[20.9.1164] Death and Disaster! (Attn: Any)

[LadyT]

Kalene and Zunith were at the new Weyr, exploring their new home. Shimmer was also exploring Izoku, but not with the other two. ((We could really do well here,)) Kalene was saying to her brown. ((If you could just catch Authanth, we'd be set.)) Zunith wasn't quite sure why his rider wanted him to catch the gold so badly. He'd chase her or not, but Kalene talking about it wouldn't change whether he tried to mate with the senior gold or not. As of yet, Zunith had never chased a gold, sticking to the occasional greenflight. He just didn't have that same mating drive that bronzes did.

The brownrider, for her part, couldn't figure out why her dragon wasn't more enthusiastic in becoming the senior male dragon. She tried to explain to him how great it would be if he were actually above the bronzes in the Weyr, but he just didn't get it. Kalene was beginning to get somewhat frustrated with her dragon. Why couldn't he just do what she wanted? She walked plateau in silence, Zunith flying above her.

After a few moments of silence, Zunith decided that a few tricks and pranks might cheer his rider up. After all, he loved pranks and he loved his rider, so the two should go together well. He just didn't know what a good prank would be. Then he knew, not a prank really but a trick. He would pull back behind her then between so that he was in front of her. He could do it; he knew he could do it. It would be so astonishing that Kalene would stop thinking such annoyed thoughts and she'd praise him! He knew he wasn't supposed to go between without proper visualization from his rider, but since he could see it all right here, he figured he'd be just fine.

Kalene had no idea what her brown had in mind, or she would have stopped him. As much as the dragon frustrated her sometimes, she loved him. The brown gave a dragon giggle as he fell behind his rider. Kalene stopped for a moment, puzzled. "What?"

Look what I can do! the brown said before popping between. "No wait," Kalene shouted, but far too late to be of any use. A second passed, then another, and Kalene looked around intently to find Zunith popping out of between. The brown did appear, but far too close to the ground. He had severely misjudged his altitude and now he was falling toward the ground. He started to panic, and Kalene tried to keep calm, telling him to just pull up and it would all be alright. Zunith tried, but far too late to make any difference. The young brown dragon plummeted right into the cliffs, and suddenly Kalene felt a great emptiness where Zunith had been.

Kalene collapsed, unable to stand after such a shock. Grief like nothing she had ever felt overcame her and she gasped for breath that would not fill her lungs. The only thing that prevented her from jumping off the cliffs at that moment was the fact that she could barely move. Her gold flit, Shimmer, appeared beside her, keening her distress at her Pet's loss. The gold might not have had the closest relationship with Kalene, but she didn't like seeing her Pet so torn by loss and grief. Moments passed which felt like ages. And then Kalene could breathe, and the sound that escaped her lips was a horrific scream.

OOC: Yes she just got her dragon...but that's why it's more fun to take it away. I'm evil. Lol.

[goldenauthanth]

The keen that came from Authanth took Taenia by surprise..what on earth had happened? ((Authanth?)) The woman asked, unable to fight the tears that came to her eyes at the grief she felt and the dispear that another dragon was lost..

{{It is Zunith}} Authanth replied finishing her keening for one of their lost.. one of the younger dragons.. Kalene, what had happened? Taenia thought, making herself move.. there were very few dragons over here perminately at the moment, most people were still making the first moves toward situating themselves here perminantly. She hoped that ARdalae and Kolteya were strong.. because they would need to be back at Igen, dispite the distance the dragons would know Zunith was gone..

Taenia left her office, going in search of Shayna..she'd need back up, just incase Zunith's death had been due to some type of attack.
...

[Katlyn]

Descanth's keen startled her rider on the island. Another death. How could they possibly experience another death?! It made no since to the greenrider who was there now to supervise the candidates in their work. ((It is Zunith...)) she told her rider, who groaned softly. She'd never gotten on entirely well with Kalene, the girl's "holier than thou" atitude grating at her nerves, but even she wouldn't wish a dragon's death on the girl. Still, who knew how the girl would handle such a thing. But. . . no, the real thing she needed to worry about was the why. Why was Zunith dead in the first place.

((Candidates are to report to Mine immediately,)) the green passed on to the candidates who were there. Lorina's mind too had jumped to the possiblity of an attack. She'd assumed they'd be safe there, but there was no way to know, not now, not yet. And if there was an attacker on the island, then she needed a head count immediately...In her mind, one of the best ways to attack the dragons was to also attack those who had been Searched to Impress those dragons.

