Logs:Stars and Equations
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| RL Date: 5 August, 2015 |
| Who: Edyis, Serin |
| Involves: High Reaches Weyr |
| Type: Log |
| What: Elevator duty creates a chance to meet new people. |
| Where: Weyr Entrance, Star Stones; High Reaches Weyr |
| When: 13D 6M 38T I10, summer night |
| OOC Notes: Feel free to edit, correct, and alter away! |
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>---< Weyr Entrance, High Reaches Weyr >-------------------------------------<
Cutting through the Weyr's massive outer flank, the tunnel from the
outside spills out into a smooth-cut space where wagons often pull in to
unload supplies or take shelter during bad weather. Crates and dollies
line one wall, ready to be pressed into service for carting stuff around.
Five other passageways, dimly lit by well-spaced glows, lead deeper into
the Weyr; a draft from the centermost hints at the bowl beyond.
-----------------------------< Active Players >-----------------------------
Edyis F 21 5'4" athletic, brown hair, brown eyes 0s
Serin M 20 6'1" slim, blond hair, blue eyes 16s
>---< Star Stones, High Reaches Weyr(#854RJ) >-------------------------------<
High on the southeastern edge of the Weyr, the Star Stones cast a
now-lopsided shadow over the sheared stone plateau that holds them, a hole
in the skyline left where the Eye Rock once stood. A watchrider stands
guard here day and night, Pass or Interval, keeping an eye out for
incoming visitors and inclement weather. Where the Eye Rock once stood, a
scattering of debris remains, but nothing else; two dragonlengths south,
the silent column of the Finger Rock stands alone, awaiting the balancing
of the sun on its tip at the solstice to warn of the imminence of Thread.
Between, and set out slightly to the side is the squat shape of the actual
Star Stone, with an arrow pointing to where each of the other two stones
should stand.
The view from the Star Stones is unparalleled, its closest match that from
the southern rim. A full circle around the Weyr can be seen from the Snowy
Wastes to the north, to Keogh in the east, the peaks of the Western Range
and Tillek Bay to the south, Pars and River Bend to the west. The only way
up or down from the Star Stones is a-dragonback.
Warm sunshine and cloudless skies make for a beautiful day and pleasantly
warm evening. A breeze tempers the heat with no humidity lingering in the
air. It's late, but someone has to get stuck with elevator duty on occasion, and this summer evening it seems to be a smaller woman and her brown settled near the entrance of the bowl, adjusting the straps. Akluseth seems to be restless, his tail swishing across the dirt anxiously.
"That would be us." Edyis grins, something almost mischievous sparking in her expression at the praise of her lifemate. « At least someone admires my dashing good looks. » The brown seems to study Serin more intently with the praise, nose inching forward in an attempt to sniff at him. "I'm Edyis, and this would be Akluseth." She tilts her head studying him, "You aren't by chance related to anyone here?" She wonders as she sets to unhooking a spare belt and passing it in his direction. Serin doesn't shy away from the brown nosing at him, seems he's not one that's unfamiliar with dragons so it doesn't bother him - at least, unless the mouth starts opening. "Nice to meet you Akluseth." He really /tries/ to say the name though he likely butchers it a little before giving his rider a grin, "And you too, Edyis." He reaches for the belt as it's offered to him, seeming familiar with being a passenger as well! Good thing he's no scared hold boy or anything. "Ah, yes. My mother is a Starsmith here and I think a brother or two of mine is still lurking about, though they look a lot different than me." He gives her a good look over too, trying to place if he knows her, but fails. "Probably not who I was thinking of then." The former scribe states sagely. "Ak-lou-seth" She enunciates for him again with a smile, "It's fun to say once you get the hang of it." But of his family she lifts a shoulder, "Then probably not who I was thinking of then." She shrugs, "You been here long?" The weyr she must mean as she pulls herself up between the brown's neck ridges, and offers a hand up behind her." Serin looks skeptical about trying to pronounce it again, and asks, "Can I just call him Seth?" He seems serious, reaching for the offered hand to pull himself up; luckily he doesn't require too much help. "I'm terrible with dragon names, even worse than with people's names." He admits, settling in easily enough and shrugging a little. "I