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Sweet Mystery of Life


Date:  February 14(?), 1997
Place:  Benden Weyr's Living Cavern, Inner Cavern, and Crevice
Game:  PernMUSH
Copyright Info:  The World of Pern is copyright(c) to Anne McCaffrey 
l967. The Dragonriders of Pern(r) is a registered copyright.

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Kassi's Note:  The clutch of Ryialla's green Miko is hatching; its been 
laid in a very dark cranny of the Weyr, however, and though an amazing 
number of people manage to squeeze inside, there's so little light in 
the room that it's impossible to be sure of what's going on.  This 
provides an excellent opportunity for Ryi's player to be sadistic to
poor, hapless Kassi, as you'll see.  (Nah, I kid; I was highly 
entertained by the evil that Ryi inflicted, and by the Hatching in 
general. :)  Thanks, Ryi--it was fun!)

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The Log:

Asrai blinks as people she doesn't recognize go filing through the cavern,
"You're right Kassi, Hera's eggs sure are bringing a lot of new faces about.

Devlin watches the parade of people. "Someone giving away marks in the
inner caverns?"

Kassima peers towards the Inner Cavern. "That's nay the way to the
grounds," she mutters, "and none of these folk are accompanied by a rider,
so they can't be Candidates... I think I'd like to see what's up with this.
Asrai?"

Taran walks towards the inner cavern.

Asrai nods standing, "Sure." She says with more then a little confusion.

Mehlani looks up, blinking.

Benden Weyr> T'fian wonders what's going on the lc.

Benden Weyr> Asrai says, "Ry anounced a FL hatching, we're watching all the
people file through without even a wave ;)"

Deri walks in from the bowl.

Juli walks in from the bowl.

Devlin looks to Mehlani. "Want to see what's up?"

Deri smiles as she comes in, "Hello... what's up?

Juli walks in slowly, she looks lost

Mehlani blinkblinks twice to Devlin, looking more than a trifle daunted by
the flurry of unfamiliar faces wandering in from outside.

Fungus appears from Between.

Asrai looks a little confused as all the people file through the cavern on
their way to some mysterious dealing deeper within the weyr, "We aren't
quite sure...but we were going to find out..."

Kassima stands up and concentrates for a moment, gazing off into space; a
moment later, two blue fire-lizards that weren't previously with her usual
accompaniment settle by the statue. "Guard," is her simple command, before
she pauses to filch a pair of meatrolls. "That's what I intend to find out."

You walk towards the inner cavern.

You walk down the narrow corridor.

You enter from the darkened corridor, trying to adjust your eyes to the
faint light.


Crevice(#13715DOVe)
You are standing at the entrance to a small cave. Warm sands underfoot make
you think that you must be fairly close to Benden's Hatching Grounds. In
fact, the sands at the far end of the cave are too warm for you to stand on
for any length of time. It is there you can see a mound of sand, guarded by
what you think is a green firelizard. The light is too faint for you to
make out the exact color, but egg-shaped lumps in the sand give you the
idea that it is a female guarding her clutch. Another crack on the far wall
has been sealed.
Contents:
Larene 
Ryialla
Obvious exits:
Out


Asrai takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Fungus takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Juli takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Juli follows all the people, looking for someone, yep, but she doesn't see
them, bummer

Taran takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Deri takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Shar takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Ryialla smiles after Shar as she springs from her perch and flits off.

Taran smiles, whispering, although he doesn't know why "Greetings all."

Asrai starts hopping from one foot to the next on the sands as the heat
radiates through the soles of her soft wherrhide boots, "So...what's going
on back here?" In the dark light she almost steps on one of the firelizard
eggs...well right up until the point where she finds a flurry of green
wings in her face warding her off."Woa, ok, I'm sorry." She says hastily as
she backs up a few steps.

Kassima hmmms at the heat as soon as she walks in. "You could fry a
wherry's egg in here... Ryi! Heyla t'you." Taking another step forward, she
squints, and the faint puzzlement on her face clears up. "Fire-lizard
clutch, 'tis? That would explain things."

Ryialla peers through the dark. "Kassi? That you?"

Deri chuckles as she feels the heat and hears Kassi's words.

Juli curls up, eep, it's dark. She holds tightly to her stuffed canine

Juli says in a tiny, 5-turn old voice, "Mama?"

Fungus disappears with a loud pop.

Fungus takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Larene takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Savran takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Gabe takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Kassima nods, skirting through the sands to get closer to Ryi without
getting too close to the clutch. "'Tis I, aye, Ryi. Nice place your lass
has found here."

Devlin tightens his hold on Mehlani's hand, for her comfort of course.

Devlin takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Asrai hears the familier voice pass by her in the pitch dark and grabs onto
Kassi's tunic, practically choking the Greenrider, "Its dark." She says in
all seriousness, just in case someone might have missed that point.

Taran stares at the little green, smiling like a child

Ryialla says "Just a bit, aye. Who's that?"

Mehlani takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Deri grins as she sits down and stays to watch. "Well least it's quiet.
Good place to hide eggs."

Asrai pipes in, "Its me ...Ryi? Asrai."

Juli says again, a bit scared, "Mama?"

Devlin arrives, with Mehlani's hand firmly held in his. He looks around,
then escorts her to a place with a good view of the eggs.

Ryialla says "Ah, Asrai! Heyla.."

Suddenly, the firelizards in the darkened cavern begin a loud humming.

Juli blinks as Spot humms. "spot? What you doin'?"

Taran looks to the eggs, watching, staring

Ryialla says "Whoops..hey, everyone, try and sqoosh in some. I think these
eggs are going to hatch..careful of the others."

Gabe glances around grining at the firelizards while he pulls a piece of
meat out of a pouch.

Mehlani holds tightly to Devlin's hand, looking around the place, wide-eyedly.

Taran fumbles for one of his pouches, eyes still on the eggs

Asrai acks spinning around, wait, or is the sound coming from that
direction? She spins again, "Kassi?" She feels out blindly, her hands
flying over Kassi's face, "that you?"

Juli blinks, firelizards? "Juwiana wanna see..." she says in a quiet voice,
barely audible above the humming

Savran blinks, "Hatch?"

Devlin's brown hops up onto his head and hums from there, watching.

Kassima winces a bit as the members of her Swarm who followed her through
the crevice add their voices to the welcome chorus, too near to her ear for
comfort. With a few shooing motions and some whispered scolds, a flurry of
wings can be heard as several blues and greens settle on what perches they
can find on the walls. "Glad I brought these meatro--aigh! Asrai, don't
poke my eyes out!"

In the gloom, a quicksilver motion draws your attention as one of the eggs
begin to rock violently.

