One must crawl before they walk *Lesson*

[Wish]

I don't see why we have to do this still Panille. You should be finding him, not doing what S'vrin tells you to do.

The green hissed irritably, no better off than she normally was. Whacking the nearest rock, the object skidded to a halt after tumbling to the ground from its few second long flight through the air. If Panille had been any younger and newer at being part of a bond, she would have thought that the dragoness' behavior meant a flight coming up.

Unfortunately, Pan knew her bondmate well enough to understand this was just how Iliath was...all the sharding time. Sighing and rubbing her temple, the redhead paced along the outside line of the Weyr. She had gone outside of the Weyrbowl and to the outer area before one got to the forests to call the lesson seeing as how the gather took up the entire inside space.

Just call them, we'll look for him later. Panille gritted her teeth, not wanting to admit she actually was worried she wouldn't find the amethystrider among the crowd, but Alyara had said that F'lon was there. Panille says it's time to go over your Graduation Ceremony. If you're not here in ten minutes, you're not Graduating! So get the shards over here.

Flicking her wings, Iliath curled around in a large green lump, covering her eyes from the sunlight with one extension. Finally giving in to the nerves that were causing her insides to do flips, Panille walked over to the dragoness and sat in the crook of her neck and shoulder. "I don't know what I'd do without you sometimes."

[Kitsuneko]

R'hard was already prepared by the time the call came from Panille's green, but Kaith was still asleep in his weyr, so he had to drag the brown out of bed, literally if not figuratively. The dragon growled irritably, but there was little bite to his complaints, as he knew his rider had been missing his friend again. He would really have to do something about that one of these days...

Alright, alright, I'm up. Stop tugging my tail, Kaith said, eyes whirling quickly.

R'hard just grinned up at him as he got the riding gear prepared. "Shouldn't you be more excited? One last rehearsal and then we graduate."

Kaith snorted in reply. The sooner it's over with, the better. He lowered a leg so R'hard could climb up, and then they were off. Kaith's reluctance meant that they were among the last to arrive, and the two stood waiting to see what they were supposed to do first.


Hirion and Ferrth were waiting as well, between chatting amongst themselves and their fellow weyrlings. They had arrived early and after paying their respects to Panille and Iliath upon arrival, had taken to ignoring the pair until something interesting happened.

[Zero]

She’s doing it again. The garnet practically growled from his stone couch. With a sigh Vl’kan stopped his gathering of items for his gather stall and threw the dragon a sideways look. “Who’s done what now?” Thormyth merely grunted in response before rising from his couch and walking out on his ledge. The end to our misery. We’ve been summoned to a final meeting before this graduation. Another sigh, only this one was followed by a muttered curse and a frantic ruffling of his hair. At this rate he was never going to get to his stall.

Moving quickly, Vl’kan gathered up the riding gear and made quick work of getting his bonded all harnessed up. “There, lets go.” The Istan quickly hopped up behind the garnets neck and just like that they were off and heading for the meeting place Illiath and Peniath had picked out. They were among the first to arrive, so at least Thormyth couldn’t grumble about being last, and the pair took a spot off to the side. Vl’kan slid down his dragons neck and leaned against a leg as he awaited their final instructions.

[Akira]

Akira had been waiting for the call for some time now, and was a little more than pleased when Oridith finally told her that they had been called. Alright, let’s get this over with. She stood and walked over to where her blue dragon was laying on his ledge, and nimbly climbed onto his. She was more than happy that he had allowed her to leave his riding gear on him from their morning flight together. We can visit the Gather after right Kikimine? She couldn’t help but smile as Oridith used the pet name he had made for her when he was just a hatchling. Yes Ori, we can visit the Gather when we’re done as long as you aren’t too tired and it’s not too late. She patted his neck as she spoke, truly happy for the first time in a long time, all thanks to her loving dragon.

Akira swiftly hopped off of Oridith as soon as he touched down. They were the third ones to show up, which pleased her very much. Oridith was just happy that other dragons where there that he could socialize with, and maybe even make friends. Greetings everyone! His sweet, deep, voice warbled happily in the minds of the other dragons. It had been a while since he had had the opportunity to interact with the other weyrlings that were about to hatch like this, and he planned on taking full advantage of it. Akira on the other hand rolled her eyes at her dragon and just waited quietly for Panille to tell them what they were going to be doing. After all, she was sure that the other woman hadn’t called them there for idle chitter-chatter. At least, she hoped she hadn’t.

[phantomofthewolves]

Finally it was time, Graduation. G'daro hurried to put on his clothes, for he was going to become a full-fledged rider. Banemith watched all of this as well as Fizgig and Bellatrix. Slow down, Mine, she didn't really mean it. he told his rider. G'daro scoffed. Easy for you to say. Your not the one who has to wear clothes.[/i] When he was finished getting dressed, the four of them headed to the Gather.

When they arrived, memories filled G'daro's mind, of when he got Bellatrix. He remembered him taking the egg by accident and it hatching in his hands. He sighed and continued onward to where the Weyrling Master called them to. They arrived and greeted everyone with a handshake and a pat on the back. They were ready, to become real riders!