It was a good hour before the door opened and Cremsden slipped inside. The aroma of strong klah filled the office as he set it on the desk, apparently not even noticing his visitor in the corner. For

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He watched her thoughts play out across her face, her eyes opening wide as his words affected her. He hadn't known how they would have affected her, but he'd meant them. He wondered briefly at the

She was tired. Bone achingly tired. But it was a good tired. The tired of a productive day and it felt... beyond amazing. She had spent the day shadowing a Healer in the Infirmary - nothing difficult,

"Well, nice to have an old friend," T'lack said with a nod. "Hopefully that will make your transition easier."

"High Reaches Weyr, though the territory is home in general for me. I grew up in the Hold. She and I met after we'd both already Impressed. She'd transferred in from elsewhere. We became friends

The genuineness of his words struck her. And she hadn't realised just how much she had needed to hear it. Not to suspect it or to hope it, but to actually hear it. Surprise filled her features,

Kassia raised a glass to him as he entered. "Come. Talk with me about 'youth these days'." Her mood was pleasant enough for the moment, but that didn't necessarily mean much. Brogan came sniffing over

"Nah, it's not worth upsetting the applecart," Kass said with a wave her hand. Or rather, R'tal was happy and she liked to keep R'tal happy. When it was convenient for her. "So she's working out well

"Where is back home again?" "Tlack asked, not knowing much of Tyne's history past her Impressing and then losing her lifemate.

"Yeah, I don't know exactly where they got them from." She shrugged. That was the solid truth. She'd been given an approximation and who knew where they'd been running with everything else going on at

Well, she wasn't expecting random body parts. Common sense dictated that it was likely some poor animal that had gotten trapped in this monstrosity of a mess. As she pulled the sacking to one side,

Well, she hadn't been thrown out - yet. That had to be a good sign. Sheepishly, she pulled out another stack of several papers. These were neater, more formal looking. "I... had pondered the

"I'm glad you didn't. Because I wasn't horrid... just different." More acutely aware of the politics, more determined that she would never be the talk of scandalous whispers and as far as she had been

"I don't expect to. I am happy to be demoted back to the rank of Apprentice and be considered as new to the craft." Dytha's solemn face emphasised that she had had this thought herself. "However, I

Idri was intrigued. Suspicious and intrigued. But mostly suspicious. It wasn't that she thought that Cremsden would cause Tyne any harm, far from it. She trusted the man with Tyne implicitly. Pouring

B'lin never hesitated to come to such a summons, always as smart and hasty as you would expect for *any* Weyrwoman summons, even one he'd known since childhood. "What's the occasion?" he greeted her,

M'ayen squinted at him and gave a half-shrug. The face didn't seem familiar and nor did the voice, though he'd been wrong about that before. Graduated Weyrlings could change so much in a turn or so,

"What?" Cremsden's eyebrows rose disbelievingly and he peeped at his son's face before shaking his head. "Well, you've clearly got a way with him. You sure you don't want to switch to the human

"Good man!" There was no sign of recognition from R'tal, though he clapped L'eo on the shoulder approvingly. "That would have been a tough move for an experienced pair, and the pair of you pulled it