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Ashlyn giggled a bit at G'ri's jumping. She hadn't meant to scare him. She honestly thought he had heard her coming. Oh well. She smiled at him as he spoke.

"I'm doing good. Star's being a pain. She just laid a clutch and she's being overprotective mommy." the weyrling replied rolling her eyes a bit. Her flitter was a temperamental creature.

Mine, do I have to stay? Poniteth whined in her head and Ash ran a hand through her hair.

Yes you do, I'll be back soon. she replied silently. Sunny appeared over her head with a pop and a chirp to quickly settle on her shoulder. The gold gave G'ri a happy chirp as she curled her tail around Ash's neck.

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Alanna and Alannask had been ferrying people to the bonfire all evening and the gold was getting tired of it. She was a gold not a pack runner!

No more. Alannask done. the gold declared as they dropped off some more people. Alanna rolled her eyes.

"Come on sweetie. I know you don't want to but we have to do one more trip then we'll be done." she said to her wher. The gold grumbled but followed her handler as they turned to go back up the purple trail.

"You look very nice." Raiin smiled politely to the older rider, "admiring the bonfire? Apparently Zeave and Griffith got a whole turns worth exercise trying to built it themselves. So, you looking forward to a nights worth of no work?"

Nacuent looked around for the person that spoke to her. Her eyes settled on Powder Rider Raiin. She smiled at the other woman. "Thank you, Raiin. You look very fetching in your finest as well. I am definitely looking forward to no work tonight. What about you?"

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Sosse wasn't in the mood to go to some sort of 'outing', but her bonded, Narath was being an overly large pain in her arse for not wanting to go. Sure there would be men there, and she knew her green lifemate would want her to bring one back to keep the bed furs warm! The sharding randy dragon! She had a feeling that Narath was going to have a flight, really, really soon! Just what she needed. A randy green in a flight. "Fine! I'm going, but not to bring a man back here to satisfy you. I'm going to see if there is going to be anything interesting happening."

Narath snorted, but remained quiet.

Smart dragon, Sosse thought upon not hearing a remark from her green.

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Ruthie was not in the mood to be late to any event! And she was tired, but she would never let anyone know that little fact. She would have to tough if out and deal with it later. Her beautiful Spath was sleeping off the labors of their daily chores and lessons. She would be happier once they graduated, but that would be a while away, if she missed her guess. She let the last of her hair strands dangle from the hair she'd have placed into an intricate mass of curls upon the top of her head. She looked at herself in the polished metal on her table and nodded her head. She looked good. Despite her white-blonde hair.

She turned on her heel and left her room to get to the bonfire she's heard others whispering about. She arrived shortly, her dark brown skirts swishing a mere few inches above the ground, her grey eyes watching those that were already at the bonfire.

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It was killing her to see Dragons. But she was coping as best she could since the death of her beloved green. She had put on her best dress. Her black hair fell unchecked to shoulder-baldes. Her dark brown eyes watching those at the bonfire. She'd only arrived a few minutes ago but wasn't eager to start a conversation with anyone just yet. It took her a little while, to overcome the feelings of loneliness and despair that seeing dragons evoked in her. As with the last hatching, she'd been on the brink of going berserk and finding the nearest cliff to kill herself.

Soulyth looked at Wraith and snorted Yes, of course Wraith. I would suggest not acting like one, then. She teased him. She rumbled in an amused tone at Her's.
You could use those two legs of your's, Mine Soulyth quipped, but after rubbing her nose against Wraith's cheek, she padded over to the two Riders.

Baylie smiled. "No, it's not, but I do want to see what the others say!" She said, laughing. who the 'others' were, she was sure J'kel knew. "And you wouldn't want people thinking that we didn't want to come to the party, would you?" She meant more thna that. If they didn't go at all, her friends would tihnk she hadn't gotten up the confidence to ask J'kel-- and she was pretty sure his friends would think the same thing.

"Soulyth, don't even think about it!" She scolded cheerfully, looking up at J'kel's reddened face.


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Mimi smiled as Hanrak smiled, their lips still touching. She had, of course, heard Dearyth's comment.

