Late Night Breakfast {Jill}

[Akira]

Amon stretched and yawned loudly as he sleepily made his way down to the kitchens. He wasn’t sure what time it was exactly but he was sure the sun had only set a couple of hours before he had woken up. So he was still a head of schedule, which was actually pretty normal for the wherhandler. Maybe he would have time for a quick bath after he ate his breakfast but before he roused his brown wher so they could go out on their rounds. He knew he would still have some extra time that he would need to figure out what he should do with, but hey, he would get to them when he got that far. At that moment though, the only thing on his mind was food, and a lot of it. He had forgotten to eat supper the night before and he was definitely paying for it now as he listened to his stomach growling to be fed.

Amon took his turn in line as he waited for his late night breakfast, and as soon as he loaded up his tray he took a seat at the table farthest from the door he had entered through. This was the same spot he sat in every night for every meal. What it was about this spot that appealed to him so much he wasn’t sure, maybe it was the nice view he had of all the other handlers. Or maybe it was the fact that he knew almost no one could sneak up on him without literally crawling on the floor underneath the tables. Which he didn’t think was a very appealing idea, but hey, you never knew just how desperate someone was until they had a sharpened spoon to your throat. That thought made him chuckle softly, and he could actually picture someone attempting to attack him with a sharpened spoon.

[Jilli]

Alessandra had finally finished up her chores for the night and gone for dinner. As a wher/dragon candidate now she wasn't sure of where she was supposed to be. Whenever she asked they always mumbled and waved her away. So now while she stayed in her room in the dragon candidates barracks she had dinner in a different place each night alternating between the two.

She had gotten through the line and wandered toward the back, standing in the shadows as she pondered where to sit. Soon a man had sat fairly close to her. Upon further inspection she was delighted to find it was Amon! With a blush that slipped up before she could control it she remembered the first time they'd met. Well at least this time there were clothes involved.

With a smile she took her Bowl in one hand an her spoon in the other, stepped up behind him nice and quiet. "hi Amon!"

[Akira]

Amon smirked when he saw a face that he would recognize anywhere. At least we have clothes this time. he shook his head as he thought about the first time he had met the candidate called Alessandra. He sighed and waited to see if she would come up to him, he raised his eyebrows when he noticed that she wasn’t coming from the front and smirked when he realized what she was doing. Hello Alessandra, I am surprised you remember me. His voice was soft as he whispered his response. He turned his head and looked back at her over his shoulder and gazed at her curiously through his dark brown eyes. It had been quite a while since he had met her in the baths, and since then he had learned that she was a dual candidate, which made him wonder what exactly the young woman would impress.

Amon scooted over on the bench and made sure there was plenty of room for Alessandra to join him at the table. So tell me, what do you think of being a dual candidate? He took a bite of the soup and the bread he had grabbed, and then turned in his seat to look at her and wait for her response. She didn’t seem like she had really changed much since they had met, and except for the fact that she looked extremely tired and worn out, she seemed more or less the same. The poor man wasn’t very good at discerning what exactly was troubling a person, it didn’t help that she seemed so tired. He wondered if all of the chores and lessons were really taking a toll on the poor woman. A small smirk crossed his lips when a thought crossed his mind. But he quickly shoved it to the back of his mind, saving it for a later time.

[Jilli]

She had to lean closer to catch his words and something inside her taunted her at the action almost as if to say,"yeah sure. That's why you're getting closer. what? He's whispering! It's perfectly normal to get closer when someone's whispering to you! . She smiled and rolled her eyes as she sat her own bowl of soup on the table.

"How many men do you think have seen me like you have? The circumstances under which we met make yours a hard...face to forget.". A flirtatious smile criossed her features. To have him looking at her like that, that intense stare of his, was almost enough to make her blush so she somehow managed to keep from it. " thanks." she sat where he'd moved to give her room.

Taking a bite of her warm soup she almost gave a little mmm. It was delicious .... Or it could have been that after a long day of nothing anything would be delicious at that point. She sat her spoon in her bowl and angled her position on the bench so she could face him more easily. He looked good compared to the last time she'd seen him. She could just imagine how she looked after a day of filling oil bottles and scrubbing floors.

