A Place To Hide {Open}

[Akira]

Blanca sighed as she walked through the shadows of the Weyrbowl. It felt like it had been forever since she had first entered the Weyr. It still didn’t feel like a home, but then again, she wasn’t sure if she wanted it to either. Shadow mewled softly from where he walked beside her, and Cin lightly crooned from his own perch on her left shoulder. As always, Nel was silent, but she sent feelings of love, and encouragement. They would find a home for the four of them eventually, they just had to, and they couldn’t give up until they did.

Blanca stopped and knelt down, she was on the side farthest from the hatching sands, and was thankful that the day was overcast. She was hidden quite well despite her silvery white hair. She gently stroked her feline’s black fur, and smiled softly at him. He had been her friend, her family, for five turns now. The two of them had gone through so much together, and he had been such a great comfort to her every night after He had beaten her. She could always count on Shadow to be there for her, he was her protector, and kind of like the big brother of the family.

Blanca then turned her attention to the brown firelizard that was now sitting on the dirt next to the black feline. She had found Cin just one turn after she had found Shadow, and had gone through just about as much with him as she had the feline. She gently stroked his back, and marveled at how calm he was, even in such a strange place. He crooned at her, and she knew he would always be there, the steady force that always kept the family together, always kept them going, even when all they wanted to do was give up. He seemed like the father of the family to her.

Then there was Nel, the little green firelizard had her extra-long tail curled around Blanca’s neck, but she never held on too tightly that it hurt her. She really was the baby of their family; after all she was only two turns old. She had been found not too long before the great Strom had hit Solace, and the young girl was glad for the green’s constant company. She reached up to where Nel was perched on her right shoulder, and gently stroked the green’s small head. If it hadn’t been for the three of them, she wasn’t sure if she would even be here now.

Blanca knew that if she lost any one of them, her world would end, and so would she. She couldn’t live without them, they had gone through so much, and each one of them needed each other. They needed each other’s comfort, and love, and without that, they wouldn’t be a family now would they? Some would say that she has an unnatural relationship with her pets, but to her these weren’t pets, they were her family. The only family she has ever known, and she wouldn’t change any of it for anything or anyone, and she would never let anyone change her mind.

[sorceror]

The boy crouched in the shadows, green eyes gleaming hungrily. He'd been following this girl around for a while. Not that he was interested in her, no, not the silly girl with the black feline. Amysar hated felines anyway - anytime he'd approached them, since he was a small child, they'd hissed and tried to bite him. It was her other 'pets' he was interested in.
Firelizards.
The red-headed child had thought long and hard about his chances of ever getting a dragon. He knew the theory behind them quite well - one of them found a human and liked them and then they'd talk with their minds. Dragons, though, were animals still. Animals hated Sar with a vengeance. Especially felines, but also runners, his neigbor's old canine, the wher who guarded the mine down the river a ways..
So the likelihood of a dragon wanting to do something other than bite his arms off was fairly slim. Amysar liked his arms. He'd decided to test out whether he'd be eaten or..bonded with, or however the candidate master said it worked.
Not that he coud get near most of the adult dragons in the weyr. Also, when he did, they tended to ignore him completely. Amysar was thinking that a firelizard might be a good enough test, though. If it bit him, he should probably assume a dragon would too. If not, maybe he had a chance.

He'd found some likely specimens, who seemed like calm types anyway. They never seemed to get far enough away from the feline girl for him to touch one, though. At least, not without explaining what he was up to.
(Not only that, Sar rather wondered how it was that the mouser showed absolutely no interest in the small, shiny flying things. But oh well.)
He scowled from under his eyebrows, wanting the cat to attack one of them, or for one to fly off by itself, but that seemed unlikely to happen. At this rate, Sar might have to walk up and ask to look at one. Ugh.

The girl walked on. He followed, bare feet noiseless (the riders wanted him to wear shoes, but Sar usually took them off as soon as possible.) She stopped, ruminating over who knew what (she appeared to do that a great deal for some reason), leaving the brown lizard in the dirt next to the feline.
Amysar crouched, moving up behind her, quiet as possible. One touch was all it would take, really. He reached out one hand toward it, froze for just a second, and immediately noticed that the cat was staring right at him.
Be quiet, he mouthed to it, glancing quickly through his orange hair at the girl, hoping she was still off in happy rainbow land or wherever..

[Akira]

Blanca tilted her head curiously when she noticed that Shadow was looking at something in the shadows. That’s when he hissed, and arched his back. Cin jumped in surprise, and flew to His’ shoulder, chittering unhappily at the black feline for scaring him. Nel keened softly and tucked herself as close to the girl’s neck as was possible for a tiny firelizard. None of them but the cat really understanding what on Pern was going on. This included the young girl that they all had made the center of their little family.

Blanca backed away, and narrowed her eyes at the boy that she had finally noticed. A deep, feline sounding growl could be heard emanating from her throat. She didn’t know what he wanted, nor why he had been attempting to hide from her, and from what she could see, touch one of her family members. Cin on the other hand was a little understanding about the entire thing, you see, he liked people where as the rest of the little family was untrusting of everyone they didn’t already know. He chirped curiously at the boy, and sent calming feelings to his family.