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Post by jovia on Jul 27, 2012 23:57:19 GMT -4
It was only a sevenday later since Linda and F'ro started to spar well before dawn. Today however Linda had slept in, instead of going to the training grounds to even deal with him. Her night was especially horrid as new and fresh nightmares reared their ugly heads. Hana and the rest, already well accustomed to such things since it has been happening all their lives... Just were in deep sleep in their own places well away from the tossing and turning human body.
Covered in cold sweat, her tunic and leggings stuck to her as she tossed and turned fitfully in the cot. The fur that was covering her was almost all the way off the bed and tangled up in her legs as well as it got caught. Tears just seemed to roll off of Linda's cheeks too as she seemed to fight something within her own mind to get every ounce of rest she could. Maybe this was why she was just so violent with sleep deprivation and what sleep she did get was never peaceful? Who knew, but it was probably bound to have an effect on her. But either way she was late to the spar, and fast asleep still.
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 0:13:35 GMT -4
F'ro was annoyed. No, annoyed was an understatement. F'ro was furious. How dare that stupid woman blow him off! He had been improving over the last sevenday, though she could still beat him with relative ease, he was at least figuring out how to listen for her and, more often than not now he would even swing in the right direction.Another sevenday or so and he was sure he'd be able to put up a bit of a fight in the dark. He had managed to shove the weird feeligns he had been having to the back of his mind by focusing on his training, and for the most part it had worked. THings had been going well, he was getting better at waking up at such a rediculous hour, but now he found himself waiting.
Linda was never late, so of course she had to be blowing him off! His first thought was to look in the infirmary, incase she had made an honest mistake and forgotten to mention she was on duty (for F'ro still thought her story about chest pains was a silly lie to avoid him) but when she failed to be there, he went storming through the Weyr, making a beeline for her room. If the sharding wench was sleeping he was going to have a load of fun waking her!
Stopping outside her room, he pushed open the door just enough to peek inside, to make sure she was there first, but.. what was that? Curious, F'ro pushed further inside, his ears straining to figure out if he was just imagining things or not. Something sounded... strange, like she was almost crying or something. He moved slowly, trying to figure out where her sharding flits were, as he doubted they'd take kindly to an intruder.
"Oi.. girl..." He half whispered, his anger deflating as he crept closer. Had something happened? She NEVER slept in! Nor did she wake, which was something he found exceedingly curious. She had always seemed like the type to wake easily. Another bit of creeping, though now it was curiosity, not anger, that drove him forward. The tangled mess of sheets, the dishevelled appearance he could barely make out, and the sound of almost silent crying were signs he recognized from his roommate in the candidate barracks... was she having a nightmare?
If that was the case... F'ro felt torn. on the one hand, he wanted to yell loudly, scare her and take pleasure from watching her jump in fear. Yet, another part of him, the part he had been trying to ignore for weeks, the part that maybe sort of felt some sort of strange attraction to this girl, wanted him to try to comfort her. Biting his lip, he finally settled on a course of action. maybe if he was lucky, he would get to do both? Creeping to the edge of the bed, he tried to sit, then lie on it as silently as he could, wiggling closer to her and surprised that he hadn't felt talons yet. Where were her flits? This was all just too strange. Taking a deep breath, he reached out to shake her shoulder, but instead his hand ended up merely stroking her hair softly. "Linda... Silly little dove... What has managed to reduce you to such a state?" He whispered.
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Post by jovia on Jul 28, 2012 0:51:35 GMT -4
Linda didn't respond at all as F'ro half whispered out as he started to come into her room. One side actually held perches and all sorts of stuff for her hoarde which were being used at the time. But she didn't wake, one of the blue fire lizards though named Joe did as he heard F'ro enter. He merely warbled a greeting softly though as he didn't try to wake Linda. Hana merely opened an eye before curling up and going to sleep. But they weren't really freaking out at all from what was happening to her, Which may or may not be noticable.
