[d13.m9.t1164]No peace and quiet! (N'ean)

[goldenauthanth]

It was a quiet sombre evening, where most people sat down quietly staring at their drinks, not believing what the events of the day had brought. There'd been no mayjor dragon death this this mornings attacks, but it had been close.. thankfully, Randy and her green Rask had managed to chace the person as they hid in the watch wher's den..

The holder man's true plan had not been discovered, but he had been found to be carrying two pouches of a unplesent powder, one that had been found to cause illness in people.. and death in some animals.. results had shown that this substance had not been used yet, but it was still enough to shake those in the weyr that had been aware of it, this was one of the bigger scales of plans had come to light in the three years.. something else that urged the searchers onward to find a new location for the weyr..

...the quietness of the evening was broken by the screams, the shouts and the temper-tantrums of a weyrbrat in the lower caverns, his mother, a young green rider trying her best to control him.. quiet him down. It wasn't often that Zeltan was with Rizzie, the child, convienced as a way of 'breaking the rules' during her weyrling days lived with Sai, Evie and Siarie, and Rizzie had very little to do with him... until she felt that she needed to give something over... today was one of those rare moments..

...The child was breaking the sombre silence of the lower caverns, his screams and cries pearching through the silence.. causing some people anger towards him.. and over what? The fact that his mother would not let him leave to play with his friends and would rather he finish his dinner.
"Hate you!" The three turner snapped at his mother, and stuck his noise in the air, a stubborn child to say the least..

[LadyT]

N'ean had been one such person, sitting by herself in the dining hall staring at her drink as though it held all the answers. She wasn't quite intoxicated, but she was certainly starting to feel the effects of the wine. She felt Canorth's worry at her behavior in the back of her head, and sighed. ((I'm not going to get drunk again,)) she said to Canorth. ((That didn't go so well last time; I don't think I'll be doing that again.)) ((Good,)) her blue said to her. ((Because I didn't like it when you were all fuzzy.)) Unable to help herself, a small smile crept to her lips.

Just then, breaking her out of her quiet contemplation and small respite from the events of the day, she heard a child scream. 'What the..?' she thought as she looked around. When she spotted the source of the screams she sighed loudly. "Why is it that child never misbehaves so much when he's with Sai?" she said in a voice loud enough to carry over to Rizzie. That wasn't exactly true, but she hoped Rizzie believed it. N'ean had never really liked Rizzie, and the conception of a child during weyrlinghood just cemented N'eans dislike of the other rider. That was just something that wasn't done.

[goldenauthanth]

Zeltan continued to throw a temper tantrum, pushing the bowl of food far away as he possible could, continuing to point out that he didn't want each this food, and would rather be back playing with his creche friends, Nileod and Leyran. "I don't want it!" He hissed his face turning red from his anger. "I don't like it!" He then changed his verdict.

Her full attention was on the child, but not enough to miss the words that N'ean had put forward in her direction. Rizzie just glared at the blue rider. "Shut up, N'ean" She said strongly, her tolerence levels were already low enough with Zeltan's mis behaviour. "Zeltan, don't be ridiculous, you ate it all yesterday!" - Children!!! Why did she bother!

[LadyT]

"Just get ahold of your sharding child," N'ean said as she stood up with her drink and walked over to where Rizzie and Zeltan were sitting. She practically laughed when Rizzie tried to reason with the kid. As a former terror child herself, she was well aware that wouldn't work. "You would think that coming from a Hold, you'd at least be good at raising kids. After all, isn't that what holder women are raised to do?" Now she did laugh, sitting herself down close to the other two. If she couldn't get quiet, she could find a place to vent her frustration.

[goldenauthanth]

Rizzie's eyes narrowed dangerously at the blue rider's word, taking insult to what was said. Outside Rmaith gave a small warble at her riders feelings. Clenching her fists, she thought strongly with herself to not turn around and hit the blue rider, what type of.. picture would that show her child.

"Go find someone else to sit with." She said, her voice sharp, as her arm reached out and grabbed Zeltan whom was trying to shuffle off his seat and make a run for it. "Zeltan!" She shouted at the boy whilst pulling him backwards back onto his chair. "Eat your stew, one mouthful and then you can go."

[LadyT]

"I'm fairly certain this area is open to everyone at the Weyr," N'ean said getting a perverse pleasure out of Rizzie's misery. That saying about misery loving company; it was true. She looked down at Zeltan, though the words she said were for Rizzie's ears. "Yes, Zeltan. Your mother is attempting something called a compromise; a mistake I might add. You, m'boy, may end up more of a spoiled brat than our Lord Holder's daughter," she said making reference to Kalene. "Personally, I suggest continuing to refuse. Eventually she'll give up entirely and let you run wild."

A small part of N'ean told her not to pick on them, that the boy couldn't help who his mother was. She quickly shushed that little voice. She was sure most of the words she used were not in the child's vocabulary. Even if he did understand most of what she'd said, it wasn't her problem.

[goldenauthanth]

Thankfully, Zeltan did not understand. The boy was far to young to really understand what the female blue rider was telling her, although he was aware that she was talking to him.. and looked at her, quiet, as if surprised that this woman was actually paying attention to him at all.

