Chores, Chores, And More Chores {Shin}

[Akira]

Demetri sighed unhappily as he finished washing the dishes from last night's supper. He still had to wash the dishes from today's breakfast, and lunch. Why us Iona? He would have preferred moping the floors in the candidate barracks, or cleaning up after the runner beasts, well, maybe it wasn't that bad. After all, runner beasts were pretty stinky. He shook his head, and then stared at the piles of dishes.

Iona crooned to Her's, and was glad that she didn't have to dirty herself helping him. I should make you help you lazy flit! He glared at his firelizard as he spoke. The golden flit barked indignantly when she heard that Hers wanted her to help him with his dirty work. She rustled her golden wings and growled angerily and turned her back on the tall boy. There was no way on Pern he was going to make her soil herself cleaning dirty dishes.

[shinska]

Petal stepped into the Kitchens. She had been given this chore for the week with a boy named Demetri. Once she was there she watched as a Gold Firelizard turned away from her owner angrily. "Well what did you say that made her angry?" Petal saw the boy was doing dishes and she understood why the Gold was angry. She stepped up next to the boy, "Can I help?" She held a hand out to take some dishes and a towel. The young girl did not really like doing chores, but it beat sitting around doing nothing and she never complained when it meant she wasn't sitting around like a vegetable and fattening herself up.

Life at Trelis was very exciting. The girl was excited to see her first Hatching. She had never seen one before, except for Firelizard ones, and she was looking forward to seeing a Dragon one. The creatures were amazing and she liked the idea of riding a Queen, but a Green was just as good to her. Petal wasn't picky and she didn't think she was leader material anyway. Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail. She was doing chores and didn't want to spend all her time trying to keep it out of her face. Two small locks of hair hung loose because they were too short to fit into her ponytail.

A smile played on her face as she began helping with the dishes. No Gold liked getting themselves dirty and the ones that were calmer than others rarely did anything that would make them dirty. Petal also thought Whers were pretty in their own way. Of course they did have a funny thought speak that she was rather partial to. The girl had only heard one Wher speak before and thought the way he had talked was cute. Petal did not mind one way or another what she got. She did not like the thought of how some people were depressed at what they had gotten. She knew that some people wanted the high colors, but got lower ranking ones instead. Of course they grew to love their bonded slowly, but surely.