Linda tossed and turned a little bit, but didn't wake as F'ro first sat then laid down on her own bed!!! If she was awake she might have done something to him but the nightmare kept its held on her and thus she stayed asleep. Renae and Erani's eyes opened however along with Felli as the two fire lizards and huntyre merely watched F'ro. Ready to call an alarm depending on what he did or wake Linda up. Surprisingly she didn't even wake from the light touch on her hair. In fact it seemed to quiet her down, and even mollify the nightmare somewhat as she slowly, painstakingly, started to ease out of it. If it was just coincidence or having someone there? Linda might not know either.
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 1:03:59 GMT -4
Ah, there they were. F'ro vaguelly noticed the light sounds of her hoard as he settled in next to Linda, but as they didn't seem inclined to attack him he figured it might be okay to ignore them. It was strange though, that they didn't seem to be bothered about the girl's state. Either he was over-worried about her, or perhaps.. this was common? It would certainly explain why she was so grumpy all the time, he supposed. Still, when she failed to wake from his touch, light as it was, he felt his worry grow though it started to settle as she herself seemed to calm a bit.
Frowning, he contemplated just what he should do. He was glad she seemed to be calming down, but did that mean she was going to sleep now, or would she wake? His intentions were innocent enough... but he was still a half-naked young man creeping into her bed. He doubted she would be too thrilled about waking up to that. He truly did want to spar though, but ugh! Those sharding morals of his started eating away at him. It would be cruel to wake her if she was sleeping peacefully now; who knew how much sleep she had gotten, and the last thing he needed was to kick her butt because she was tired.
"You're such a pain sometimes..." He continued whispering, deciding that he may as well let her off easy this time. Perhaps.. maybe he could get a little bit of shut eye himself. Still frowning, though now it was confusion in regards to his inner turmoil that showed in his expression. He knew he should get out of her bed and go back to his own, not only because he clearly had no interest being near her, but also because he wasn't supposed to do relationship things with Apperointh so young. Not that this was a relationship! You had to like eachother for that, and clearly the things he felt for her were in no way romantic!!
Grumbling to himself, he let his hand trail from her hair to her waist and carefully pulled himself closer to her. He could simply use the excuse that he was practicing his stealth.. yeah that was it. Taking another deep breath, he nuzzled against her and let his eyes start to drift shut.
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Post by jovia on Jul 28, 2012 1:25:14 GMT -4
Linda actually fully calmed down, eventually, but didn't wake up. Probably because she was just so tired and after all these years of this she just... needed it apparently. Her eyes though did kind of open once F'ro started to go to sleep while holding her but her mind only made the connection that someone was there sleeping. In her sleep addled mind she thought her brother had shown up so she promptly fell back into an even deeper sleep.
The fire lizards just warbled softly before they too went back to sleep, the Huntyres as well since Linda fed them later and let them sleep in anyways. Linda was catching up on her shut eye with an actually peaceful sleep... It was only a few hours though, Dawn slowly showed up and with that Hana and them started to move. Hunger pangs, gentle since it was the start, woke Linda up from her sound sleep. She just frowned a little bit as she laid there trying to figure out why she felt someone holding her and what happened to her nightmares.
Slowly she turned her head and froze once she saw F'ro, what the so it wasn't her brother!!! oh yeah he wouldn't have been here but then wha... how.... She just frowned, maybe he just wanted to torment her some more after she sent that message to him but now what was she to do. Slowly she tried to pry herself away from him hoping not to wake him as she just tried to think about what happened. She didn't get drunk somehow right?
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 1:37:50 GMT -4
F'ro had forgotten what it felt like to get so much sleep. Sparring with Linda had effectively stolen away half the hours he was used to spending in bed so the feeling of her moving, slight as it was, was enough to rouse him. After all, he was only a really heavy sleeper when he was tired. Blinking his eyes open slowly as sleep started to creep away from him, his arm instinctively tightened to pull her closer to him again.