Rizzie, however, wasn't aware of the fact that Zeltan could not understand. she didn't spend enough time with the boy to really understand what level he was at. N'ean's words gave her a challenge, she refused to let the blue rider win this fight with the child! The glare's look turned to daggers and Rizzie gave up being plesent. "N'ean, your presence is not welcome on my table, nor is it welcome within three sharding steps of my son, now, return yourself to your dragon, and leave me to deal with my child myself."

[LadyT]

"I'd have left you quite alone if you had, in fact, been dealing with your child," she said looking up at Rizzie with her own icy glare. "Frankly you are not welcome within hearing range of my table, but you don't hear me telling you to leave." She looked back down at Zeltan, and at the expression on his face. It was telling, she thought, that the boy seemed surprised an adult would pay attention to him. She bet his yelling and screaming was an attempt to get just that, attention.

"Now look here Zeltan," she said again talking to the boy directly, completely ignoring Rizzie for the moment. "You eat your stew or everyone here will hate you. You don't want that do you?" Perhaps it was a mean thing to say to the child, but right now she really wanted the kid to eat the stew and then leave. And if he did it when she asked and not Rizzie, well that'd just be a bonus in her opinion.

[goldenauthanth]

That was it, child or not, Rizzie was not going to have N'ean speak her to her son as she did. "Back off, N'ean" Rizzie said, standing up, for attention turned away from Zeltan. "How dear you speak to my son in such a way." She snarled.

[LadyT]

"Children need stern words sometimes," she said looking back up at Rizzie, but not moving. On second thought, though, N'ean realized that she had indeed been too harsh with the child. Well she'd die before she admitted that to Rizzie. Instead she continued on with the same line, but less meanly. "Well, do you like sitting with loud, screaming babies?" she asked Zeltan, looking at him again. She didn't wait for an answer; his answer didn't really matter. "Well I don't and I don't know anyone who does. Your screaming makes people want to leave. You want to be left alone?" Now N'ean was really trying to get through to him, and she hoped he understood her. The bluerider wasn't exactly the best at dealing with children.

((Why do you dislike Rmaith's so much?)) Canorth asked her, hearing her thoughts regarding Rizzie. ((Because she doesn't seem to care about anyone but herself, even her child,)) was N'ean's reply. Canorth didn't quite understand the problem there; he wasn't ever going to be a parent and thus thoughts about children didn't really concern him. ((She cares about her dragon, of course,)) Canorth said in an attempt to bring the conversation back to something he understood. Rizzie didn't reply; she rather thought that Rizzie didn't care much for her dragon either and this Zeltan was proof of that.

[goldenauthanth]

If Rizzie had been a different person, then she may have appriciated the support that the blue rider was giving her by addressing Zeltan as she did. But Rizzie was Rizzie, and this was N'ean, her worst enemy in front of her! She didn't appricate the imput and took at as a way of N'ean proving to her that she wasn't a good enough parent. "Eat up Zeltan. We've got places to be." She said, trying to get the kid to eat up faster so she could get away from the annoying person!

[LadyT]

N'ean stood up and looked right at Rizzie. "Do you want your child to end up a complete mess?" she said, directly accusing Rizzie of being a bad parent. "I rarely see you with him, and when he is with you he is a terror!" N'ean was getting quite angry now, not just depressed and annoyed. All amusement from the situation had dissipated; now there was just anger and frustration. All the pain that had been building up in N'ean over the turns had few outlets, and this was one. Perhaps it was unfair, but N'ean didn't really care. "So now here I am trying to have a quiet drink and you and your terror child come in here and disturb the entire caverns. Well, I'm not going to just sit by while that happens. If you can't sort out your own child, then someone else will."

[goldenauthanth]

Rizzie glared further, and stood up to her full height keeping eye contact with N'ean as she did so. Rizzie wasn't a tall girl, neither was she small, she stood at an average height and so keeping eye contact was not a difficult task. "Don't you DARE speak to me as you are" Rizzie snarled. "I don't see you with a child, and until you do, don't you dare think you can do better." She snarled. "you were not the one trying to raise a dragon and a child at once." She put her hands on her hips.

[LadyT]

"Yes well there's clearly more than one reason you aren't supposed to bed anyone while a Weyrling!" N'ean was expressing her anger freely now. Here it was; N'ean finally saying out loud exactly what Rizzie had done that bothered her so much. The bluerider stood up so that she was more-or-less at the same level as Rizzie. "And you don't see me with a child because I've had the sense to make sure I don't end up with too much on my plate!" The fact was, coming from a Weyr background, N'ean had no problem with insuring she didn't end up pregnant after a flight. "Either be a sharding mother to him, or leave him to the creche. After all, that's what the creche is for!" N'ean herself had spent much of her childhood in the creche, and in her opinion it was a better option than a bad mother.

[goldenauthanth]

"Don't you dare speak to me about my relationship with my dragon, when you clearly can't take notice yourself!" She said, her voise raising slightly. Rizzie always paid attention to N'ean and her extra drinking at the moment was not hidden from her.. even if N'ean wasn't getting drunk when she drank, didn't matter to Rizzie. "and neither can you talk to me about morals, if you don't have them then thats your problem, but it is my decision on if i want to murder a child or not.. "