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 Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:26 pm
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"Please," Yunara said, a little dismayed by just how much dragonet there was to oil. Not that she wasn't delighted to pamper her baby, who simply demanded the utmost care, but... Ardxoshoth was growing quite quickly, and she'd started out at nearly ten feet in length! "She's going to be big," the girl remarked, quietly envying Kinye a little, whose green was already nicely oiled. Yunara had been at it for awhile now, and it seemed that her queen was no closer to being finished now than she had been at the start. That was probably an illusion, though.
You wouldn't want Metisoth instead, Ardoxshoth said with a certain possessive note in her voice. She is of course a perfectly fine green, but she is not Me. Which was, in Ardoxshoth's opinion, reason enough that her rider should want to oil her more than her sister. The little queen had not stayed perfectly still, as keen as she was to admire the progress Yunara had been making.
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Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:34 pm
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Right now it surely was the easiest that it would ever be to bathe and oil Ardoxshoth. It was hard to think that way when the little queen was so many times larger than her firelizards, but... Ardoxshoth was going to be big. Not big for a queen, maybe, for the queen certainly was not large on that scale. Actually, the gold was dainty compared to many of her contemporaries, though exactly the size of her sister. Of her bronze brothers, only Mihrath was smaller. Nevertheless, she was big when compared with her chromatic siblings. "Hmmm... no, I don't think so. I seem to recall that Anakumath was a little larger than she is when at the same age."
Strangely, she did remember how small Anakumath had once been. Wasn't that astounding? Why shouldn't you remember? She is my mother, after all. If the little queen was a trifle smug that her rider recollected such a thing, then so be it. However, she was well able to track what Metisoth was saying as well. Everyone is in my coterie, Metisoth. Even if they don't know it yet. So she had decided, and so it would be. With her rider scrubbing away, she was content to lounge and enjoy her sister's company.
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2021 4:14 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:04 pm
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It was hard to imagine Ardoxshoth growing larger than she already was. As it was she was already larger than all of her siblings except for Hybreoth, Lareseth, and Damahath. Yunara, after all, had never cared for anything larger than a gold flit before the dragonet. Although she was certainly putting some elbow grease into oiling the baby, Yunara suspected that this task, already hard, would soon prove to be much more difficult.
"They're big enough as it is. I can only imagine." No matter how large or small they grew to be, Yunara would undoubtedly still be awed by it. There were a lot of dragons in the Weyr, and the sight of them was amazing. It was... a daily wonder. The young woman had gone from a world largely without dragons to one chock full of them. It was... different. Unexpected.
Metisoth's response was, at least, a little mollifying to the queen. She had not cared for the direction the green's thoughts had been tending, but it was gratifying that at least Metisoth was not a hypocrite. Nor did it seem she was afraid. Maybe someday I'll rotate it. But not today. Today, she wanted to enjoy having everyone in her coterie present, so that she might see them and admire them at once. Even those that didn't seem to realize that they occupied such an august position.
Maybe I'll show it to you. For now, though, the queen intended to keep it largely to herself. And why should she not? All the better to admire and enjoy it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:50 pm
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There would come a day when Kinye would look back and struggle to picture any of the Weyrlings in their class being as small as they currently were. Whether that struggle would be as hard as trying to imagine the future....
"It's funny how you get an idea in your head of how big something is, even if you've seen it a few times up close, and then it surprises you all over again," Kinye had seen her share of baby dragons up close even before her first hatching, but she was still surprised how big a 'small' thing could be. Maybe she'd remember it better after so much time set to scrubbing and oiling hide on a day to day basis.
It occurs to me that it is better to do so while we all fit together without much crowding, Metisoth had not considered that to be the potential wisdom behind her sister's decision and certainly, it could have been any other reason, but the practicality of the idea appealed greatly to her. That, and the fact they were all meant to be bonding and socializing as they'd been instructed anyways.
So, she was appeased enough to have no desire to pry or coax further when Ardoshoth covered up her inquiry with a 'maybe'.
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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:29 pm
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"We also went from firelizards to dragons," Yunara said, brushing away to try to get the oil in some hard to reach places. "But it's... well, it's night and day, isn't it? Firelizards are so easy to oil. I've three, and while they can be demanding little creatures, they don't take much time at all to oil. Not compared to this." The girl could only imagine how it would be once Ardoxshoth grew a little more... let alone at full size. If she was anywhere close to Anakumath's size, that would be... something else. Admittedly, something that queenriders went through on a regular basis. No doubt in time it would become second nature to bathe and oil their dragons.
Yes, that is true. Right now we will all fit quite nicely together, the queen remarked, eyes whirling with blues and greens. Yes, she did like the idea of them all fitting neatly together in one space. Already, the small hoard of ribbons and trinkets had been organized into a box, even though that process had not been done by her. But Ardoxshoth certainly appreciated it, nonetheless. We should get a painting done.
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:58 am
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"It was still hard to oil mine at first, so maybe it'll feel much the same as more time passes," like Yunara, Kinye didn't find firelizards to be too difficult to bathe and oil. Simply by comparison of the two sisters so close to each other, Kinye could appreciate that while Metisoth wasn't a difficult dragon to bathe and oil she was also only a little over half the size of her sister. "I'm sure once we get into the flow of doing it every day we'll be masters at making quicker work of it."
A painting sounded a touch less practical to Metisoth than having all of their siblings nicely organized together in the same room. Mine draws, but I do not know if she has ever painted, she looked towards Kinye, who was very set to helping Yunara with Ardoxshoth in silent question, causing her to look up. "No, I've never painted - paints are expensive and it requires someone to not move for long periods of time," she answered out loud - mostly because she still wasn't entirely in the habit of the thought-out exchanges with her dragon.
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