For a moment, the feeling of a body next to him, and the sight of Linda as he opened his eyes to look at her, caught him by surprise. After a moment though, the memory of a few hours prior returned and he gave a little snort.
"Hnn.. I go out of my way to take care of you aaalll night, and you return the favor by running away? How cruel..." His voice held a hint of sleepiness, as he was still in the process of fully waking up, but it was clear he was teasing her. He gave a lazy smirk, not letting go of her yet. He was still comfortable, and he had every intention of playing the bad guy now that she was no longer being plagued by dreams.
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Post by jovia on Jul 28, 2012 1:47:04 GMT -4
Linda just went wide eyed as she was suddenly pulled closer to him. Taking a deep breath as she tried to stop herself from lashing out and possibly breaking his neck as such close range. Yeah she could just see it now, the higher rankers asking her why she killed him and she would say because he snuck into her bed but didn't mean to... That would go over well like a fire lizard pretending to be a Dragon...
Linda was wide awake now, that much was certain as the adrenaline rushed through her body itching to be used. "Take care of me? ... and I was just trying to get off the bed my fire lizards are hungry. Nevermind wondering what the shards happened and why you are in my bed." Linda frowned a little bit, she noticed the smirk and everything too and he was teasing her yet!! What did he walk in finding out she was with nightmare or something? She glanced over at her hoard and some just chittered as if nothing was out of the ordinary.... If it wasn't for his Dragon it was her fire lizards and Huntyres now!?!?!?!?! What in the world..
Linda though now just tried to pry away his arms, though it probably wouldn't work since he was stronger then her.. She could admit that much... and she couldn't very well slip out of his grasp he would touch some... odd places in odd ways if she tried so she was essentially stuck wasn't she...
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 2:03:51 GMT -4
A-ha! He had surprised her! Sure, she wasn't freaking out as much as he had hoped, but the wide-eyed look was a good start. His grin grew ever wider and the look in his eyes was one of a feline as it played with its food. Oh he was certainly going to enjoy this.
"Why am I in your bed? Why, silly woman, you practically invited me in," His voice purred in amusement as the fingers of one hand started to draw playing circles along her spine. He felt her try to pull away, but if she thought she was getting away that easily just yet, then she was terribly mistaken. No, he was actually hoping she would spill a little bit about what had happened. "I was barely in bed before you cuddled up to me. Surely you were so glad to have me by your side... since you skipped out on sparring and all."
He realized, as his hand continued to dance along her back, that he liked touching her. It wasn't in a perverted way, not at all, he just liked feeling her warmth, knowing how close she was. He shoved the thought from his mind. It would do him no good to think of such things, not right now. He moved his arm, to rest lightly on her hip instead, giving her the opportunity to escape if she wanted.
"I suppose I don't want them to starve. They were terribly kind to me last night, so I suppose I should return the favor."
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Post by jovia on Jul 28, 2012 2:28:00 GMT -4
Linda just scowled a bit, really she didn't invite him in!! well.. she didn't know that anyways so she would just deny it. And he said she skipped out on it too!! Linda just huffed a bit before she decided to try to strike back. "I sent Cad with a message telling you I would be late for the Sparring today, that I would show up to spar after dawn..." Linda glanced over to see Cad.... curled up with the message sticking out from under him. "..... okay so maybe I should have sent Hana or Erani instead...."
"I just... needed a bit more sleep okay, I rarely get any every night and I was feeling a bit exhausted so I tried to get more sleep." Of COURSE she wouldn't mention that it was because of regular nightmares that seem to haunt her... with earnest since that first touching with that blasted garnet egg. Linda even gave out a squeak, a squeak!!! when she felt his fingers trail over her back and just tried to pull away even more now. What did he think he was doing!! It tickled!!! She tried very hard not too squirm like she was ticklish right there but she did try to squirm as if she was trying to get away.... though if he could tell she would probably be screwed.