Deri smiles as her group starts humming, and her eyes are drawn you the
eggs as they moove in the deep gloom

Taran grins stupidly, the meatrolls in his hand now

Juli doesn't have any food, she frowns, doesna look like she's gonna get
one. She cries softly, the combination of strangers and the dark.

Asrai is quick to apologize to her friend, trying her best to feel her way
down to a sitting position, "this is silly....how are we suposed to see
anything?" Asrai pats around herself a while before finding some meatrolls
she had shoved in a pouch earlier today while on weeding duty, "Hmmm, this
isn't much of an offering...hope they're too hungy to care."

Silently, a crack of darkness appears in the silver gleam, and something
wet and dark falls out of it.

Ryialla calls out to the child, "Follow my voice and come sit over here,
love..I don't want you to be scared, okay?"

Savran glances over at the crying girl and hands her one of the two
meatrolls he pulls out of his pocket.

Devlin digs around in the pocket of his jacket, coming up with a rumpled
meatroll. He plops a little bit in front of Mehlani, then peers into the
gloom.

Kassima settles down cautiously in the hot sands, rustling sounds audible
as she makes herself as comfortable as possible. Those closest by her might
make out the faint sounds of meatrolls being shredded.

Juli looks around in the dark. She tries to find her way to the voice.
"Juwi don't wike dawk.."

Asrai trys her best to break up her meatroll without loosing too many of
the piece to the sands. Finally able to grasp a piece she holds it out in
the general direction of the creeling sound...

Taran begins breaking his meatroll up watching for a hatchling by him

This firelizard (for firelizard the shape is) gets to shaky feet, letting
out a loud trumpet as it does so. It seesm to be trying to get you to look
at it, as hard as that is in the dark. It must think it deserves to be
looked at, for the trumpeting grows louder. Frustrated, it tries to make
its way to where it thinks it's audience is..and walks right into a wall.

Deri pulls out some of the meat she keeps for her group in her belt pouch,
she holds the meat out to the area where she heard the hatchling and she
croons.

Benden Weyr> K'nan says, "Hey, all.."

Juli trips over something, a foot? she falls face first, landing beside
Ryialla. She sniffles softly, owwie.

Benden Weyr> Ryialla is doing at totally @emitted mystery fl hatching,
K'nan. :)

Kassima listens to the hatchling sounds, and nudges Asrai. "Got enough
meat?" she murmurs, piling the bits of roll in her lap.

Gabe quickly turns his head towards the loud sounds and holds out his food
in the genreal dircation of the nosie.

Devlin leans over and whispers to Mehlani, "Can you see it?"

Benden Weyr> Kassima says, "Oooh, a mystery? It was the greenrider! In the
kitchen! With a wherry skewer! ;)"

Taran knels down, searching in the darkness

Benden Weyr> K'nan oeers at Ryi.

Ryialla says "Oh, are you okay? Here.." Ryi pats the slightly lighter patch
next to her. "You have food for the firelizards, sweetling?""

Mehlani shakes her head back at Devlin. When she realizes he might not make
that out, she whispers tinily, "Uh uh."

Asrai hears a soft *thud* type sound, "What was that?" She peers hard into
the dark, desperate for her eyes to become a little more accustomed to
the...lack of light? She turns her head at the sound of Kassi's voice,
bumping heads with her friend, "Ouch, yeah...I have enough, yeah..." She
rubs her forhead with her free hand, still holding out the bit of meatroll
to the hatchling with the other.

Juli looks up at the voice. "Juwi no gots food."

The firelizard complains. Noisily. Darn wall's not supposed to be
there...With a grumbling sqawk, it turns around and stumbles the opposite way.

Savran watches the figure closely trying to figure out what color it is.
Finely giving up he holds his meatroll out towards it.

Asrai gives her meatroll bit a little wiggle...and then wonders if it
really matters in this pitch blackness. Her best chance being if the
firelizard happens to run into her hand...

Deri chuckles softly as she calls softly, "Here little one, fresh food for
you." she waves her hand in the direction of the squack, wafting the smell
of the meat at the hatchling's possible direction.

Ryialla smiles, and hands the girl some of the wherry she's holding. "Here
you go."

A faint oof can be heard from Kassi's direction as her head collides with
Asrai's. "Where's a glowing green when you need one?" she murmurs softly.
"That much light'd be better'n none... try to make some sort of food-noise
with your meat, Asrai?"

Juli wipes the tears from her eyes, well tries to, they keep coming though,
nope no stopping them. She accepts the meat and holds it near the ground.

Devlin thrusts his hand out with a bit of meatroll in it in the direction
of the egg shaped lumps. His eyes narrow as he tries to track the movements
of the dim creature.

The hatchling hears a noise, and stumbles towards it. What little light
there is leaking in is not helping you tell what color it is, but it is
most definitely hungry. The noisy grumbles have turned to equally noisy
creels.

Something bright orange twitches once, then is still.

From the largest pocket in Juliana's jumper, Spot peeers at the stumbling
figure, he can't even tell what colour it is.

Asrai looks at Kassi strangly, or at least that's what you assume she's
doing in the dark, "Food noise?" She turns back to the hatchinling and
shrugs, "Moooo?"

Gabe grins at Asrai then turns back to watch the hatchling.

The noisy hatchling sticks a well-defined snout in the air (at least, you
think it's a snout), and SNIFFS. It creels, frustrated again. So much food
smell. Where do I go?

The light reflects off a pink surface for the briefest of moments. You
could almost swear it moved..

An incredulous, "Mooo?" is heard. It's definitely Kassi's voice. "Mooo?
Mooo, Asrai? That's a cow noise, nay a food noise. Food sounds like this."
She picks up a handful of meat and starts jigging it energetically, which
does make a sort of sound. Very odd, and not very loud, but it could be
considered to be food-noise. "See? Like that. Food-noise."

Asrai hmmms and tries once more, giving the meatroll a little wiggle...who
knows, maybe the smell will waft over towards the hatchling, showing him or
her the way to food...."Moooo, oink oink....Kassi, why am I making food
noises again?"

Savran watches the hatchling with a smile, "Come on over here."

Juli sniffles, she still looks for her mama, as if she could see her in the
dark. The dark, yes, she cries softly again, why'd she have ta be so
curious. She holds the meat down, not wagging it or anything. She pulls her
stuffed canine close.

Deri chuckles and calls to the poor hungry hatchling, "Here you can have
some food." She holds her hand out by where the flash of orange was and
lets the hatchling smee the food nearby.

Ryialla tries to comfort the poor little girl. "Shh. It's okay. Here. Try
wiggling the meat. Maybe the firelizard will see it?"

