"Hello there. My name is Bonnie. I was a candidate at the Ranax Dragon Adoption Agency. I impressed a beautiufl dragon there. Come in....take a seat." She motions to some wicker chairs with furs laid over them. "Usually I am better prepared to greet guests but today I'm making a new set of straps for Treth....She just grew again and is now a wonderful, beautiful adult! Leather working is lots of fun, I'm so glad to have a special talent like this. I'm the only one here at this weyr who has talent in leathercraft, so I've decided to try to get my master degree. I'd get a high paying and ranking job then! All the better to help support my dragon, Treth. I've been here quite some time now. I have stood for at least three hatchings but no dragon ever chose me! It's a wonder I was searched in the first place." She looks sad for a moment but continues, "I came from a large hold. My mother was a weaver my father a leather worker. I worked hard at what I studied and I thought I was to spend my life there but then on that magical day when the two dragons came. The blue and green dragons who came and took me and a few other people away. I was only 16 at the time. Now I am 18 turns old and the rider of a grand green dragon. The Ranax adoption agency needed people who will look after the dragons they bond. I've heard that many dragons have died! I think that's just horrible...I'll never do that to my dragon. As a candidate I had to help other dragonriders bath and feed their dragon from time to time...since I've been here so long I know I'm really ready to take good care of my own. Not that I'm bragging or whining. Would you like to see my baby now? She is a green Ranax dragon. In Ranax the female color roles are reversed. The green dragons have the status of our Pernese queens."