don't know who you were thinking of, but I guess not. I just returned recently, but I was raised here before going to apprentice." The brown eyes him, as though weighing the nickname with thought. « If the poor kid really can't pronounce it, but it might get confusing down the road. » Edyis smirks, "He doesn't seem to mind it too much." There's a tilt of her chin, "Speaking of names, I don't recall getting yours." Checking his straps to make sure he's secured. "Lou?" Serin asks the brown, you know, offering alternatives! "I don't think "Ak" would be so great, sounds like a feline coughing up a hairball." He says, and really ought to learn to shut his trap sometimes, but so far he hasn't learned to. Straps are secured, though a little lightning is probably all they needed. "Sorry. It's Serin. I'm more into math but sometimes to check that I have things right I have to go up and look." He /does/ have a purpose, after all. The brown rumbles, as without warning he launches into the air. It's possibly as close as one might get to an ok for such a thing. Edyis? She's laughing, "Math, was never amoung my strongest suits, but the view from the star stones is lovely."
Edyis laughs brightly, even as he grabs at her. Akluseth seems to feel the need to show off a touch, since they catch an updraft to really give a view before spiraling down to land on the rim near the starstones. "You ok back there? Sorry, I should have warned you, he tends to get a little carried away." Serin repositions hands once he realizes he's grabbing, though doesn't let go until the ground is reached and they've landed. He shudders a little, but it passes quickly and he shakes his head. "It's okay, I know some do... I just must be more tired than usual." He admits, adding, "Sorry if I grabbed too hard or something." He waits until the brown is relatively still to make his great escape. Edyis laughs, dark eyes watching the young man. "It is ok you know, to be a little scared of it." Slipping down and giving the brown's neck an affectionate scratch. "Faranth knows I was when I first came to live here." There's something of a smirk for the words too hard laughing. "I'm not breakable, not much to worry about there. You seem fairly comfortable with flying otherwise. I hope we didn't put you off it." Serin seems far more comfortable on land, and sets his satchel down to pull out a handheld sky viewer and some of the figures he'd been working on careful to make sure something is holding down the papers as he leaves them on the ground. "I'm not scared, I just wasn't ready." He is quick to retort, though grins at her afterwards, "I've done it some, not as much as you.. of course. But, I'm sure it's different being the dragon's life mate rather than an unwitting passenger." He says and glances up at the brown. "He's a bit of a show-off though, huh?" Edyis steps to where she can study his notes, or at least what she might see of them. "He can be, but mostly he likes it when everyone around him is having fun. His idea of fun might just vary a little from others." She grins wryly. The brown in question takes wing almost immediately, settling on the rim nearby. "I just get a little more warning than everyone else." She tilts her head again. "These equations, what are they for?" The notes are complicated looking and have fairly complex equations on them, from what can be seen - but they don't immediately identify what exactly they're for at all. Serin scrunches his nose a little, "It was fun, probably would have been more so if I were prepared though." He says, and kneels down next to the notes partly to see them better, partly because he feels more comfortable that way. "There's a star up there, and I'm calculating how close it's going to get to another star. But, it's something I have to watch to see how fast it's moving and comparing it to others in another part of the sky..." He looks at her to see if she's bored yet, "Sorry, it's really hard to point out specific stars if they're not so bright to stand out." Dark eyes lift studying the skyline, before kneeling next to him to get a better look at the lists "You can actually calculate it out?" She wonders lifting one of the papers if allowed studying the writing. "I'm not sure I can understand the complexity of the equation, but you have lovely handwriting." She admits with a grin. Serin allows the lifting of one of the papers, while taking a look through the viewer to look at the stars. "Yeah, well.. Mostly. It still needs some work." After a moment, he grabs something to write with out of his bag, and nudges a paper closer to write some more numbers on it. Appears