Devlin goes 'pssst!' in the direction of the hatchling, tossing a small bit
of meat roll at the direction of it's last seen movement.

Juli sniffles and does what the woman suggests, she wiggles the meat a bit.
Still clutching her stuffed canine to her.

Gabe waits quietly holding the meat within the hatchlings reacvh.

The firelizard stops abruptly as something hits it. It noses the offending
bit. Hey..this smells pretty good. *GULP*. Its guess was right. That WAS
food! Now..where's more?

Taran holds the meat out muttering "...please.....please..."

Devlin chucks another little bit of meatroll in the direction of the
'lizard, since the noise stopped briefly after the last throw.

Mirala takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Asrai drops her offering as something hits it...be it hatchling, or perhaps
just Kassi's hand. either way she quickly offers up another piece,
"*squish* *squish* *squish*"

Kassima shrugs, which causes a faint stirring in the sand audible to those
who are sitting quite close. "I still say that's nay food noise, but...
well, anything's worth a try once." Still waggling her meat about to make
legitimate food-like sounds, she adds, "Baaaaaa. Oink. Mooooo. Cluck,
cluck, even. I don't think this is working, Asrai."

Mirala wanders in, blinking. "Shells but it's dark in here." She pauses to
listen. "Sounds like a hatching....!"

Benden Weyr> Kassima thinks Tria would enjoy this, were she here. ;)

Juli drops her meat, oops, she shuffles her hands through the sand, now
where'd that go. she sniffles still, somewhat quieter now.

Benden Weyr> Asrai says, "Oh most definitely...right up uhntil she called
the guys in white coats to come take us both away."

The braindead firelizard turns its head. Apparently, it can sense something
being thrown towards it. It starts to move towards the food, but gets
confused, and winds up at tiny feet. A BIG thing clutched in arms looks
tasty...it abrubptly jumps and tries to eat the stuffed canine.

Ryialla calls out, "Aye..watch out for baby firelizards and tossed food."

Juli meeps, "It twy eat Bwoo." She pulls the canine back, it's a monster,
she just knows its a monster, she sniffles and freezes, scared

The firelizard stops at the sniffle. It cocks its head and creels at the
little girl. The tone is definitely sheepish. It doesn't want to upset this
small pinkthing..but something smells GOOD.

Mirala nods, peering uselessly around. She carefully feels the ground
beneath her, and finding it clear for the moment, slowly sits down, rooting
in her apron for food.

Asrai would look startled, if you could see her, "something's being
attacked? Who's Bwooo?" She asks in a soft if puzzled voice.

Juli blinks, calming down now, it's not a monster, it's a baby, she tries
to find the dropped meat, with help from Spot she finds it and holds it
down where the creeling thing is.

Ryialla says "This little girl's got a stuffed animal of some sort. The
firelizard thinks it's food, I think."

Deri smiles and clicks her tounge with a soft sound of laughter, "I think
it went after the stuffed canine."

Savran grins at the girl already deciding that she's impressed turns back
to view the rest of the eggs.

The little firelizard creels happily. That's it!! Meat is gobbled, and as
it crawls up into the lillte girl's lap, a bit of light bounces off a
swirled blue hide. The little blue snuggles happily..although it tries to
eat everything in sight.

Asrai continues to glance around in the darkness, straining to hear, since
seeing anything is out of the question, if another hatchling is out there
in search of food.

Suddenly, something large and...ochre?! rolls out of the pile and shatters
in a million pieces. A form BOUNCES out of the shards.

Mehlani jumps a bit at all the sounds in the darkness, while not making any
herself.

Taran watches the little form right before him, holding out the meat "Here
little one."

Devlin starts, bumping into Mehlani, as he catches a glimpse of the
startling motion.

Gabe moves back a step as the hatchling comes out. Slowly he moves back to
his postion holding his meat towards the figure.

The distinct noises of someone rummaging through something suddenly sound.
Given that it's coming from around where Kassima's sitting, it's probably
her. "Here's something that'll make a good food-noise," she murmurs, and
indeed, there is a cracking sound like the shell of a spiderclaw being
broken. "Mooo," the greenrider whispers, just for good measure.

The firelizard is not hopping about so much as bouncing. Rapidly. Making
tiny thump thump noises in the sands. It pauses for only a moment and then
makes a vtol line towards FOOD!

Asrai gives quite a start as she is showered with a few bits of shell from
the exploding egg fragments of the newest hatchling. Leaning forward she
holds out her meatroll piece, "Here squishy squishy squishy." She swings
her offering first this way...then that way...

Mirala cocks her head. Hmm, something bounced; perhaps a hatchling? She
holds out a bit of Bubbly in the general area of the bouncy object. "Um,
hereee lizzie..."

Ryialla blinks as something speeds by her. "What the..?"

Mehlani grabs Devlin's arm a little, as the two youngsters peer into the
darkness.

Savran grins at the bouncing form, "Over here, little one."

Taran watches the 'lizard "Food little one, here you go."

Devlin searches about with his free hand to pick up the meatroll that he
dropped. He pauses in the search to reach over and pat Mehlani's arm
comfortingly. "'Sokay 'Lani," he murmurs, then finally discovers the
dropped meat roll.

Taran leans even further on his knees, looking carefully

The firelizard seems to turn on its tail as it hears the unmistakable sound
of something food-like cracking. It races towards the noise, acting
-excatly- like a feline on the run. It's going so fast, that even though it
goes right through the patch of light, you can't tell what color it is.

Ryialla scrambles out of the way. "Faranth, it's one of Miko's get!"

Deri makes a crooning sound as she holds the meat out for the hatchling

Asrai'sblinks, "Umm Kassi...something's coming this way...and its moving
...fast.." She warns her firend.

Savran blinks at the spot that the hatchling ran through.

Kassima's fingers pause in cracking the spiderclaw only for a moment, as
she gets that minute glimpse of just how fast *something* is moving. "Looks
that way," she agrees with Asrai, quietly so as not to drown out the sound
of the spiderclaw. The faint sounds of meat being ripped out of the
desecrated shell might be caught by a listening ear, and then that odd
wibbly food-noise again, with the cracking serving as a background all the
while.

Mirala gazes around at the speedy hatchling. "Shards, it must be HUNGRY!"

The firelizard spots something else out of the corner of its eye, and
changes direction to chase that. Now it's running around in circles,
chasing it's own tail.

Taran pleads under his breath "..please...here...one..."

Vachon, from Devlin's head, gives a chittering sound that is suspiciously
like laughter. "Uh, I think the sand under that one was too hot," comes
Devlin's voice.

Miko mrowlchirples smugly. That's my offspring!

