Weyrling time ((open))

[Ceyra]

J'zyn kicked the small rock that marred the otherwise pristine entrance to their weyr. It bounced off a larger rock outside, and careened out of view. He mumbled under his breath, and turned around, giving the 'porch' a final stroke of the broom.

Do you have to drag so much junk in with you, Zamyth? he complained to the bronze weyrling that lay inside on the cool rock ledge that was his bed. You must have something to do, rider-mine. he teased back, his tone light and happy. His rider grumbled, and came back inside. He felt hot and dirty, from cleaning both his now shiny bronze lump of jokes, and from doing a deep cleaning on their chamber. It now shone spotless, and he shone with dirt. He shot a disgusted look at Zamyth, and stripped off the dirty tunic, and grabbed up a towel and sweetsand.

Don't scrub too hard, J'zyn, you might fade away... the deep mental voice of bronze Zamyth echoed in his head as he stalked down the corridor to the shared bathing chambers. There he stripped off the dark breeches and boots, and slid into the welcoming waters that swirled endlessly in the large bath. He settled in, and began to *scrub*.

[perncowboy]

C'tan lifted his head up from the edge to see who had come in. He smiled a bit, recognizing J'zyn as another bronze rider. He'd keep quiet for now, once the other Weyrling had all the grime off he'd be much more sociable.

C'tan was in the lovely relaxed and floating stage where every muscle ache had left, all the oil and dirt was off him and he knew he had time to just relax. He was treasuring the feeling, and sharing it with Terrenth. Life kept getting busier and busier as his broze grew and became more aware of the Weyr around him.

C'tan,
Chalby's class

[dragonshadow58]

Yuri groaned, messaging her shoulders with her free hand as she walked down the boy’s side of the Weyrling barracks a pile of fresh towels in her other hand. She had just finish refilling all the towels and soap sand in the girl’s bathroom and though she had wanted to take a bath herself she did not want to take one with that crowed. With all the giggling and the splashing she was glad to be out of their quickly and was resigned to the fact that she was going to halve to wait another hour before she could go in there and have a quite time to herself.

The Brown Weyrling still had one last chore and she was going to get it done no mater what. but as she neared the boys washroom she heard voices, at first she smiled perhaps she would not have to spend the afternoon alone after all but then that smile was wiped clean as she remembered that unlike her old hold and the riders bath the Weyrlings where kept quite separate when it came to things like bathing and sleeping. When has that ever stopped you? The browns voice came not unexpectedly and Yuri smiled again though the dragon could not see it, but he could feel it. Just go in and do your chore and maybe who ever is in there won’t mind if you are there and then you can stay. I love your optimism love. Yuri said as she knocked twice and walked in without waiting for a reply.

Closing the door behind her Yuri tilted her head at the too men their names coming to mind after only a moment. “good afternoon C’tan, J’zyn” she moved over to the towel basket without a second look at them and after depositing her lode turned back, “hard afternoon?”

[perncowboy]

"Ah, the usual. Rubbing the aches and itches out of Terrenth transferred them all to me. J'zyn here got his dragon clean by putting all the dirt on himself." C'tan shrugged, then grinned when it didn't hurt and continued gently stretching out his arms and shoulders.

C'tan always found Yuri easy to talk to. She had many of the same worries with her brown as he did with his bronze, they often ended up bathing or oiling their dragons next to each other. It made being around her easier then most of the girls.

[cerinthe]

J'rin made his way into the bathing room, feeling covered in oil, sweat and dirt. He had gotten caught while stting up one of his many pranks, and he had paid for it with 3 sevendays of Latrines duty all by himself. 'Why me he thought tiredly' but he knew why, he couldn't keep oput of trouble its was something that hadbecome a part of his eveyday life it seemed.

He sunk into the water and nodded to C'tan and J'zyn. Both bronze riders, he didn't know them to well. J'rin didn't have that many friends at the time. Then he noticed Yuri and gave her a curt nod, wondering what she was doing in the Boy's bathing room? With a shrug J'rin cast the thought from his mind, and began scrubbing himself. Trying to get rid of the dirt, sweat and oil from his body.

[Ceyra]

J'zyn scrubbed hard to get at the grime that seemed encrusted on his arms. He didn't notice anyone else in the pools, though there were several of them. He dunked himself in the swirling warm water, and ran his hands over his corded muscles to get the soap off. He came up, sputtering slightly, and reached for more soapsand. His hand stopped when he glanced up, and saw someone else in here. It took him a second to place the boy, and his bronze jumped in, trying to be useful. That is Terrenth's rider, J'zyn. he said helpfully. Even that didn't register for a second. Oh yeah, C'tan. The boy was several classes behind them, but had a bronze, so he had a few classes together. The bronzes weren't that great in number so most of them knew each other. He managed a grin, and said, "Ah, hey C'tan, didn't see ya there." He laughed shortly, and sunk into the water a little.