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Cheyenth cried out pitifully when she felt her brother's sudden death, the green's keens sharp amongs the others. Such dispair shot through Seleti sharply and she stopped in her dead in her tracks, the same dispair causing tears to form. "Kalene...." she mumbled quietly, sniffing as those tears fell freely. Where was her clutchmate? She needed to know, and Cheyenth told her. On by the ledges...So that's where the greenpair headed to.

They landed nearby, the idea of attack not even in her mind as she dismounted her green and slowly walked towards the screaming rider...no former rider. "Kalene...sweety?" she said softly, trying to get the other girl's attention.

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Alastriona stopped dead in her tracks when the dragons there began their keens. She'd been working on the construction, as the candidates were assigned. Hearing Descanth's voice in her mind startled her as much as Canorth's had the day she'd been searched, but she wasn't going to disobey now, heading quickly to the small buildin that had been set up for the candidatemaster and knocking on the door to report, hoping that there were no new suspicions towards her as a result.

[LadyT]

Kalene didn't notice anyone near her, continuing to scream, gasping now as she again lost her breath. A person could only scream so long before they had to stop and breathe. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. At any other time, the Lord Holder's daughter would have worried at her appearance, but just now she didn't care. Shimmer was hovering around her, trying to comfort her and failing. There wasn't much the flit could do.

Finally the screaming stopped, and the former brownrider looked up to see Seleti there, though she didn't recognize her. She dismissed the other person as unimportant. What she wanted was to die, but she was still having trouble getting her body to move. If she could just stand up, she could throw herself off the cliffs. Then she remembered the other person there, and when she looked at Seleti again she recognized her. "Help me die," she pleaded. She had to join Zunith; surely Seleti would understand that.

[sorra]

Josiath threw her up when Zunith went between. The golden dragon keened at the loss of a dragon. Her eyes whirled as she added her voice to the others.

Shayna jumped up from her desk in surprise, instantly regretting it as she felt a bit dizzy. Jo?

Zunith is no more, the queen told her rider.

Shayna started. No, couldn't be. What could have happened? And why? Zunith had been one of the few to survive the quake and she was thankful her dragon couldn't remember that. Josiath had suffered enough. The queen rider sighed softly and quickly walked out of her weyr. She needed to find out what was going on. She stopped in surprise when she saw Taenia.

"Taenia?" she asked.

[goldenauthanth]

Taenia was releived to see Shayna. "We need to find Kalene." Taenia said firmly. "We need to find out what has happened..." She said in the way of explaination. Clearly upset, as many of the other riders would be.. but she had her 'weyrwoman' head on...serious and professional.

Mine, Cheyenth's has her.. Authanth cut in. they are by the cliffs

"Seleti has her...by the cliffs" Taenia said in a way of explanation, and turned to flee in that direct. Cliffs were far to easy for one to comit suicide, and that would be what Kalene wanted.. Taenia had delt with far to many people who had lost dragons to think anything different.

[Katlyn]

Seleti balked at the idea. Yes, she supposed she understood the reasoning bebehind Kalenes desire to die but the thought of helping her die was something the former raider girl doubted that she could do. ((Mine needs help....Zuniths wants to die but she doesn't want to let her and she doesn't know what to do,)) the young green said to the two golds for surely they would know what to do.

After a moment of standing there somehwat shellshocked the greenrider shook her head. "What about your lovely Shimmer there, Kalene? She's still there, trying to comfort and love you," the girl pointed out weakly as she took a few hesitant steps towards the girl, hand out reached to place a tight hug around her. "There are many here who love and care for you...We. don't want to loose you too my dearest friend."

[sorra]

Shayna's face was a bit pale as she reached Taenia. The older gold rider was trying to figure out what happened. She nodded. "We better hurry," she whispered. She looked at Taenia in shock. "By the cliffs? Oh no." That wasn't at all good. Kalene wouldn't be thinking. She would just want to join her dragon and she had the perfect opportunity being by the cliffs.

[goldenauthanth]

"We need a healer" Taenia replied simply. "Do you think you could go and find Eodira? She's over here somewhere..." the weyrwoman replied. "..and i know seeing a dragon right now won't help Kalene, but if you and Jo could bring her over..." Taenia knew they needed to move quick... she was sure that it would only be a matter of time before Kalene took that jump, no matter what Seleti did. [[Authanth, tell Seleti that I am on my way...]] Taenia said quickly, hearing her gold pass the message onto Seleti's green, and with that Taenia ran..as fast as she could towards the place where Authanth said Kalene was.. she needed to be quick..