Asrai coughs a little at the dust the hatchling is stirring up, "What's it
doing now?" She asks Kassi in stage whisper. She holds out her meatroll
bit, still making *squishy* noises between her gum and cheek...just in case
the hatchling tires of this new game and remembers how hungry it was/is.

Savran chuckles as the hatchling starts going around in circles.

Kassima shakes her head in bafflement. "What an *odd* fire-lizard," is her
comment, as she crouches down on the sand in hopes to get a better look.
"Ouch, this stuff is *hot.*" The end of her long braid dangles in the sand,
with faint whispers as it brushes across the floor.

Mirala stares at the little blur in the dark. "Ah, can't find the food,
little thing? That's probably not it." She waggles a scrap of pie. "I've
got some, though. Hereee."

The hatchling suddenly is still, for a long moment. Multifacted eyes gleam
in what little light there is as it waits...suddenly, there is a wiggle in
it's hindquarters, and it launches itself at Kassi's braid.

Taran drops a few peices of meat in the sand, waving the rest "Here small
one, here's the food"

Asrai acks and whips her head back from where she was leaning forward as
she sees this....blur, launch past her face to attach to Kassi's braid.

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "What's going on in the crevice?"

Ryialla,having seen that motion before, makes a strangled noise in her
throat. She does manage to yelp, "Kassi!" as the get of evil
Miko-thinks-she's-a-feline-spawn attacks.

Benden Weyr> Ryialla says, "That mystery hatching. :)"

Deri laughs as she shakes her head. "Seems it likes your hair Kassi."

Benden Weyr> R'val says, "Oooh! Here I come :)"

There's a stifled yelp as Kassi feels something land on the end of her
braid, involuntarily lifting her head so that the end of said braid dangles
tantalizingly *just* within reach. "Oh, 'tis you," she whispers as she
realizes that she's not being attacked by some rabid spiderclaw or
something. Being very, very careful not to make any sudden moves, she
crunches the spiderclaw in her hand again, making that odd cracking noise.

R'val takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Mirala blinks as the little thing pounces on Kassima. "Shells, sure it's a
flit? Acts more like a little beast."

Taran frowns sadly as he realizes it wasn't his

The firelizard jumps at the end of the braid, misses competely, and lands
by the spiderclaw. Ah-hah! Another pounce, and this small green worries at
the spiderclaw, sending little bits flying as she "kills" it. Silvery
stripes are suddenly quite noticeable in an oddly smooth dark green hide.

That godawful bright orange egg shudders. Cracks appear on its surface, and
a dark beak pushes at the membrane at an effort to escape.

Juli grins, happily feeding her new blue, "You cawwed Monner.."

Benden Weyr> Ryialla says, "Congratulations, Kassi. You have my cat."

Benden Weyr> Asrai grins.

Gabe grins as another impresstion is made and turns back to watch the eggs.

Taran smiles agin as he hears the crack of shell

Trina takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Kassima doesn't seem to mind much when she gets hit by the spiderclaw
shrapnel, despite the fact that a bit of shell is now stuck to her cheek
just below an eye. Instead, she occupies herself by rubbing the tiny
green's eyeridges and headknobs once she's finished entertaining herself.
"Miko's daughter," she quips to Ryi, sounding amused and--of course--pleased.

Mehlani makes a very tiny noise that might almost be a giggle.

The membrane rips, and the small firelizard falls out. This lack of light
is driving you nuts..but there is just enough for you to notice a light
pattern on a dark pattern..oddly enough, it looks for all the world like
the firelizard is wearing a... plaid.

Benden Weyr> Kassima woos! Since I can't have one RL, this is the next best
thing. :)

Trina squeezes in, Kvyn told her of something happening here. She squints
in the dark. What's that sound, she stumbles in, tripping over some people,
"Sorry." is said quietly.

R'val chortles quietly under his breath at Kassima's words, "Another Miko?
Just what the weyr needs!"

Mirala's head snaps around to peer at the movement in the black. "Ah,
another thing-in-the-dark." She swings the pie in a wide circle, to be easy
to notice.

Ryialla rubs at the bridge of her nose. "Jays..there's TWO of them."

Devlin peers into the dim light at the newest hatchling. He holds his hand
out into a spot that's brighter than others, hoping that his somewhat worse
for wear meatroll will be attractive enough to gain attention.

R'val laughs softly, "At least they're not /both/ yours, Ryi."

Deri grins and clucks at the hatchlings, "Here, one of you beauties."

A soft giggle can be heard in the dark, coming from the near vacinity as
Kassi, you can only guess that it must be Asrai. Deciding against the
meatroll piece, Asrai's hand brushes against something wet and squishy.
shrugging she grabs hold of it and holds it out to the hatchling...assuming
its a piece of wherry or something...one never can tell in this darkness.

Taran shakes his meatroll again, this time scratching the sand with his
fingertips

"Two?" Gabe questions as he holds his meat out towards one of the hatchlings.

Trina kneels down, careful of her left arm. She squints, what's that, a
hatchling? She gets some meatrolls and dried fish from a pouch.

Ryialla chuckles. "Small mercy.." Her eyes are drawn to this newest
hatchling. "Er..guys...is it patterned like I think it's patterned?"

Kassima can be heard to comment, "Mayhaps there'll be many more after a few
generations, Ryi--just think of that." A faint glack can be heard as
Kassi's braid is abruptly batted, slapping against the side of her face.

R'val chortles quietly, "Kassi, that's a horrible image!"

The hatchling calmly gets to its feet and proudly starts forward. Taking
its own sweet time, it makes its way closer to the group with the appealing
smells coming forth. Don't suppose anyone has some haggis?

Juli giggles at the new blue that she got, he likes to snuggle, that's her
kind of flit. She hugs him.

Taran smiles, watching the little waddler "Here you go little one" still
dragging his finger tips in the sand

A multicolored egg shudders a little, making you, for some odd reason,
oddly queasy.

Trina shoots glances from the movements of the hatchlings? to the eggs?

Kassima peers at the new hatchling, squinting to make out any hint of
coloration in the dark. "I'm nay sure, Ryi, but it looks like... oh, nay.
It couldn't be."

Asrai's offering seems to be wiggling just a hair more then can be
attributed to the slight movements of her wrist...just what /did/ she pick
up, and do you really want to know? She holds it out for the hatchling,
perhaps he/she won't be so picky.

Deri clucks at the hatching and waves her meat, "Here my beauty, I've meat
to fillyer belly." she says as she holds out her hand to the hatchling

Savran holds his meatroll out breaking it into piece and setting them
around him so he can cover the most distance.

