Logs:Orders to Nap
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| RL Date: 29 April, 2015 |
| Who: K'zin, O'nahi |
| Involves: High Reaches Weyr |
| Type: Log |
| What: AWLM K'zin checks in with Weyrling O'nahi in the first seven after hatching. |
| Where: Weyrling Training Cavern, High Reaches Weyr |
| When: Day 1, Month 8, Turn 37 (Interval 10) |
| OOC Notes: Back-dated. |
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| Structure only sort of exists when dragons are itty bitty. It's structure created by the naturally unnatural rhythms of their young and growing bodies. This morning, it's K'zin bringing klah and damp rags for cleaning hands to the weyrlings undertaking the task of feeding. He only approaches when the dragons seem near done, and so it becomes the young bluerider's turn next: "Morning, O'nahi," the bronzerider who's been around but scarce all the same. "Night pass well enough?" It's an invitation to share any needs or new troubles as is habitually the case with many of the questions the assistants ask in these young days. Rasavyth is nearly perky in the bowl, head set so as to watch the activity in the broad training cavern, his friendly, charming ooze just tickling at the edges of the mental presences of their young charges, but not intruding unless invited. Kuviath started out full of excitement and Things To Do. But a fully belly has taken its toll on the little blue and he's letting O'nahi clean off his heavy muzzle when K'zin's voice makes the new weyrling turn his head to look that way. "Morning, sir," he says. "I think he stayed asleep a little longer." It's trying to be positive, but it's pretty obvious that O'nahi is tired. "Klah?" K'zin offers with sympathetic smile. "It does get easier," he adds as he offers out his clean wet rag for O'nahi's hands before he'll pass over the mug. "A little longer is good. Every little bit longer is closer to all night." The bronzerider who had his own bag-badges under his eyes as the hallmark of not enough sleep is trying to stay positive too, see? It can't last forever. Rasavyth's quietly amused attention focuses in on the blue, a little more pressure there making his presence known, but not forcing interaction. "I hope so. I get so tired later in the day that I can barely aim to pee, let alone eat dinner. Or bathe." TMI? O'nahi doesn't seem to think so. "Thanks," is added as he takes the rag to clean up his hands before the mug that he seems so very pleased about. Kuviath is awake enough to push back at the bronze's presence, but it's sleepy and lazy. And it wouldn't be trying to make him go away even if he weren't, just exploring the touch of another dragon's mind the only way he knows how; without subtly. If it is, K'zin doesn't seem to pay it much mind at this stage of the game. "No problem. It's rough, the waking. And the not sleeping for long. On the bright side, all of the assistants and every rider in the Weyr went through it in their own fashion. Some have it easier than others. You just have to take it as it comes, I think, deal with your lifemate and not worry about what the rest are or aren't doing." He looks over at Kuviath, shifting to do a closer visual inspection of this hide and so on, to keep an eye out for cracks or any developing situation the weyrling boy doesn't know to look for. "Does he seem to be eating enough? Not too much? Thick tail is the worst." The bronzerider makes a face he probably shouldn't as an AWLM, but if O'nahi has experienced the phenomenon already, he'll understand. O'nahi has, perhaps, not experienced this phenomenon already and his mouth is left kind of gaping in response to K'zin's face. "Uh." His gaze shifts down to the blue before he can continue with anything resembling intelligence, "He's eating a lot, but he doesn't seem, like, uncomfortable. Not since the first day. Getting better at telling which one of us is actually hungry, anyway." Probably because it's usually the baby dragon who's hungry. "Is it normal to just want to lay down with him and sleep while he's napping instead of doing other things? Can I do that?" He probably already has. The open-mouthed look gets an amused, "My father would tell you that you'll only swallow vtols looking like that." But K'zin isn't his father, so he doesn't tell O'nahi so. He looks, instead to the blue. "Just make sure that you're eating enough. I always ended up thinking it was Ras who was hungry when it was often me, too. The oiling thing is big too." Isn't everything? "Cracked hide is the worst," next to thick tail. "Napping is not only normal, but necessary for most pairs. Sleep when he sleeps is the best thing you can do for yourself, if you can convince yourself not to steal that time for yourself." Goodness knows few weyrlings get an abundance of 'me' time in this early stage of the game. "Right, right," says O'nahi, listening to K'zin like he's imparting very important wisdom that will make his life better. And, really, it probably will! "Lots of oiling. I think he likes it, even when he doesn't really need it. But he probably needs it more then he thinks, I guess..." The young bluerider considers that and then he's grinning about this business of naps. "That's maybe the best thing I've heard since he told me his name." O'nahi even yawns. "Probably," K'zin agrees affably. "Speaking of naps, you should finish getting him cleaned up and back to his couch before he falls asleep." He recommends, eyeing blue and then rider. "Get some sleep, if you can," he adds before moving to collect another cup of klah for the next pair he visits. "Yes, sir," says O'nahi. There's something almost chipper about the way he says that. Who wouldn't be happy to follow 'orders' to take a nap! "Thanks," he adds, possibly again, for the klah that he was given by the bronzerider. |
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