A calm place to think

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa sat in the girls side of the barracks, a staggered sigh came out, she know she was still not her full self after her hair raising ordeal, but she was getting better.
She folded her stiff to put away in the chest at the bottom of her bed, getting up she walked over to the chest putting the stuff away.
The chest was full of new things or nearly new, the weyr had been very kind supplying her with some riding gear, saying she would be a dab hand at it to, though she remembered every little of the 3 of the 4 rides she had been on the first being to relived to be rescued from thread to notice, the second she remembered quite well and from what she remembered she liked till it came to landing, but the 3rd she had been to beside herself to even realise what was going on. Though some hold girls had said being swept off their feet by E’lric or any bronze rider was something all of them whished would happen to them and the 4th she had still been recovering from making herself so sick and ill with worrying.
But now things were looking up she had new shirts and skirt also a few pairs of trousers, finding a lot of girls and women in the weyr ware trousers, though she would wear her skirts for now and what made Tifa feel very happy and pleased she had a new and this was not new made for someone and never had on.
This was new new special fitted for her gather dress, she had only ever had ones off her sisters and they were patched and taken in, but this one was hers.
She wanted to write her sisters and parents to tell them about how well she was doing and not at the wher hold, she took in a staggered breath at thinking of that place, she would not tell her parents she had failed to get the watch wher, but she didn’t think they would care, they had a daughter at the weyr and that was much better.

[BLAZE]

T’vin ran in to the candidate barracks looking around, trying to remember which side was the boys side and which the girls.
He stuck his head though in of the dorm doors seeing Tifa, well that told him that was the girl’s side, so the other must be the boy’s side.
He ran over to the boys side which was a bit more messy in places, he looked at the cots and chests, now which was Talexs stuff he had not said, T’vin realised he should have asked Talex down at the dock.
T’vin had a ruff idea that when he saw the stuff he would know Talexs gear.

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa heard the clattering of feet and then looked up when a young boy stuck his head round the door and quickly disappeared.
Tifa was a bit puzzled at the boys appearance and then his equally quick disappearance, she know there were a few boys in the barracks and a few more girl, but Tifa had not felt very sociable the last few days and she chastised her self for allowing her self to fall into such a pit of self-pity that she had been anti social.
She got up to go see what this boy was doing also it gave her someone to talk to rather than sitting here on her own.
Tifa know she had to try and make friends sooner or later.

She headed out just seeing the boy dart into the boy side; Tifa followed putting her head round to look into the boys side “Hello…” she saw he was looking for someone or something.
“Can i help you?” She asked

[BLAZE]

T’vin spun round hearing someone talk to him “Oh hello…em I’m looking for something…em for a friend…but i cant remember which cot is his” T’vin said trying to think of how to make i look like he was not up to something and to get out quickly from the barracks before K’ttak or his mum turned up and asked him what he was doing.
He realised he had not seen the girl before… “So who are you?” oh hang on he remembered hearing his mum say something about a new girl candidate.

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“Oh right…” Tifa said looking at the boy trying to find his friends things.
“I’m Tifa… do you want a hand…sorry what’s your name” She asked after T’vin had asked her, her name.
She could not remember seeing the boy around the barracks, unless he was new himself.

((Sorry it is short))

[BLAZE]

T’vin was starting to move and look close at things there were not many boys in the weyr for candidates so it should not be to hard.
“Oh I’m T’vin brown rider of Bahamuth” He said still looking.
Hadn’t Talex say something about him having his brothers old riding jacket once, he was sure he had.
Not many candidates would have riding jackets, find the jacket and find Talexs stuff.

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa looked at T’vin like he may have just grown an extra head or spouted fire from his mouth.
“You’re a rider?” Tifa asked knowing that it was a big thing to lie about if he wasn’t.
“Your so little….sorry i mean young…i did not think they let candidates stand till they were 16 turns… with threads falling and all” Tifa said realising her first lot of words had come out wrong and she didn’t want to upset T’vin since really he was the first person she had talked to since coming to the weyr, other than the head women and some of the workers, the odd rider had said hello to her but she didn’t know names.

[BLAZE]

T’vin turned looking at Tifa when she reacted to him being a rider. He was a bit annoyed when she said he was little…he was 12 and he wasn’t that little he was just over the 5ft and he was due a growth stint soon and he hoped to be as tall as his uncles, who all near the 6ft or over.
But he could see the girl was confused and quickly corrected herself, what had he been told about those who were not from the weyr they assumed stuff with out finding out first.
“Not really, you can stand at 12 but not be allowed in a fighting wing till your 16th turn…but it changes from weyr to weyr here it’s normally 16 or over, i was allowed to impress due to extenuating circumstance. As my mum is posted here and she did not want me impressing somewhere else” T’vin said telling Tifa all this he would not mention it was because Timov did not want his father coming and dragging him back to Cliff Valley to impress.