Through the kiss, she murmered, "hmm, standing here kissing sounds good to me..." She said. Spirith chuckled, a deep sound, and dragon-grinned at Dearyth.
We may have to carry them off to the party in our claws! He said teasingly to the silver dragoness.

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Torri laughed, and looked at Quarth. The lemon dragonette was snuggling up to the brown dragonet.
"I think we'll have to take them with us." She said, starting to walk over to them.
"Unless you think they're at all safe on their own? how many dangerous things or how much mischief cna two baby dragons get into?"

((Guys this is my reply but I might not get it all finished all at once))

Zaeve laughed heartily, imagining that she would hear the screams soon enough. Although she wasn’t sure whether she wanted to.

“I hope they show up arm in arm because if one of them doesn’t act soon enough it might be too late. Or they will just continue to watch from a distance forever.” Zaeve thought about the possibility. “Oh I do hope they show up together. Well come on, let’s go to the entrance of the clearing and maybe we will see our friends soon enough.” Although she wasn't sure whether Ind'i would class them as friends. She didn't seem to have many of those.

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E'nates eyes widened in horro when he realised what the events had turned to.

"No wait, eh. That;s not what it was meant to be."

He was flustered now. She wasn't meant to be thinking he couldn't control his dragon. E'nate grunted as her elbow connected with his stomach three times.

"Ok I will admit that it was rude for me to not even pretend to be scared. I'm sure you put a lot of effort into that evil stare. But concerning your other arguements I beg to differ. You couldn't keep your hands off me." He smiled mischievously at her. "But, to make it up to you for not being scared before. I'll give you another chance."

He pulled her up in front of him, backwards, so that her eyes were level with his and so that the two of them were sitting very close to one another. Eyes locked, chests touching. E;nate was breathing deeply but Fulith was holding his breath....

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Wraith padded forward.
Allow me Soulyth. I will take these two to the bonfire. And I'll be right back for you.
He cheeringfully and flirtily nudged Soulyth with his shoulder before heading towards the edge of his ledge.

J'kel laughed and took hold of Baylie's hand, gentley dragging her across the room.

"Well, I believe our decision has been made for us. So lets go before I decide not to listen to Wraith." His eyes glinted mischievously with the implication of what he could do if he didn't listen to Wraith. "Come on." His arms circled her slight waist and he carefully lifted her up and deposited her on Wraiths back before settling himself behind her. The whole time he had managed to not take his hands off her waist.

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Hanraks arms tightened around Mimi's waist at her comment and he bent deeper into the kiss, ignoring Dearyth's voice in the background, replying to Spirith that none of them might have to go to party the way this was going.
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Rylsea shot a look at Torri. "Come on. We both know that two dragons even as young as these two could get into a LOT of trouble. Although I'm not sure whether us being with them will stop them from getting into trouble anyways. Ltes bring them along anyways. If we dont get a move on, we're gonna miss the whole party. 'Cause it's gonna take a while to walk there."

Torri chuckled. "I thought for sure i sounded as sarcastic as i felt i sounded!" She rolled her eyes. "Apparently not. " She walked back towards Quarth and pushed the dragonet- now the size of a pony- towards the door.

C'mon Quarth. Yuo cna snuggle with Cocoth at the bonfir. She told the lemon dragonette, who reluctantly moved her paws.
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Spirith, if he'd been able to, would have rolled his eyes. As it was, the speed of them increased and changed to a more vibrant blue.

So- you don't want to go to the bonfire? Spirith broadcasted to the others. He was a little slow, Mimi thought, but his intentions were good.
Mimi kissed Hanrak as passionately as he was kissing her. She was happy- so happy, that he shared her feelings.
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Baylie smiled and followed J'kel closing her fingers around his hnad. "Alright" She said, chuckling. "How can I say no? We'll be back soon Soulyth- and of course Wraith will be back first- plenty of time for you two to snuggle up" She teased her dragoness.
She had never ridden someone else's dragon- except when she was Searched- but she didn't mind.

It was J'kel's dragon, after all!

Rylsea smiled at Torri, laughing too, then looked over at her own dragonet. She flicked her fingers at him, to get his attention, he was too busy staring at Quarth.

Coco, you too.

