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You walk inside a weyr that looks occupied, but when you call "hello" no one answers. You explore the small weyr made up of 4 connecting caves and end up in a cave meant for a dragon which opens to a ledge and a view of the lake below. Suddenly your view is blocked by a small green dragon and her rider. After the green dismonts and lands, her rider slaps her goodnaturedly and the dragons takes off again as her rider walks towards you. She has somewhat disorderly brown hair and the look of someone underfed.
Hi, "I'm Trena, from Kelt Hold, near Fort. Recoth is going to the other side of the valley to go sun herself before it sets. Would you like something to eat?" You nod.
Trena leads you to the front room, and you sit at the table there as she gets out the food and klah, refusing your offer to help. On the table she puts a loaf of bread, a platter with a few small slices of roasted meat and 2 mugs of klah. You both start eating.
"How old are you?"
Trena seems surprised, as if she had forgotten you were there, "Me? I'm 16."
"Where is Recoth from?"
Just then, a tan tunnelsnake leaps on to the table and starts eating off of the platter. The vermin seems totally oblivious to the fact that two humans are less than 5 feet from it.
You jump up in surprise, knocking your chair down and then tripping over it in your haste to put more distance between you and the ferocious creature.
As you struggle to get back up, you here Trena laughing at you and, glancing up at the table you just slammed your head against, you see her stroking the tunnelsnake's head, who had finished eating and was now wrapped around Trena's neck. The creature making a sound that sounds suspiciously like that of human laughter.
Sssaaa
I guess I should've warned you. I keep forgetting how frightening tunnelsnakes are to most people. I found Sssaaa here when I was 12 after..." she pauses, looking very sad, and continues in a whisper, "after my mother died. There was a sickness in our hold, and before we could send for a healer she had died. My father never paid much attention to me, or my siblings, and after he remarried his wife, Genire, treated us like drudges, even my oldest brother who was to inherit the hold from my father. We learned to stay out of her way most of the time."
She seems as depressed as you by her story, and she tries to lighten the mood by switching the subject.
"When I first saw Sssaaa, I tried to lure him closer with some scraps of meat. I had always been afraid of tunnelsnakes, but I was angry at Genire and I wanted to scare her by putting one on her plate at dinner. I kept trying and trying to get him to come closer and by the time he would yet me touch him, I couldn't bear to let Genire see him, cause she would have had him killed. Even if I hadn't Impressed, I'd never go back to Kelt Hold, never."
Who's Who in Trena's weyr?
| Name: | Species: | Color: | From: |
| Sssaaa | Tunnelsnake | Tan | Lily Valley Weyr |
| Recoth | Pern Dragon | Green | Darllion Weyrhold |
Recoth as a weyrling
Recoth as a dragonet
Recoth as a hatchling
(the background also came from
here)
I didn't draw the picture of Trena, I scanned it from a coloring book and colored it in on my computer.