Playing in the sand (open)

[Kisha-Ra]

‘What are you doing Tuinth?’ Idara asked, looking curiously at her dragon, the gold dragon was lying on her side, flailing about happily in the sand, a glittering mountain of champagne and antique gold against the paler matt sand of the beach.

I’m a hatchling again! The young gold replied, lifting her head from the sand and eyeing her chosen. Tuinth tended to keep her dignity within the Weyr but she seemed to be convinced no one but her rider could see her out here and she did like to play. She liked hatchlings too, maybe hers would let Tuinth get a little canine or feline soon. They were very nice, but Idara always said that since she would be the one who had to feed, exercise, and clean up after a pet Tuinth couldn’t have one. The gold had tried to argue the point numerous times but to no avail. And hers totally refused to have a hatchling of her own, it just wasn’t fair!

Tuinth thumped her tail against the sand a couple of times, as if that would make an expression other than bemused amusement appear on her rider’s face and sighed heavily, dropping her head and tail back into the sand and wriggling around some more.

Idara shook her head and turned away from her dragon, it was sometimes hard to believe that was a mature queen and the first love of Idara’s life flopping around in the sand. The girl folded gracefully down onto the sand and stared out at the waves. She was much more noticble than her dragon, at least from a distance, since she was dressed in a bright sapphire shirt and black trousers that made her skin look pale and dead. Idara never did have any sense when it came to choosing colours, she liked bright.

[shadowreine]

Above the beach, a small dragon banked, circled and then started to descend. From her small size and distinctive patternings, Reinth was identifiable at quite some difference.

Only one person, her rider, sat between her rather small neckridges. Purth was marginally smaller, but only marginally, and Lesoroth, Reinth's son, about the same size.

The three of them were marked and known as the smallest dragons at Allride, the smallest on Pern. Quite a contrast, of course, with the pale colored gold below. And rather than land, Reinth angled her course to buzz gold and rider.

"Reinth!" came Tirlynna's voice, indicating that she had most certainly not *asked* her dragon to do that!

Dragons. Some days.

[Lysita]

Weyrlings weren't allowed to leave the Weyr without permission, but K'rian and Lesoroth had graduated and were going to make the most of it. Rather then having a big feast to mark his graduation, the weyrwoman, weyrleader and weyrling master had called him to the weyrling master's office to give him his full rider knots. Which fitted as he had been the only one graduating at the time and didn't really want a big fuss made.

Now K'rian was sitted much like Tirlynna and was enjoying the thrill of flying with the ocean spray in his face. Then he spotted a familiar dragon in the distance and leaned closer to lesoroth's neck. Les, do you recognise that dragon? He asked, knowing that the rainbow either would or wouldn't.

Lesoroth put on a burst of speed, eliciting a whoop of joy form K'rian as the air whipped around him. The rainbow's reaction to the question gave K'rian the answer he wanted to know. The male rainbow recognised the female rainbow from the meeting several months back.

"Tirlynna!" K'rian called to his fellow rainbowrider as Lesoroth pulled in beside Reinth before zipping under and back up on the female rainbow's other side. K'rian laughed at Lesoroth's antics, enjoying the aerobatics of his dragon.

[Kisha-Ra]

A dragon shaped shadow drifted over the sand, but Idara paid it no attention, dragon shadows were practically two a quarter mark around here, which wasn’t too surprising what with all the dragons.

Tuinth, who was paying rather more attention than her rider, rolled over onto her back and looked up. Her eyes whirled a bright mixture of greens and blues as she recognised the rainbow, she liked Reinth, although, to be totally honest, Tuinth liked everyone. The gold righted herself, got to her feet, and dropped into a crouch again as Reinth came overhead low enough to startle her.

However rather than be annoyed over the loss of her dignity, which would be silly when she’d been wriggling around in the sand, Tuinth rumbled with mirth at the trick and watched as Reinth went zipping past Idara. The fact that a second rainbow came up and darted around Reinth as soon as there was space only made the young gold rumble more loudly.

Idara looked around to see what Tuinth found so very amusing just in time to see a blur of colours whip by overhead as Reinth went by. Idara waved, not that she thought Tirlynna would see, and grinned at the objection she could hear. By the time Lesoroth caught up and looped around his mother she was giggling as much as Tuinth.

[shadowreine]

Tirlynna laughed out loud as Lesoroth showed up and joined in. The advantage of having such small dragons!

"We should go down and say hi to Idara and Tuinth!" Tirlynna called out loud, but the wind took her words.

Reinth relayed them, rumbling her own amusement in a much higher pitch than the gold, before circling tightly and starting to descend to a landing. Whether Lesoroth was coming or not, she was going to chat with the young queen.

Tirlynna was still laughing. "No wonder I have to repair my flying straps so often, Reinth!"

At least there was not that much leather in them...but she did, indeed, have to repair and replace them more often than many riders. Reinth's antics put so much stress on them, but now she was switching modes, affecting a gold's dignity.

Of course, she could clutch, although she had not flown again since. Tirlynna had come to the logical conclusion that rainbows simply did not fly that often. Or, perhaps, with the number of queens here, she was not bothering. Her contribution to the young dragons was insignificant, after all.