Devlin waves the meatroll back and forth a slowly, patiently. It moves from
a darker spot through the lighter spot and back again.

Asrai squints in the darkness, making a small, 'uh oh' sound...and then a
fit of giggles, "I think it is.."

Zehara takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Mirala watches the creature wander over. She keeps swinging her scrap in a
circle, talking softly but noticably to the thing. "What'cha be wanting,
critter? I've got some foooood, heerreeee."

Tucked inside Trina's armsling, Kvyn pokes his small head out and chitters
shyly, he tries not to hurt his pet's arm, but she winces as he hits a sore
spot.

Taran waves vigilently "Here small one, I know you want this one."

The hatchling strides over, carefully looking over each selection. You can
definitely tell the hide is in a plaid pattern. Too bad you can't tell what
color the 'plaid' is.

Zehara blunders in, bumping into a wall before locating a safely open spot,
"Oof." WIth a quick apology for someone's foot, she sidesteps and crouches,
quiet safe for some shuffling.

Mirala catches sight of the hatchling's hide. "My! What did your dam do
while she was clutching you?" She giggles. "But don't worry flit, it's a
nice hide pattern, very unusual."

Asrai continues to giggle, unable to stop now that the pattern of the
color...whatever that color might be is made clear, "Oh it is it is...you
truely belong here in Benden little one." She holds out her....omystery
offering. Her slight wiggle giving it a ...life of its own?

Gabe holds his piece of meat towards the hatchling whispering softly.

The world seems to come to a three-minute halt as the firelizard inspects
the offering before it. It drawls out a lizard-sigh and moves on.
Patrriach? Oatcakes? Och, it'd even settle for some of those nobby
tuber-like things..

Trina wiggles her offering a bit with her right hand, her left arm stays
out of the way, don't wanna bang it, nope, she shifts, what's this? She
leans against it, is it a wall. Yikes, not a wall, but a person, she gasps
and stutters an apology.

Deri holds out the wherry to the hungry one, "Here hon, eat. I know that
tummy of yers wants filling." She keeps the meat where the plaid one can
smell and sniff at it.

Mirala jiggles her Bubbly, crooning at the flit. "Hey now, aren't you going
to eat? You must be hungry." She fiddles with her pie, waving it around to
be seen.

Devlin waves a bit of meat roll around, though his motions at this point
seem more habitual than purposeful

Zehara rifles through her beltpouch, muffling an exclamation of pain as she
apparently grabs somethingless than appropriate, then produces something
which introduces a vaguely salty tang into the air.

Mehlani murmurs softly to Devlin, "I don't see them!"

The hatchling gives voice to a bagpipe-sounding creel that is not
pleading..merely stating. Ye wuid nay starve a poor firelizard like meself,
now wuid ye?

A part of the sand moves. You think that was an egg..

Devlin says "Look down a bit, 'Lani. You can catch their movements if
you're careful to not look at the brighter spots in the area."

Taran offers the meat to the darkness "Here you go little one."

Asrai scrunches up her face a little as she feel her ..well what she
thought was a wherry strip, move in her fingers...but she didn't wiggle it.
Her hand becomes frozen, "Oh...Kassi....I think...uh oh." She holds out the
...thing from her, hoping desperately that the hatchling will take it off
her hands.

Mehlani leans forward a bit, squinting into the darkness.

Mirala keeps on tossing her scraps about, trying to catch the hatchling's
eye. "Hereeee lizzie, hereee, I've got foood..."

R'val peers a little closer into the darkness, squinting.

Savran says "Come on over here. I've got lots of food for you."

Kassima looks up from Kitrine, having been oblivious to her friend's
wriggling foodstuffs. "Hmmm?" is her articulate question, and then her
attention is caught by the sound. "A fair voice the lad's got on him,
i'truth. Better start mooing again."

Taran watches the moving eggs, a look of joy in his eyes

Devlin acks as Vachon realizes abruptly what's going on and jealously hops
down to try to steal the meatroll from Devlin. This results into the sounds
of indignant squawking and a tuffle, though whether the squawks come from
Devlin or the 'lizard is uncertain.

Tucked inside Trina's armsling, Kvyn peeks out his tiny snout again, he
wants some food. Trina unconsciously stuffs a piece of dried fish in the
little maw.

Gabe holds out his meat for a few more seconds then stands up giving up.

The plaid one lizard 'humphs. Weill..meat wuid do, aye. He strolls by,
taking its own sweet time, looking for the choicest bit of meat.

R'val shakes his head, "A plaid lizard. Truly, I've seen it all.'

Zehara scoots a bit lower, her motion then followed by a soft impact of
cloth and skin against the ground, settling herself a bit more securely.
She gives the salt bit a wave, tch tch'ing quietly."

Deri chuckles and places her meat right in front of the creeling hatchlings
muzzle, "Then eat."

Devlin manages to throw a miner cookie across the room, and Vachon's brown
wings reflect a flash of light as he swoops after the cookie, certain that
it's the meatroll.

Mirala starts to juggle the pie pieces. "Heyla, liz, d'ya like Bubbly? Fine
Benden Hold Bubbly? You can have some, it's over hereeee."

For he it is, And a bonny lad, too. He stops before the noisy Devlin and
pratically bugles at the lad just after gobbling the offering. Are ye going
ta natter on or are ye going ta feed me? Brown hide swims into focus as he
takes a step closer.

Taran nods "I know you can hear me little one."

Trina's attention goes back to the hatchling, yep, that's a perty one. She
smiles a bit, at least you think 'twas a smile. "Aye little, would you like
some nice fishies?" she asks, holding the meat down toward the hatchling.

Mehlani eeks, jumping at Devlin and Vachon's antics.

Asrai hmms to herself, fidgitting a bit in her seat as she holds
the...thing as far away from her as possible. Faranth forbid she should
drop it and not know where it is....."Here you go....hhmm hmm hm....fine
'meat' here...hmmm hmm hm..."

Devlin blinks once, then twice as the meatroll he saved from Vachon is
gobbled down by the newly hatched brown. "Uh. Here," he thrusts forwards a
bit more meatroll to the hatchling.

Trina squints, did it choose? She tries to see it, hmm, sharding dark in here.

Savran nods a congretulations to Devlin turning his attention back to the
eggs,

Mehlani, locating Devlin and making out what he's doing, lets out a very
brief, but very clear, little peal of laughter.

A blot of pink wiggles, wobbles.. and falls down. A firelizard-shaped
something emerges, only to be momentarly obscured by the light bouncing off
the pink shell.

Zehara continues to wave the meat around, evidently unaware of much besides
the creeling and shifting of bodies. She chuckles at her own confusion.

