¥Raialka¥

Irritated cheeps sounded in the slim girl's ears as two little flits tried to wake their caretaker. Glittering green eyes opened to take a peek at the two little tormenters the girl quickly covered her face with her nice n' fluffy white pillow as she mumbled something about breakfast having to wait.

_________________________________ The larger of the two flits, a young blue with a hide the color of a mid-afternoon sky, stuck his wedge-shaped head under the pillow and gave a nip to the girl's ear. With an irritable growl the girl swatted at the little blue beasty who quickly retreated to the edge of the bed, chattering angrily as his faceted eyes whirled with reds, yellows, and oranges. _________________________________ Amused at the blue's failure the smaller emerald green flit

moved forward and snapped up a lock of black hair that stuck out from beneath the pillow and gave it a good hard yank. Once again the girl lashed out with an irritated swat but the little green menace was undaunted and merely gave another yank on the lock of hair. _________________________________ With a thud the sixteen-turn-old young woman rolled out of bed onto the mess of covers on the floor. "Alright! Alright! I'll get you some breakfast!" the girl shouted at the little flits. Every morning they got her up before dawn saying they wanted to eat, but she knew it was just to torment her for they hardly ate when she did feed them in the mornings. Raialka, for that was the girl's name, had a feeling they ate fish all night while she slept. _________________________________ Groggily Raialka brushes out her long black hair, she never could keep herself perfectly nice and neat...her hair always seemed to have tangles in it but other than that she was a very clean individual. _________________________________ As she padded softly down the hall she could already hear the other residents of the weyr up and about and occasionally caught a few phrases about the coming hatching of gold Veralineth's clutch. The gold's clutch... that's why Raialka was at the weyr, she had been searched out by blue Pinemith and his rider, N'lok. _________________________________ It seemed so long ago that she had been back at the Hold... and a babysitter. She had not been a drudge but her aunt and uncle who had taken her in after her parents had died. They had always insisted the girl was useless for anything but watching the little Hold brats. _________________________________ Day in and day out Raialka had done the work of a drudge, plagued by such pleas as "Alka! I'm hungry!" and "Alka! I want my mommy!" All the good-for-nothing adults at the hold had done was gamble and do other 'more important things' than spend time with their children. _________________________________ Thinking back Raialka felt a bit guilty about leaving the little ones who had watched and waved sorrowfully as the bluerider lifted her onto his dragon's back and took her away to a better life at Talor Cliff Weyr . They weren't to blame for what their parents did. _________________________________ Raialka hoped to herself that the children would be okay as she ate breakfast, the two little flits feasting beside her. But onward to bigger and better things! There was a gold's clutch to be Impressed!

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