Finally though she got free and she felt a bit relieved... even though it was rather comfortable there... Instantly her faced turned bright red but she just shook her head and went over to get her stash of dried meat before she started to feed her hoard right there in her room. "Well after I feed them, freshen up, and nibble on something. We can go back to sparring." Linda tried so hard to sound business like and try to forget what had happened.
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 2:46:51 GMT -4
F'ro followed her gaze as she glanced at Cad, and gave her a disappointed look. Really, she claimed her little pets were so well trained but he couldn't even deliver a simple message. Shameful! Shameful indeed.
"Glad to know your knight in shining armor isn't worth the effort of ensuring a note was delivered." He rolled his eyes, not at all complaining that the message hadn't been delivered. After all, he got to be here because of it, got to indulge in his secret little desire under the ruse that he was trying to mess with her.
"Am I waking you up too early for sparring?" He asked, truly curious. He had been under the impression she got up so early because she wanted to, not because she had trouble sleeping or anything. His grin grew twice as large as she squeaked. There was just no way she was.. dare he say it, ticklish? Oh this was just too good! He made sure to store that little tidbit of information for later. Perhaps he would get to pull it on her during a sparring match. He watched her pull away, gulping as she turned bright red and wondering what had caused it. He stayed quiet for a moment, as she went about feeding her pets, but he could only hold his curiosity for so long.
"So. Is it the same dream every night or did I stumble upon a rare find?" He tried to put on an air of indifference as he stretched out in the bed, not wanting to admit that he missed the warmth of her pressed against him. Shards... he was hopeless, wasn't he?
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Post by jovia on Jul 28, 2012 2:56:14 GMT -4
"Hey he sends messages all the time when I am awake... guess because I wasn't there to keep an eye on him he forgot." Linda merely gave a little shrug as best she could... Not like she could change it now but it was food for thought at least. Not to trust the laziest one to send messages when she was fast asleep. Though she couldn't bring herself to wake up the others after all. But then the dreaded question... "No, I usually am up that early anyways, just once in a double moon do I somehow sleep in later." Linda wasn't about to fully explain yet if she could help it.
But nope, he wasn't going to allow her some secrets now was he... Linda just sighed though as she watched her little ones just stuff themselves before she even spoke up.. Maybe she could word it to only recently? No he would eventually find out and probably torment her even worse then if she just told him now. "Not exactly the same dream, but I rarely have a peaceful nights sleep anyways." Linda tried to imitate the air of indifference he had in his tone but probably not as well since her words seem to catch a bit.
"I did wake up slightly earlier I think, for some reason I thought it was my brother... he often times showed up to curl up with me to quiet my nightmares. So don't go thinking its just because of you!"
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Post by Zirin on Jul 28, 2012 3:14:50 GMT -4
"Clearly he was the worst choice then." F'ro shrugged. Again, it was no skin off his back that the little flit had failed to do as instructed. The weyrling was certainly winning.. whatever.. because of it. he made himself plenty comfortable as she went about her business, surprised she hadn't tried to get him to leave yet. one surprise after another today it seemed.
"Hn," It wasn't quite a word. In fact, the sound barely passed for acknowledgement, but truth be told he had little to say on the subject. He understood people had nightmares, or worries that affected their sleep. He could hardly fault her for being affected by something when she wasn't in control.
"I'll go thinking what I want, thank you. I'm much better to wake up next to than a sibling." He replied lazily. It was totally because of him, clearly Linda needed to stop denying that she was entirely dependant on him! He nodded to himself. "I'll admit, I am surprised that even you have something you fear." Sitting up, he rolled his neck to stretch his muscles a bit before looking at her. "Well darling, you certainly didn't seem to mind my help. You're welcome to come crawling into MY bed next time you know, rather than wasting my time making me wait in the field."
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Post by jovia on Jul 31, 2012 19:59:16 GMT -4
If Linda only knew just how F'ro felt that he was winning, all because of Cad... well she might have started the sparring right then and there to put him back in his place. Then later on work on Cad's training a bit more, but right now she didn't so the thoughts never even crossed her mind. Except of course never sleeping after telling Cad to do something after all.