Mirala looks over at the little plaid. "My, a brown! Congrats." She calls
to the Impressee, wiggles her pies towards the newest moving shape.
"Hereeee Lizzieee, hereee!"

Trina blinks at the pink shell, interesting, she tries to locate whatever
came from it. In the process, she bumps her slinged arm, "Yowch!" is heard
and the meat falls, darnit all. Trina struggles between rubbing her arm and
looking for her meat.

Taran looks to the newly born 'lizard "Get up small one, get up now."

This firelizard seems very sure of itself, and at the same time, oddly shy.
It pauses for a moment, and eextends wings. Well, you think it extends
wings. It looks more like shadows moving in shadows, but whatever.

Juli jumps at the yell, meep, monsters again?

Devlin lets out a sudden groan, "How am I going to survive *two* of them,"
is his plaintive cry, as he gathers up the hatchling and continues to feed
it. Vachon soon returns to scold Devlin jealously.

Asrai wimpers softly, "Kassi, this...thing, I think its alive.." She holds
out the ...thing. Luckily its still in the general direction of the hungry
hatchling."Mmmooooo, oinck, squishy.." She despartly tries the food-noises
again in hopes of getting the hatchling to eat this ...thing.

Mehlani leans over to whisper something to Devlin.

Deri croons to the shy lizard and wriggles her meat, softly and gently at
the shy hatchling

Mehlani mutters to Devlin, "... They..."

Zehara makes an embarrassed sound as the grumbling of her own stomach can
be heard. With that, a chewing sound commences, clearing the salty tang
until the sound of her once again rummaging through her beltpouch is heard.

Devlin hmphs at Mehlani. "I'll never sleep again."

From Juli's shoulder, Monner From the general direction of Juli,

Mirala tries to keep watch of the new lizard. "Heyhey litlle baby, no need
to be afraid, we all just want to feed you." She croons softly and holds
out her scraps at the shadow.

Kassima murmurs to Asrai, "Want me to tell Elentari there's food over here?
She'll eat just about anything, so long as 'tis fresh--and alive's as fresh
as one can get, after all."

From Juli's shoulder, Monner chitters deeply.

Mehlani tells you shyly, She mutters to Devlin, "I'll..." 

Devlin settles, warily, back away from the eggs. He grins at Mehlani, a
flash of white in the darkness, "Well. Okay." He pauses, "I think I'll call
him Haggis."

The firelizard clambers up the first handy surface, and tries to fly off of
it. It only manages to fall on its muzzle in the dark. It gets to shaky
feet, and the shadow shrugs. Hey, drinking and driving don't mix..so it
rides a bike.

Trina whimpers and rubs her arm, sore, yowch. Her attention is all on her
arm now, the hatchlings forgotten. She rocks back and forth, making small
scraping sounds in the sand

Taran shifts to one knee still waving the meatroll, now mostly bits in his
hand "Here 'lizard, meat is just waiting for you." smiling

Thera takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Thera coos! "So this is where everyone is hiding...and where all those
murmuring sounds were echoing from..."

Zehara ooohs, chewing thoughtfully for a bit, then suggesting, "Pee Wee?"

Mehlani giggles very softly to Devlin's idea of a name, and peers in close
to see if she can see the new brown.

Mirala giggles at the hatchling. "You're a funny little thing!"

Asrai meeps as the wiggling thing manages to shake loose of her
fingers...thanksfully its at some distance from her body. she quickly
replaces it with some meatroll, hoping beyond all hope that some hungry
hatchling gets it before it manages to make its way back towards her.

Devlin holds up the hatchling, trying to get it into a bit of a brighter
spot so 'Lani can see. Vachon sulks, perched on Devlin's knee.

A wing cocks inward, as if the firelizard is trying to check something on
the top its head..hair, perhaps? Finding the hair is fine, it suddenly
starts dancing, to its own music.

Asrai hears some strange movements coming from the general direction of the
newest hatchling, shaking her head slightly she wonders just what in
Faranth's name its doing to be making such a racket.

Taran chuckles at the akward 'lizard "What are you doing small one?"

Zehara continues to chew the tough...whatever it is, trying to make some
sense of the confusion of movements. With a rather strained swallow, she
clears her mouth and hmms curiously.

The hatchling stops and sulks. Why does Andie want to go to the prom with
that Blaine guy, when she could go with it? Blaine. Hmph. Sounds like a
refridgerator.

Mirala watches the flit. "Strange strange strange. A plaid Liz and now this. "

Thera edges her way closer, and crouches, checking the group of hatched,
to-be-hatched, and newly impressed flits over.

Zehara dohs and would fall down laughing if she weren't already on the ground.
Trina's attention is still on that arm, oh yeah, the hatching, she turns
her attention back to the eggs and hatchling(s)? Now, where'd that meat go?
Shuffle shuffle, sift, ah there's a piece.

The hatchling looks up, suddenly noticing the thing dangling from Asrai's
hand. Andie! You came back! A dazzling blue hide streaks by as Duckie
screeches to stop in front of the girl.

Taran look extremely lost

Juli grins, "'nuver bwoo"

Asrai leans forward with her meatroll...not to much forward...got to stay
away from that wigglie, whatever...she is startled to find there's a
waiting muzzle at the end of her hand, "Why here you go fellow." She pops
the meat into his mouth, soon to be followed by many more.

Juli grins and looks for the shards of Monner's egg, they were pretty,
meep, she falls face first in the sand, leaned a little too far. She shrugs
and lays on her tummy, her two blues crawl to her back to get acquainted.

The multicolored egg wiggles, making the colors swirl sickly. You get the
feeling you're on the sea, in a storm, on a boat that's held together with
string and spit.

A zigzag crack appears and a firelizard ooozes out.

Asrai continues to feed her newest horde member, glad she isn't watching
the egg...

Zehara makes a face that is in now way visible, but the oddly muffled groan
is audible, "I doan think I can look..." So instead she just holds out some
of that salted stuff again, trying not to peek.

Thera grins impishly. "Good thing i left my own at home." She begins to pat
her pockets for tidbits.

Mirala blinks as she watches the multicolored egg. She tightens her hold on
the floor, but when the egg hatches she blinks again and holds out some
scraps. "Heeereeee Lizzie!"

Taran sits cross legged watching the new hatchling "Get up sweety"

What ooozes out suddenly stands straight, and emits a tart-sounding creel.
I AM up, thank you very much. With a toss of a wing, it strolls over to
R'val and starts...rubbing against his leg?

Trina wiggles her meat, sand flies off of it from when it fell, ah well,
she tried. She squeezes it a bit.