" Oh you know." she gave a smile which fairly dripped with sarcasm. "Twice the chores mean twice the fun right? I think they should call candidacy what it really is. Slave labor for months while dragons or whets decide wether or not you're worth saving." her appearance, she was sure had been better in their first meeting. She wished she could have not seen him again until she had a partner of her own. For some strange reason, she wanted to make him proud, or at least have him know she wasn't a failure.

"How have you and amonsk been doing?"

[Akira]

Amon chuckled amusedly at Alessandra’s words. I must say, you have a point. He reached up and rubbed his chin with his hand, making it appear as though he was thinking about what he looked like. Though in all honesty he was actually remembering the night they had met. It had actually been a happy accident that they had met in the baths, though at the time he wouldn’t have thought that it was so happy. He raised his eyebrows at Alessandra when she thanked him, after all, he hadn’t done it for a thank you. He had done it so that she could sit down so that they could talk without him having to strain around to look at her. Oh well, she had thanked him and he had nodded his head in acceptance. There was no point in being rude to the person that was just trying to be nice after all.

Amon watched as she took a bite of her soup and started to speak. From the sarcastic smile she gave him he figured things weren’t going all that well for her. Slave labor huh? You know you could always just drop out of candidacy if it’s so bad. But then again, that means giving up the chance to impress. Though I guess you could always just be a wher candidate. After all, aren’t dragons over-rated? He raised an eyebrow at her as he spoke about the dragons. He would be quite happy if she gave up being a dragon candidate, but it wasn’t his choice. That was a decision she was going to have to make on her own. We’ve been good, working as usual. He smirked as he felt his brown wher start to wake up when he felt that his handler had been talking about him.

[Jilli]

He was surprised that she'd thanked him? She just smiled and ignored the heightened eyebrows. After all, she'd just been trying to be polite. When he answered her slave labor comment with the suggestion to drop her Candidacy all together it was her turn to be surprised. He then negated that himself and threw out the idea of becoming a wher candidate only. Could she do that? Knowing kayath had chosen her as a candidate and that her brother had bonded to his other half-a dragon. Could she really give up her chance to feel that bond?

She'd originally talked herself into dual candidacy to give herself the best chance possible at an impression. She hadn't originally been under the impression that whers were anything like dragons in the bond. She'd thought they were simpler, not really having as much emotional and personality diversity. Then a chance meeting with this man and his brown wher changed all that. But she still didn't think she could give up her dragon candidacy just yet.

" I think where's are underestimated. They're every bit as wonderful as dragons, and that's why I became a dual candidate. I think each person has to make a choice, but being a dual candidate I won't be forever indenting if my other half is a dragon or a wher. This way I'm sure".

She tilted her head questioningly at his smirk. " what's with that look?"

[Akira]

Amon didn’t know what it was like to be a candidate let alone a dual candidate. He had impressed Amonsk pretty much by accident and had never had the chance to experience such things. But he did know what Wherlinghood was like and he wondered if candidacy was anything like that. Well, he had a feeling that it must be a lot harder since you don’t have that constant companionship that one does when they are either a wherling or a weyrling. So he felt a little bad having asked her to give up her dragon candidacy now that he had thought about it. He was about to open his mouth and say sorry when Alessandra started talking again. He couldn’t help but nod at what she had said. She had a point, one that he hadn’t thought of before and was now cursing himself for.

Amonsk is starting to wake up, soon I’ll have to go on my rounds. Amon looked over at Alessandra and smiled happily as he spoke. It had become his habit to eat plenty before he went out on his rounds with his wher, and so he turned to his food and ate with gusto. He wasn’t sure if he would have the chance to eat again before bed in the morning, and he wanted to eat as much as possible while he could. He didn’t mean to be rude to Alessandra, but had a feeling that his renewed attention to his food might not sit well with the young woman. So he finished what he had in his mouth and after cleaning his mouth he turned back to her. Sorry, but a person gets hungry when their wher first wakes up. He smiled apologetically as he spoke and wondered if she was mad at him.