His head swung around to stare at her.

But I don't want to go to the bonfire.

Well Quarth is going. Do you wanna let her go where there are lots of other available males that she can talk to.

Cocoth now realised that if he didn't go to the bonfire now, all the work he had done wooing Quarth tonight would have all been for nothing. She could very well spend the entire night with someone else. He got up quickly as everything sank in.

Well Quarth, I believe I will accompany you to the bonfire, it wouldn't be right to let you go alone.

The tone of his voice sounded as if he was doing her a great favour accompaning her. But Rylsea was sure that Quarth wouldn't mind, not with the way she's been all over Cocoth all night.

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J'kel and Baylie flew in the cool night air over the forest, following the trail to the fire that could be seen from the air. As they flew. Wraith said something.

It seems as if our friends Mimi and Hanrak are on the trail.

Wraith swooped down a little lower so that J'kel could see. Hanrak and Mimi were standing in the middle of the trail, passionately kissing. He leaned forward and spoke into Baylie's ear.

"I believe that those two down there, are Mimi and Hanrak." He spoke with a smile on his face. "Lets go say hello."

Wraith took them down to the ground.

"Well hello you two. You seem to be getting on well." He grinned broadly at the way that Hanrak's face reddened in the night. Secretly, J'kel was jealous, he could imagine Baylie and himself making out in the night....

He shook his head to clear it of the more X-Rated thoughts. Turning his attention back to his friends.

Ind’i, not for the first time, had to admire the recovery time of the brown rider that insisted on making her acquaintance. She knew he was flustered about her noticing Fulith’s reluctance to torture her (at least, that’s what she imagined he was going to do) but he still managed a witty, and quite insulting, retaliation. It was a shame he was too arrogant for his own good, as demonstrated in his misguided affliction with thinking she was actually attracted to him (the ‘hands off’ him remark).

She also had to notice how astonishingly cute he looks when he smirks.

She didn’t struggle (too much) when E’nate moved her. Partly out of curiosity and partly because she was still aware of how high they were. It would be bad, for both of them, if he dropped her. Also, she’d have to hate him more if he’d hurt her, and she was actually enjoying this newfound attention. Ind’i had never been out-of-luck when it came to boys, but this was different. For one, E’nate was not a boy, for two, he was hot and for three, he actually liked that parts about her that scared the others off. And did I mention he was hot?

Once he had moved her, this fact became VERY apparent to Ind’i. Her heart began to race, and her breathing sped up. She tried to make it inconspicuous, and failed miserably. But she wouldn’t give in just yet, he couldn’t win that easy. She had options, the first and the one he should be expecting, was to slap him. Practical, cliché, Ind’i-like. But then there was another option, one much more dangerous for her.

Without any more hesitation – Ind’i kissed him.
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“Yeah, I’m glad that I don’t have any. They’re cute, don’t get me wrong, but Shadow is more than enough for me. And she doesn’t really count because she looks after me, not the other way round. “ G’ri chuckled at the numerous memories of Shadow saving his butt, whether it was out of gratitude or sympathy he still wasn’t sure of.

His ears where still bright red from the embarrassment duly received, but at least his cheeks had calmed down to a more suitable colour. G’ri, once more, looked presentable. But before he could get up the courage to say anything that might sound remotely witty, or related to what he really wanted to see Ash for, Duluth interjected.

Mine! Where iz Poneeteth? Where iz my freend Poneeteth?

Ah, I don’t know.

Well ask!

Ask who....ohh.... Ash. Right, I should do that.

“Erm, Duluth wants to know where Poniteth is. Apparently the ladies aren’t enough for him.”

Waz dat supposed to be a jok?
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“Of course, any excuse to procrastinate will do. Only this way Valureth can’t give me a guilt trip about it.“ Raiin chuckled as her dragons amusement flooded through her.

And some people think you’re mature. I have no idea how they can be so mislead?

You know you love me.

Of course I do. I just think you’re more immature than people give you credit for.

You too Val.

“What’s the bet that some of our newbies are going to fall asleep in training tomorrow?” Raiin figured she should probably turn her attention back to the Junior Weyrwoman, after all she was the reason she was actually over here. And it would be rude to ignore her now that Nacuent had actually noticed her.