R'val blinks down at the little fellow and leans down, offering a large,
dripping hunk of meat, grinning, "Here you go little guy. Eat up! There's
more where this comes from."

Taran watches the little lizard then turns away, quietly

Trina grins, "That one acts like my feline." She laughs quite hard now.

Deri purrs at the newly hatches firelizard and wriggles her meat near it,
Here little one, fresh food."

Ryialla follows the lizard with her eyes, and blinks at it. She says in an
aside to Kassi, "Remind me to take Spaz far, far, FAR away next time Miko's
proddy."

Mirala laughs. "Do all the hatchlings in the clutch think they're felines?"

Taran stands and moves to the back of the crowd watching over the shoulders

Zehara gives a soft chuckle, "I should've brought some of those almost ripe
redfruits...sounds like you'd probably have liked them...wherever you are..."

Juli leans on her elbows, growing a bit tired, she giggles at the feline
lizard

The hatchling sniffs at the meat, then pratically sneers. I want attention,
you goob, not food. It sashays off, and looks for the next likely
vic..er..target.

R'val hrmphs at the picky little hatchling and chuckles.

Kassima watches the oozing hatchling, as Kitrine reaches up an inquisitive
forelimb to bat at the greenrider's longish black bangs. "Just be glad she
doesn't try to lay eggs out in the snow, Ryi. Mart's queen does that, and
what eggs hatch tend to be very... odd. If Miko'd done that with this
clutch, and they'd gotten *weirder*...."

Trina tries to cease her laughing, but can't. She laughs and huffs and
puffs, "I wonder what Sal would do." she says to herself

Taran begins to put the meatroll back in one of his pouches, watching all
the other with their new friends

Thera looks from Ryialla over to Kassi, and her story about Mart's queen.
"You know, suddenly i'm very glad about only have males."

Mirala hmms as the flit wanders away from R'val. "Woulda thought that one'd
Impress. Ah well." She peers at it. "Heyhey Critter, whatcha up to?"

Devlin casts a wary glance towards the newest hatching, and gives a hissing
'shush!'. "If you wake up Haggis, I'll never get any peace," he admonishes.

Zehara squints, trying to catch something more specific, movement wise,
then make an atempt to shift the salty tidbit in a better direction.
Someone's knee ends up well fed, and she sighs, apologizing.

Juli's head begins to droop, uh-oh, and her without a bed near, she lays
her head down on Bwoo, good thing she doesna take much room.

The hatchling buts up against Trina. Aren't I beauuuuuuutiful? What little
light you have shows you it isn't even close to being beautiful, as it
looks more like a heap of scraps tosses into a bag that's not quite holding
together.

Taran watches the antics with a small grin

Kassima laughs and calls over to Thera--at least, she thinks it's Thera;
hard to see in this light, "My queen, Zabreneva, is Phenix's daughter; her
last clutch was also out in the snow, and only seven eggs hatched of it.
Trust me, they were *bizarre*."

Devlin leans over to Mehlani and half whispers, "I definitely think the
sand in here was too hot. These are *strange* 'lizards."

Trina blinks and giggles, she reaches down her right hand, offering
scritches if the hatchling wants 'em. "Hey now, just be careful there." She
lifts her slinged arm up

Thera grins at Kassi. "Well, tis only fitting that you match her." She mock
ducks, and chuckles quietly.

Zehara gives out a low whistle, "If this doan count as a
bit...ah...odd...beggin yer pardons...heh..." she chuckles softly..."And I
thought I'd seen...or not seen..everything.

Mehlani bobbobs her head rapidly.

Juli says sleepily, "Here kitty kitty. She likes felines, but a feline
hatchling, now wouldn't her fostermom like that.

Haggis gives a contented burp and settles back down to sleep. Vachon's
response is a derisive short.

Taran shuffles his feet, looking all around, the 'lizard having gone out of
his sight

A small piece of something identifyable as some sort of meat goes flying
towards Thera's head from Kassi's general direction.

The hatchling leeannnnnnnnns into the scritches, soaking up the attention
like the others were bolting down food. It suddenly pulls away and trills
tartly. Where IS my food. I'd do anything for fooooooooooood...

Trina chuckles and gets some scraps from her left fingers, she holds them
down to the hatchling

Thera eeeps, and wipes a bit of wherry off her cheek. "Ick." She leans over
to proffer it to the little lizard, whilst looking about her for other
tossing ammo.

Juli's eyes half close as she repeats sleepily, "Here kitty kitty kitt..."

Taran continues to look around hearing only the little chirp

Mirala watches the funny little hatchling. "You like to tease, huh? Want
some food?" She offers it a bit of pie.

Ryialla smiles softly down at the tired little girl. Unconsciously almost,
she hums a faint lullaby.

Asrai giggles softly as she strokes her own now....snoring Blue.

The hatchling sniffs at the scraps, and sneers. Don't you have anything
btetter? It smells something..sweet. Like it. It oozes its way over to the
girl with the pie, and headbutts her.

Juli crawls a bit closer to the nice woman that gave her food to give
Monner, she rests her head on Ryialla's lap, bwoo now tucked tightly
against her chest.

Zehara sits quietly now, save for the occassion soft tch tch as she, most
likely, wiggles that salty stuff around.

Trina sighs as her offering is turned down, "'tis all I have..." she
pleads, then frowns and shakes her head, so much for that, sniffle..

Mirala smiles down at the hatchling. "Want some Bubbly?" She lowers the
bits right in front of it. "Hereeee you are."

The light chooses that moment to highlight the unattractive visage of this
green..a green that looks half-formed and is the exact color of whatever
you would call the Pernese equivalent of a Hefty bag.

Taran decides to try one more time, he kneels down very close to the
rocking eggs, watching and waiting

Thera chirrs softly down at the wee green, waggling her wherry bit.

Deri chuckles as she watches, her own two greens enough

The green chomps down on the pie. See. Somebody knows how to treat her right.

Devlin catches a glimpse of the green's color and comments to 'Lani, "Uh,
maybe plaid isn't so bad."

Taran turns to see the happily eating green, surprised at how fast it toom
that Bubbly

In fact, the green crawls right into the remants of Mirala's pie, wallowing
in it in a gluttonly fashion.

Mehlani giggles tinily.

Trina turns away from that green hatchling, hiding her sadness. She stuffs
the meat into Kvyn's small maw. "At least you like whatI have." she says
softly to him. 'Tis not her fault she has to take what she gets.

Mirala croons at the Green, gently picking her up with one hand while
feeding her with the other. "My, you certainly are a... *beautiful* flit."
She rolls her eyes as it crawls /in/ the Bubbly.

Thera giggles at the green.

R'val laughs softly, 'Silly green.' He murmurs./

The sand heaves suddenly.