..running was probably one of the last things she should do in her condition, Taenia thought to herself, putting a hand on the slight bump on her stomach, her and mac's secret.. they'd told no one yet.. it was never the right time..

[sorra]

Shayna nodded. "I'll find her," she assured Taenia. "And Jo and I will come as quickly as we can." The gold rider spun on her heel and raced off to find Eodira. She knew she was going to regret this come later. She hated being sick all the tine, but there wasn't much she could do about it. Of course she was happy. Not that she had told anyone but R'bao and Macira, but she'd face that later. Right now she needed to find Eodira.

[LadyT]

Oddly enough, had Kalene and Shimmer's relationship been any closer, the poor gold probably would have betweened by now. The former rider was completely ignoring the flit, but Shimmer didn't give up trying to help Kalene. Though she was quite close to madness, Kalene wasn't so far gone to actually believe the words that Seleti had used. She knew how the other people at the Weyr felt about her. "Love me? Dearest Friend?!" Kalene said in a high-pitched, nearly hysterical scream. "Zunith loved me! That's all." Kalene found the strength to try to push away the other rider. She didn't quite make the connection that if she could now fight against the other rider, she could probably make her way to the edge of the cliffs. Instead another plan formed in her mind...she'd force Seleti to kill her. So with that in mind, Kalene took a swing at Seleti, hoping that the other rider might fight back.

[Katlyn]

The girl had figured though that maybe those words would help, at least some. Her experience with the girl hadn't necessarily been great, but she never felt herself as quite annoyed and disliking the girl as others, that was certain. Now she simply pitied the girl who most in the weyr disliked. "Kalene, we do too," she insisted again as she was pushed away. The greenrider inwardly sighed and due to a mere moment's distraction didn't see that swing until it landed, pushing her even further back with a startled look on her face. ((Hurry! Zunith's is trying to fight Mine,)) the green called out to the golds again, even though she'd already been told they were on their way.

Seleti regained her balance in time to counter any second strike that Kalene would send her way this time standing in a more defense posture as she glared at the girl. "You do not want to try and fight me, Kalene," she warned quietly. No she wouldn't hurt the girl, at least not intentionally, because she knew the girl's frame of mind was far from normal, but surely even in that distraut state she could remember that the rider who stood before her now was of the same clan as D'verado, was a former raider as well. She could certainly stand her own against the lord holder's daughter.

[Mik]

Duncanth keened softly as he traveled with the rafts for a mark before resuming duties between the two Weyrs. Zunith, was the only thing the dark brown said and he and his rider mourned briefly of the loss of a young dragon such as he. Below him, he saw Outlath's huge form land in the water nearest one of the Weyrling rafts to comfort the young ones in the loss of one of their own. After notifying the others flying with him, Duncanth skipped Between to the new haven to find the route of the problem...

[goldenauthanth]

{{We come}} Authanth tried to reassure Seleti's green, as Taenia ran as fast as her condition would allow her too.. thinking of only getting to Kalene before she could do damage. It was Authanth's sound of greeting to Duncanth that alerted Taenia of the Weyrleaders arrival to the island weyr.. something she was very lad of indeed. Someone to back her up, and add he strength and get involved where her condition wouldn't allow, especialy if Kalene was getting violent..

...Taenia arrived within moments of Duncanth and M'cleods arrival back to Iszuko, in her eyes.. his timing could not have been better.

[LadyT]

Kalene stood up shakily as she saw Seleti take up a defensive posture. The Lord Holder's daughter might not know anything about fighting, but she could tell when someone was getting ready for a fight. This would work out perfectly, she thought. She took her own fighting stance, unskilled and uncoordinated as it was. It didn't matter; this was a fight she was planning on losing.

Just as the now dragonless young woman was about to rush the greenrider, Taenia arrived. Now there was two people, and Kalene's crazy plan was unraveling. Or at least it was in her mind. What was she supposed to do with two people up there? Should she change and charge the Weyrwoman instead? But then, Seleti was already set for a fight. Which would be more likely to get the job done?

At the moment any sort of logic was impossible. With a wild look in her eyes, Kalene glanced from Weyrwoman to greenrider and back. "I'll take you both on," she nearly growled, hoping that might make one of them rush her. Maybe she didn't need to choose at all...maybe she could taunt one of them into attacking her.