he's left handed, as he holds the viewer with his right before leaving the writing utensil on the paper and gives her a smirk. "Thank you? With numbers it's important to be able to read them, and my mother spent a lot of time when I was young making sure my writing was good." He says, and offers her the viewer to look through if she wants. "Ever use one of these before?" Edyis studies the instrument cautious, and delicate with her handling of it, "Can't say that I have." She lifts it peering through, "You take after her then? Your mother?" Things definitely seem a lot closer when looking through it, and there's some dots inside that even in the night sky are visible. Serin gives a brief nod in response, "Yeah, perhaps a little too much. We are both Starsmiths, and my brothers are much more.. well, manly, I guess. You'd never know they're related to me. Brown hair and broad shoulders." He muses, and asks, "Do you have any siblings?" She looks through the viewer before handing it back. "Several, My sisters are at Weaver Hall and my baby brother is living in Tillek with his uncle." She smiles, "Granted they look quite a bit different from me and our older siblings, blondes all three of them." She studies him then, "Is that so? Maybe I've seen them around." She ponders. "I have four older brothers, I think one of them got searched once. But, they're a fair bit older than I am, and the oldest two I barely know at all." Serin adds, slumping down so he can tuck the viewer back in his satchel and just look up at the stars for a while. "I think my mother always wanted a girl, but nope - five boys. All different fathers, too. Not even sure who mine is." "Weyrbred then?" Edyis wonders, settling her back against the stone, stretching out. "Damn, I thought our family was a little weird, but I guess having kids from different parents isn't all that strange. My stepmother was a good woman after all." She glances over pensive, "Does it ever bother you? The not knowing part?" "Born and raised here, in this very weyr." Serin says with a grin, sitting cross legged and adding some more notes to his papers before stacking them neatly. "My mother really had no interest in any sort of actual steady relationship, she never has. It doesn't really bother me, no. I mean, not that I'm not -curious-, but it's not a big deal. You have any relationships? I mean, I guess you're a weyrling so you can't? But, I don't know how strict things are really." "She has a way of drawing people back I'm told." Edyis states of High Reaches, and she listens as he talks about his mother, though the question has her laughing. "That's kind of a personal question for a stranger to be asking don't you think?" Teasing him for a beat, "I suppose that depends on how you define a relationship, though. I've made friends; though if you mean intimately..." "I wish it was my choice, but I sort of got dragged back by my mother. Though luckily she doesn't intrude in my life too much." Serin says with a sigh, though overall it doesn't seem to bother him overly much. He tucks away the papers into his satchel, and shrugs his shoulders a little. "You don't have to answer if you don't want to. Guess I'm just bad with asking blunt questions about those things without thinking if I should." He says with a hint of amusement. Edyis chuckles, "You should enjoy having her around, never know when the opportunity might pass you by." Of blunt questions she just smiles, "Had you asked me a turn ago I'd have clammed up and turned bright pink. But there are a couple people I don't mind spending time with, if that answers your question. Of course now you get to answer the same." A wry twist of her lips, "It's only fair." "She's alright, overall. Maybe a little embarrassing sometimes." Serin admits, tucking his notes back into his bag and closing it up. Seems whatever he was here to do was a quick look, and nothing extensive. "That would have been cute." He smirks, leaning back onto his hands and looks away towards where the brown took off to, before returning his gaze to Edyis. "Ah.. I'd say it's complicated but it's really not. I am a /lot/ like my mother. I have a few friends, of course, and flings... Well, they're great too." He pushes himself to his feet, wiping off some of the dirt. "Was just a quick check tonight, but I really appreciate the help getting up here." It doesn't take much for Akluseth to return, perhaps on cue from his lifemate who doesn't take much to get up to her feet. She grins then, "Come on we'll take you down. It was fun. If you ever need a lift, we are around." |
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