It was Eliany's birthday and they had planned a small party. Only Enyda, the
dragons and a few friends were envited. They'd have a big fire on the beach
and roast some wherry and fruits above it. Eliany's favourite food had
always been barbeque. Enyda had even attempted to make a sauce that tasted a
lot like Tabasco.
"Pylith...who is she meeting?" Enyda asked.
"Don't know." Pylith answered.
"Dragons! They know all they aren't supposed to know and nothing of what
we want to know...Can you at least tell me if it is a boy?"
"It's not a boy."
"darn! I was so sure!"
Eliany let her feet dangle in the water and
watched the stars. It had been over a year that they'd lived here. She
hardly ever thought about home anymore. Home was here, at Ryslen. But still,
on some nights she could still feel it...
"Aren't you happy to be here?" the duo
voices of Dylith and Pylith sounded in her mind.
"Of course I am, but it was my home..."
"Enyda never sees it that way." Dylith
said.
"She doesn't? I was certain she'd be the one to get homesick."
"Not with all the new she still sees every day."
"I guess."
She sighed and pulled her feet out of the water.
"Let's get to that barbeque before the roast gets cold."
Pylith
Dylith