Asrai looks over at Kassi, "you know, its scary...but I think I'm starting
to be able to see stuff..."

Taran chuckles at the hearty eater "At least she can hunt Bubbly's for you."

Another heave, and beige shards fly everywhere accompanied by a grouchy
firelizard grumble.

At that slight sound, Taran turns instantly back to tyhe sands looking for
the new one

Kassima chuckles. "Eyes are getting used to the dark, most like. 'Twill
hurt like fires when you're out in the light again."

Trina doesn't turn around, not yet. She's getting rid of the 'unapproved'
meat. At least her brown likes it. She continues to feed the small maw.

This particular firelizard radiates grumpiness. It is evident in its very
stance, as it plops down in the sand and -sits- there, complaining loudly
about having to be here at all.

Mirala grins in the way of Taran's voice. "Ah well, I think most of my
lizards can do that, they appear whenever I bake them. But she, well, must
be a nice flit..."

Taran fumbles for the meatroll he put away

Zehara gives a bemused, if puzzled chuckle as she hears some squishing
noises from Mirala's direction, she thinks, then shifts again to offer her
salted..hmm...wherry? Maybe.

Taran says "Oh you want us to come to you then?"

Trina is quickly dozing off as she rests her head on the nice woman's lap.
She's not Mama, but she'll work for now.

Trina grumbles

The firelizard hisses at the noise. I don't want to you come here, and I
certainly don't want to go there. Hm. Well, either this is a proddy female
or a really confused and pissed off male.

Thera looks over to Kassi. "If i say something nasty again, will you toss
me some more left overs?" She grins devilishly. "Asking you to share'd be
too easy, of course..."

Taran watches the little grump, smiling "What's it to be small one?"

Trina tosses some of the unwanted food at the grumpy one, maybe it'll like
/her/ offerings

Kassima laughs and throws an entire meatroll at Thera. "Consider this back
payment for a few things you've said in the past, or are going to say in
the future."

Zehara lets loose with a quiet chuckle, "A fair welcome, that one gives.
Doan want food, then, I s'pose. Ah well...I can eat it...again.." She chews
while pulling out yet another salt tanged morsel.

The hatchling bats at the flying food, then gets up, moves about a foot to
the left, and plops down again. Sulk, sulk, sulk. Someone hasn't figured
out it's hungry yet.

Deri shakes her head and eyes the grumpy hatchling

Thera laughs. "Thanks Kassi." She breaks the meatroll in half, and offers
it to the new hatchling.

Taran laughs and then moves his hand close to the 'lizard "It's here if you
want but I'm not dropping it."

Juli quickly dozes on Ryialla's lap, her two blues perched precariously on
her side.

Mirala arranges her, well, ugly Green in her arm crook; and with a faint
blur of a wave to everyone, begins to pick her way to the opening. "It's
way past my bedtime... Thanks everyone!"

Vachon gives an almost shriek of annoyance as he discovers that Haggis has
fallen asleep in the spot he covets. He tail baps the young hatchling,
waking him up and drawing forth a surprised squeak from him. Devlin heaves
a sigh.

Trina finally turns back around, okay, she's finished sulking about the
teasing green. She holds some meat nicely out to the grump

The hatchling launches to its feet and stalks over to Taran and Zehara. Oh
yeah? Well, maybe I'm too good for your food. Maybe I don't want it..maybe
my stomach isn't craving the yummy,juic..er, horrible nasty meat. Yeah,
that's it.

Zehara blinks a few times, noting the flying splotches, then blinking down
at the moving blot, "No..no...prolly a rock...guess I could eat another
one...." she pulls a bit out of her pouch, then pauses at another movement.

Ryialla strokes the little girl's hair, softly..just like she does for her
daughter.

R'val stands, patting down his tunic, "An interesting hatching,' He grins
at Ryialla.

Mehlani awws, and offers Vachon a hand, murmuring softly to him.

Taran keeps the meat just out of the lizards reach, grinning "You have to
get up small one."

Vachon instantly turns his ire to sounds of wounded helplesslessness and
promptly milks Mehlani for all the attention she's willing to give.

Juli murmers something about pretty blues and fun firelizard games in her
sleep. She gurgles, it's not Mama, but it'll work for now.

The hatchling squawks! MY food!!! Gimme! The light nearly blinds you as it
reflects off a glowing green hide. This poor firelizard will be a holy
terror when she's proddy, considering her state as newborn. She launches
herself at the salty meat.

Taran takes hs meat away, a small tear in his eye "I guess I'd better go."

The 'proddy' green tastes it..and oddly enough, likes it. She gobbles down
the food, and demands more.

Taran stands and very carefully makes his way to the crack

Zehara ooks, releasing the salted tidbits to the eager maw, making certain
to have reinforcements well in reach, "I've ahh...got plenty...really..."
and the sound of rustling beltpouch continues.."there...really..."

Taran turns just before he goes, choking out "Congratulations, all of you."

Zehara carefully gathers up the little green, smiling through the darkness
at Ryialla, she thinks, cautious to continue the stream of food, "My
thanks...truly."

Devlin reaches over and taps Mehlani's shoulder, "I need to head back to
Merla's weyr. I've got to finish cleaning my room, or she'll give my hide
to Kimbrith."

Trina sighs a bit, now, back to the task at hand, finding...well
looking..for her mother. She knows she was a dragonrider, but what
weyr..Trina wrinkles her nose thoughtfully.

Mehlani bobbobs her head and gets up, still cuddling Vachon, to follow
Devlin out.

Juli is nice and comfortable though, she doesn't want to get up.
But...where's Mama?

Devlin shifts the brown hatchling to a pocket within his jacket and stands
up, holding a hand out to Mehlani.

Asrai gathers up her hatchling, depositing Duckie into one of her large
pockets, "OK, I think I can make it out of here without killing
myself.....I think."

Mehlani takes the dark-haired boy's hand in her free one, and padpads out.

Thera eats the meatroll she was just offerringer contemplatively.

Mehlani takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Zehara pushes to her feet, wincing at a raucus protest, "I'll be off now,
then...before my ears start t' bleed, I think." She croons softly, "There
now...not the fingers, love."

Zehara takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Devlin takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Deri chuckles

Zehara looks around...having no idea exactly where she is

Deri takes a deep breath and squeezes through the crevice.

Kassima yawns and stands up. "Ach, I feel half-cooked," she quips with a
smile. "Thankee muchly for allowing me to attend, Ryi. I appreciate it...
now, at least. When Kitrine grows to be as much of a terror as Miko...."
With a wink, Kassi crawls out through the gap in the wall.

You squeeze back out into the corridor.