[dragonriderfire]

“Oh right” Tifa said looking down at the floor she could see T’vin was annoyed at her for calling him little. Well he was little in any point, but still it may not be nice to be called little all the time.
“So your not from East Cliff...i didn’t think you sounded like a local” Tifa said starting to help T’vin look or mainly tidy things up after him as he looked.
“So where are you from?” Tifa thought to ask

[BLAZE]

T’vin looked around, he would kill Talex when he found his things. Next time Talex could go do the looking for the things.
“Em…Cliff Valley right the way over in the West i grew up in the Hold and Weyr… and what do you mean not local, you don’t sound local your self” T’vin said picking up on Tifas accent though it did sound a but like a Bendan but with a East Cliff and Bitra.
“Where are you form?” he asked thinking he was getting close as none had riding jackets

[dragonriderfire]

“Wow that’s a long way” Tifa said she had only been as far as Benden on a gather day.
“oh from a small farm hold between Bended and Bitra but on the Benden side of the border” Tifa said thinking how long it had took her to walk from her home till E’lric had found her.

[BLAZE]

“So you’re like a local...So why didn’t they take you to Benden weyr, they have a hatching soon, or to Top Point it’s their hatching today, you might have got the queen egg” T’vin said knowing that East Cliff liked to try and get the candidates use to being around the dragons before the actual hatching.
“There is bets going on that Quinith might not have as gold egg as Talia and H’ton are starting to talk to each other again...Oh you didn’t hear me tell you that or K’ttak will have me cleaning the latrines for a month” T’vin said realising what he had said

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa made a fuss over putting some furs strait when T’vin asked why she had not gone to Benden or Top Point… how did you tell someone you had wanted to try for a Watch Wher and had walked for 5 day and nearly got scored by threads and then getting there and finding the Wher master a unbearable person and then on getting rescued had mad your self ill with worry. Tifa felt ashamed of herself.
Tifa did not realise tears were rolling down her cheek

[BLAZE]

T’vin turned looking at Tifa when she didn’t reply and he saw she looked upset…maybe he had asked the wrong question or upset her about there may not be a queen egg.
But then he saw the tears rolling down her cheek.
“Oh I’m sorry i didn’t mean to up set up” he said walking over to her, pulling out a clean handkerchief something his grandmother had made him carry and handed it to Tifa.

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa tried to stop crying “I’m sorry you must think me a silly girl” She said taking the offer handkerchief.
“but you see i didn’t got to Benden or Top Point because…because i went… to the Watch Wher Hold” Tifa said through sobs feeling so stupid about crying like this T’vin must think her a real dead glow

[BLAZE]

T’vin felt bad “No…i shouldn’t have said there would be no gold i don’t know how a flight will turn out and Talia and H’ton could be annoyed at each other before the day is even out” T’vin said trying to apologise to Tifa.

He looked at Tifa as she told his where she had gone first “Wow…how did you ever end up there?” T’vin asked knowing that now many riders took people there as the watch wher’s were scared stiff of the dragon and it would be a very long walk and threads where falling at least once every 10-14 days

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa sniffed back some tears “5 days of walking and then nearly getting scored by threads, but a rider saw me and took me to East Cliff hold and then took me from the hold to the Wher hold” Tifa said trying to get herself under control, she didn’t want T’vin to go run off and get an adult she had had enough of being fussed over

[BLAZE]

T’vin was considering that he should go find his mum and let her try and calm Tifa down, thought she looked like she was calming down a bit.
“Five days walking...wow” T’vin said remembering just a bit what it was like to have to walk to places you wanted to go, before he had impressed Behamuth.
He then wondered which rider had seen Tifa thread fall as the weyr had been gearing up for the fall at the time and no one had been missing from formation the last 2 falls.
“So how long were you at there at the wher hold, i want long” T’vin said knowing it may upset Tifa asking her that. “Bet if felt like it was too long” Mind he would like to meet the dead glow who had took her to the Wher Hold, if someone had the guts to was 5 days on their own and risk a thread fall then they should be at the weyr trying to impress a dragon and not a light fearing watch wher

[dragonriderfire]

Tifa laughed a bit as T’vin was impressed at how far she had walked.
“Em i spent about two at East Cliff Hold and then the rider took me to the wher hold and i stayed there for about nearly 2 seven day then about another week back at East Cliff before coming here” Tifa said she made sure not to mention E’lric remembering what the Lord and Lady had told her about how the weyrleader did not like him. Tifa could not think why he seamed a very good man the ideal dragon rider, the ones girls dreamed about.
Tifa know E’lric rescuing her had put him in her dreams of late always recuing her. Though she would never tell anyone.

[BLAZE]

T’vin listened to what Tifa told him, he was happy he had made her laugh a bit, his grandmother always said laughter was the best cure for feeling down.
“Wow you have been about the place haven’t you...i mean walking all that way and then going to East Cliff and then to the wher hold and then back to East Cliff and now here, you’ve done more travelling than i do on Behamuth in a lesson” T’vin said impressed though he still wondered which rider had took her to the wher hold.
“Do you know that the lady and lord holder are weyrwomen Talia’s parents?” He said thinking that she might know that.
“You don’t happen to remember the name of the rider who took you to the hold do you and rescued you?... just i think he made a big mistake taking you there any way...you belong here in the weyr with use” he said