Merinon

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Merinon sat sedatedly in the saddle, eyes half closed, brain drifting among the clouds high above the planet Pern, lulled by the clip-clop of his runner's hooves. By the first egg...what a boring day it had been! He had taken his runner mare out into the woods to get away from the infernal racket at the hold...but now it was far too quiet. Duskydawn, the silvery-white runner mare, didn't seem to mind though...she would much rather just plod along through the forest than anything.
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Merinon let out a sigh as he drowsily scanned the woods for any sign of other creatures besides he and his runner. And that's when it happened, a large shadow swooped overhead. Duskydawn reared onto her hindlegs, neighing in fright. "Whoa girl! Whoa!" Merinon yelped as he pulled back on the reigns. But the runner wasn't to be calmed, she dropped then reared again throwing her rider off to land hard on the ground below.
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"Deadglow horse..." Merinon muttered, cursing to himself as he pealed himself from the ground and brushed himself off. The young man yelped as a shooting pain ran through his shoulder. Wincing from the pain in his shoulder the young man raised his eyes and looked about in the sky for what had startled his runner. .
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Seeing nothing the young man shook his head and heaved a sigh. "I don't believe that runner! Afraid of a large Wherry!" Merinon huffed and began to head off in the direction his runner had gone when he heard a man's voice. "Not a wherry, a dragon!" the man said with a laugh, stepping towards Merinon to where Merinon could tell that he was a dragonrider by his wherhide clothes.
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"A....d-dragon!?" Merinon stuttered. A dragon! No wonder his runner had been so frightened, he felt rather bad for getting angry at it now... "Yes," the dragonrider said with a nod. "And Dharnath has Searched you... I'm his rider, R'tek," the dragonrider--R'tek--said with a smile, offering Merinon his hand. .
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Merinon shook the dragonrider's hand, stuttering out another sentence. "S-s-searched!?" he gasped, unable to believe his ears! He was going to be a dragon candidate at Andromeda Weyr!

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