Logs:Aftermath - Risk-taker
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| RL Date: 25 January, 2013 |
| Who: Jo |
| Involves: High Reaches Weyr |
| Type: Vignette |
| What: Both queens go up while the convict riders are predictably away. Taikrin's possible promotion has Jo looking to their futures. |
| Where: Somewhere outside the Reaches |
| When: Day 18, Month 11, Turn 30 (Interval 10) |
| Mentions: Barnabas/Mentions, H'kon/Mentions, Taikrin/Mentions, Vienne/Mentions, Z'ian/Mentions |
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| While the flight of one of the Reachian queens drew a lustful wave through its Weyr... Jo was absent. It was nothing new, considering the fact that she's still relatively gone from the Weyr when she can be - even if these days, there's been certain distractions that might keep her lingering a just a bit longer than usual in its environment. She made it back to her weyr in the wee hours of the morning, all cased in black leather and so out of it that any lustful desires that should linger from the queen's flight had to duel it out with her fatigue. Transporting 'goods' for the Greenfields gang with her fellow convict riders all day had taken everything out of her. Didn't help that she was starting to linger a bit longer at the Weyr than she was supposed to - indulging in those distractions. « Burning both ends of the candle lately, Jo, » Tacuseth intruded on her thoughts, like he did whenever her defenses were down. Like now. "Been through worse." Speaking of distractions...these days, she's been starting to slip up. Talk about playing with fire, when she seemed to be starting to lose that carefully sharp edge to a kindred gardener with the rough hands and voice that she's drawn to - and who seems to figure her out faster than anyone else at the Weyr, - or the bronzerider with those eyes that would try to undo that tough exterior of hers, or even the blueriding Igen transfer that was probably the most dangerous out of them all - what with those very reasons of her transfer in the first place. Any more fire hazards like them and the convict rider might find herself cooling off someplace she might not be able to get out of. But then, that has always been a problem for her, even back when she was just Jolie: she was a risk-taker. A gambler that didn't know how to quit while she was ahead. She mustn't forget where her loyalties really were, regardless. That was made all the more clear by one of the flight outcomes. She can't lose that sharp honed edge of hers. The winners of both queens' flights....Jo didn't know what to make of it. Her, M'ron and Kaitlin were mired in transporting 'goods' when they all learned it was Taikrin and H'kon that had won them. Brownriders. While Kaitlin and M'ron speculated over the strangeness of the outcome, Jo was more thinking about what position her fellow Glacier wingmate was going to be in now - one of the Weyrleaders? - and, what that might mean for them. Flighty Kaitlin didn't see the significance, but Jo and M'ron certainly did. These days, Jo had a feeling she knew where Taikrin's loyalties were, and it wasn't really with them anymore. If her wingmate has truly gone to the other side, and now was in a seat of power in the Weyr...what did that spell for those of them that had been placed there all those turns ago? People like Jo and Kaitlin and M'ron? It was a sobering thought, one that had the bluerider worrying a little about the future. Her future, in particular. It was one of her jobs with Greenfields at the Weyr to report any changes. Perhaps it was time to do so. |
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