He stayed still a moment, then he reahced around and took the thong out of his hair. It tumbled wetly about his shoulder in dark silken braids. He set the thong on the side of the bath, and submerged to wet his hair down right. When he came up, he held his head back, and his hands went to smooth back the overly long hair. His fingers ran though it, taking out the braids that covered his head. He barely looked up when a third person walked into the room, though the water he was in was only mid thigh deep. He wasn't facing C'tan, so he didn't think he'd be flashing anyone.

When Yuri came in, his hands were tangled in his hair, trying to get out a stubborn braid. He didn't realize it was a female, until he heard the voice, then he froze. Female?!? He turned slowly, facing her. About a sceond later he thought about his position, and fell into the water with a splash, folding his knees to quicken the descent to make him decent. He came up a second later, hair half covering his face, chest and back, and peered at the intruder to maledom. "Yuri? Shards girl, what are you doing in here?" He sounded more incredulous than he was, but he had been surprised to see her. He shook his head, submerged as he was to the shoulders, his hair floated about him like a wet shroud.

He stayed like that for a full minute, before coming to himself. He knew he'd be in trouble if he stood up, so he dunked his head, swept his hair back and began to scrub it, nonchalantly. "So, what are you up to?" He asked, the question could be directed at either of them.

He said hello to J'rin when he came in,too. Shells it was getting crowded in here!

[dragonshadow58]

Yuri nodded to each of the men in turn though J’zyn didn’t seem to have noticed her yet that or he was not a very shy person. That theory went down the drain however when he finally turned to look at her and fell into the water in a hurry. The brown rider tried vainly not to laugh as his long hair covered most of his face as well as his back, but she couldn’t help it. Her laugh wasn’t at all like the girls in the other rooms giggles but more like a boy who had just seen his best friend do something really stupid.

Grinning evilly she approached the pool and rolling her pants up sat down on the edge to soak her feet, “well I was refilling your guess towels and soap sand but now I think I’ll just wait here for the other bath to empty out.” She kicked her feet in the water momentarily before reaching into her pocket and pulling out a plain hair stick. Taking the thong out of her hair she let it fall about her back the smooth gold locks shining in the light of the glows. She brushed it back with her fingers before twisting it up into a messy bun and sticking the stick though it.

Completely unaware that any of her motions might be in the least bit attractive she sighed again and rubbed her own sore shoulders. “I understand what you mean C’tan, it seems the only way I can get Norith clean is by getting myself dirty, and though I never minded getting dirty before I do hate how the oil makes your close cling to your body.” She kicked her feet gently causing the warm water to swirl about her legs and ankles, “what about you J’rin? Or is that muck from a different kind of cleaning?” She arched an eyebrow at her fellow Weyrling and grind good naturedly at him, she like most of the Weyrlings knew that he had gotten extra chose do to one of his antics, “perhaps if you get a partner next time you can split the lode of cores?” but then again probably not, the last time she had been punished for ending a fight with a Weyr brat she was the only one punished, though some did say the boy had gotten punishment enough as he had to explain to everyone he saw how he had gotten such a nice black eye and bloody lip.

[cerinthe]

J'rin tuend his dark brown eyes on Yuri and grinned, though it looked more like a smirk. "Oh just the usual...I got Lantrin duty for doing a nasty..uh..prank on a pair of Drudges. Unfortunatly one of the cook's got hit also." He smirked once more and the stared at her"So what are you doing in here anyways.?" He looked at Yuri curiously.

[Ceyra]

J'zyn ran his hand tighly down his gathered hair, squeezing the water out of it. He said, "You know J'rin, if you stopped pulling so many pranks, you might not get so many extra chores." pointing out the obvious with a grin. He was still sitting slightly more than waist deep in the water, since Yuri was in here. "And who smacked you, anyway?" he asked J'rin as he wrapped a towel around his hair, and settled in for a muscle relaxing saok in the warm, swirling waters.

[perncowboy]

C'tan ducked his head under water to avoid laughing out loud at Yuro's antics. She, J'rin and a few of the others made life so much easier and put some fun into things. It was hard to always act as he should when part of him was cheering on the mischief makers.