E'nate knew that she was interested in him. He saw the tell-tale signs, breathing increasing, face slightly flushing.

Oh yeah, I got you now.

Now she couldn't deny that she liked him. E'nate wasn't expecting anything to happen, she would probabl panic and insist that he put her down, and he would but he would drop her off at the bonfire and then he would leave, giving her heaps of time to mull over what had happened, then totally want him. He had it all planned out.

But it didn't really work out as he planned. She did something, completely unexpected. She kissed him. I mean really kissed him. But he didn't have much time to make the most of it, because, well, he sort of fell off Fulith. Just fell right off. The kiss had him so shocked that he lost grip of Fulith and just slid right off.

E'nate turned bright red halfway to the ground. Did he just fall off his fricken dragon? How was that even possible? That couldn't happen... He couldn't just fall off.

Er, Fulith are you gonna catch me?

It's not that far to the ground....

Wha-?

That was when E'nate hit the ground, Fulith wasn't exactly truthful, it was a reasonable distance to the ground, but he could see what E'nate was going to fall onto, it was a soft springy fern. So when E'nate hit it, all he really did was bounce a little bit, but he was unharmed. Well, everything except his dignity.

Fulith flew to the ground carrying Ind'i with him. E'nate was still lying in the fern, but gradually coming to his senses and deciding that he didn't break anything. Fulith was pretty much laughing his head off.

"Yes flitters can be handfuls." Ashlyn nodded as she stroked Sunny's smooth golden hide. She didn't have to be told twice that flitters were handfuls. She had two queens after all. She tilted her head a bit as G'ri asked her where Poniteth was.

"Oh he's playing babysitter. He's watching Firestar and her clutch cause she's being over protective mommy." she answered smirking a bit and added, "He's none to happy about it either." she chuckled a bit. It was a bit funny messing with Poniteth.

"He might come down a bit later. Star doesn't like Sunny being near her clutch." she commented shrugging a bit. She wasn't sure how Star would handle Sunny around without her so she might leave Star alone. Then again the Ember had the habit of getting into the worst trouble.

Mimi jerked but didn't let her lips leave Hanrak's as she heard J'kel's voice. She smiled and had spirith broadcast what she wanted to say, so she wouldn't have to stop kissing.

Baylie stifled a laugh as they landed and she turned on WRaith's orange back so that both legs dangled over one side.
"J'kel..." She trailed off as she saw Mimi's slight smile. The older woman had her arms around Hanrak's neck and her foggy blue eyes seemed brighter than usual.

Er.. Mine says you're just jealous and... she jokes that you should take this as an example. Spirith broadcasted to all of them. Mimi was sure J'kel would be blushing himself now. She felt Hanrak's blush heating up his skin.

Baylie laughed now and grinned. "J'kel why don't we let the love birds get on with it and get ot the bonfire before its too late?" She said lightly. She knew she was blushing, but only because it very well could have been her and J'kel standing there kissing if Wraith hadn't decided to fly them.

Still, she leaned back against J'kel and turned her head towards his, smiling at him.

Soulyth sent her mind-laughter to Baylie as she shared what Spirith had said for Mimi.

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Josi and Awarth walked along the path and looked around.

"I don't think I've ever gone this way in the dark 'Warth..." Awarth snorted and stomped ahead, Josi running to keep up with the Sapphire.

I'm sure that we'll get there eventually... maybe we'll meet someone?

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Torri grinned at Rylsea and nudged Quarth lightly again. The Lemon dragonette threw her an annoyed look and some disgruntled, but still loving, thoughts.

C'mon Quarthie, let's just get ot the bonfire and then you and Cocoth can snuggle, you know? Quarth shrugged and rumbled lightly, thne turned as Cocoth spoke to her

Cocoth says he's coming! That is very good, I am happy... But he acts like it's His idea when it's Mine! Quarth said, bounding forwards

Still... Race you Cocoth! First one to that odd-shaped tree by the trail wins! She exclaimed, broadening her broadcast ot include the Brown dragonet.

"Dragonets" Torri sighed theatrically, then skipped after Quarth.
"Coem on!"