But at least it looked like F'ro wasn't really going to tease and torment her for having a nightmare. Which was good, the remnants still invaded her thoughts as she just shivered a bit from then and tried to push them aside. Maybe now it will do her better to just ignore it and go about her day. At least she had gotten more sleep, thanks to F'ro, then she had in awhile. Not like she would actually admit it but it was nice... in a way...
"I guess, except for the fact of fighting right off the start." Was all Linda could retort with, on his better then waking up next to a sibling. Of course she was denying it was nice just because of him. But frankly now she was trying to not think that maybe he liked being needed by her.. No that was not the case!!! "Everyone does have something they fear, I am no exception." Seriously, did he think she was perfect or something? No probably too stubborn to know fear or too stupid was more the case. Linda glanced over at him though, wondering if he had something he feared as well. But she quickly pushed that thought aside, she didn't really need to know that she could beat him just as easily without.
"Like I said, I tried sending you a message. But doesn't matter I probably won't be doing this again until well after we finish sparring. It is a rare occurrence for me to try to get more sleep at night." Linda didn't even dare comment on the darling part, or that she was welcome to crawl into his bed. She wouldn't keep him waiting again while in the field though that much she will be able to work with. "Anyways we can head off to sparr now if you wish, or you can sleep and I can go about my day. Which is it?"
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Post by Zirin on Aug 2, 2012 22:12:01 GMT -4
"Ah but see, you're the one fighting. I have been nothing but kind and compassionate all morning." He shot back with a dismissive wave of his hand. Besides, they both liked fighting, at least F'ro did. It got his blood pumping. "What is it that scares you so much?" He couldn't stop himself from asking. For once it was genuine curiosity that forced him to ask, for he had truly thought she wsa too stubborn to admit to being afraid, but he would claim it was for blackmail if she got suspicious or anything. "I didn't hear you deny wanting to crawl into my bed," F'ro smirked. Sure, she was probably just ignoring him, but he was going to try to make her feel embarassed if he could! She was so cute- no. No she wasn't. She was entertaining when she blushed, yeah, that was it. F'ro shook his head, trying to hide the pink that had risen to his own cheeks at his thoughts. "So harsh woman. I go out of my way to help you and you're trying to get rid of me already!" He looked outside, trying to gauge how much time he truly had. It wasn't enough to spar, of that he was certain, but he wasn't tired enough to grab a quick nap either. Linda's little stunt had given him a few more hours than he normally got. "Apperointh will be awake soon. I demand that you find some way to entertain me until he wakes. As payback for my kindness."
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Post by jovia on Aug 7, 2012 23:44:24 GMT -4
Linda just gave a little snort "Yes, you have been nothing but kind and compassionate waiting to use anything and everything you can find against me as blackmail in the future." Her voice was sarcastic, but she couldn't help but give a little grin. She had to admit that he did keep her on her toes, which she liked because then it didn't let her rust or stagnate really.
But his question just kind of surprised her as she almost tripped over her own feet. Quickly she looked away from him as she started to go through her pouch and items to make sure they were filled for the day. "Well... my past is most of it.. That is all I will say on the matter." With that Linda hoped he knew enough to not ask more, but not enough or it was too unworthy for blackmail... yes thats it... not because she wanted him to know but to try to nick things before they happened that was it.
"I didn't deny it because I thought my response was obvious, I didn't think you were dumb enough to not realize my response to it." Linda's face did go bright red though as she took out her blades and started to oil and clean them up. Sure she hadn't used them today but she couldn't stop taking care of them lest they rusted or broke.
"You already know how harsh I am... but fine what should I do to entertain you huh? Work on my mending or something like a good little woman?" Linda tried to retort is a mean way but, well she did have some mending she could do but really what would she be able to do to entertain while needing to do her work for the day as she briskly walked around the room getting stuff together?
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