[dragonshadow58]

Yuri smiled evily at J’rin’s story, she would have loved to see that prank, but she shrugged at his question. “killing time really, I’m done with my chore now that I’ve refilled your wash room, and I don’t want to go into the girls wash room while those giggling wherys are swarming the place.” Smiling she kicked a little water at him, “why dose it bother you that I’m here?” she then turned her sparkling eyes on J’zyn, “I think its safe to say it bothers J’zyn, by the way he reacted… not that there’s much more for him to hide anymore anyway.”

What she really wanted to do was get in with them, the hot water felt so good but was making her sweat, the small beads of perspiration running down her neck and between her breasts, She would keep her under cloths on… was it really such a bad idea? No answered her dragon coming only slightly out of his doze, if you want to do it then do it, I bath with my brothers all the time. its not the same love, I’m a girl and though I don’t care they might and the Weyrling Master certainly will. all she got in return was a confused feeling as her brown shrugged and laid back down, you will have to explain this more to me when I’m not so tired.

[perncowboy]

"Because things are seperated in Hold and Craft, so they aren't completely used to Weyr life yet." C'tan replied, not quite quoting one of the Candidate Masters early lectures. "don't you remeber all that? What gets me is, now when we have Dragons and it matters how we act toward each other, some of those 'giggling wherrys' either forget or don't believe we have to be careful how we act until our dragons are mature. There are a couple I would love to see get given an ice bath!"

C'tan shared her irritation with some of the others. It wasn't like it was easy for him to not flirt at times, but he mostly remembered not to.

"Maybe we should ask for a new seperation of baths? giggling wherries over there, non giggling ones here?" he grinned imagining presenting that idea to their teachers.

[cerinthe]

J'rin ducked away from the water that Yrui splashed at him. He grinned and then shrugged as he continued to wash his dirty body. "Well I do't care if your here...as long as you don't get us in trouble." He eyed Yuri slyly but his slyness was quickly replaced with his usuall mischif-full smile. He wasn't having a bad time after all. J'rin hadn't really been listening to J'zyn. Turning his head J'rin blinked and then desided to be nice for once. "Sorry J'zyn didn't catch that...my ears are so full of dirt its a wonder i can hear anything." He made a show of picking his ears before he truend back and listened to Yuri and C'tan speak about the "giggly wherrys' or something like that.

"I don't know why they try to endanger their dragons...well I guess the girls don't really try but they don't listen to common sense. Personally I can wait a turn or two for my dragon. Fith is more important to me than flirting." J'rin nodded his head as he spoke. He was rarely serious about anything, but when it comes to his dragon J'rin took great care of what and what not to do to make sure that Fith wouldn't gte hurt in anyway.

[Ceyra]

J'zyn snorted to himself at J'rin's casual blow off of him. He laughed aloud at the boy's actions though, and grinned.

"Maybe those same girls are experiencing freedom for the first time, and don't know what to do with it. After all, they are pretty enough to turn heads anywhere, and just knowing subconsiously that one day any one of us may fly their greens, I think they are trying to keep open minds. Several of them are true wherry heads , though, you're right about that, C'tan. " he said, in a rare moment of adult thinking. Was it his head, or his dragon's though? Zamyth had stirred himself enough to listen to the conversation, and was commenting that he would love to fly the greens when they ready. After all, wasn't he the best bronze on all of Pern? J'zyn assured him he was, and listened to the others.

[dragonshadow58]

((sorry if you guys I lost computer access there for a wile, I’m still willing to play this one out if you are…))

Yuri listened idly to the boy’s explanation on the girls attitudes finding that she liked J’zyn’s the best. “Freedom or not you would think they could wait a few more turns for that kind of freedom.” She glared at the swirling water as her real thoughts to all that he had said floated at the tip of her tong until they finally came poring out. “And it’s true, they do look at you guys as future flight partners, they talk about it almost every night, but every time I look at them they stop and look away in discuss. Apparently they don’t care which one of you fly’s them as long as you don’t have bigger boobs then they do.” She kicked down a little harder then she meant to sending more water on to her then onto the men.

Ringing her shirt free of all of the water and sweat Yuri smiled despite her unexplainable anger at the girls. “Not that any of that matters now, as we where saying we have a few turns before we have to worry about something so fleeting and pointless. H’ron told me that flight partners rarely stay together anyway so why worry.” Shaking the last drop free of her shirt Yuri tried to straiten it out again but to no avail. Frustrated she made to take it off, that was what she would have done with the boys at home anyway but she stopped just short of her breasts and looked out over the water reminding herself that she was not one of the boys and that they might not appreciate her doing that, “you guys don’t mind if I take this off do you? I have a braw on underneath.”