Dragons Bring Us Together (1/2)

Writers: Avery, Heather
Date Posted: 29th January 2019

Characters: K'lvin, Riveenata
Description: Fate and dragons bring them together and tear them apart.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 8, day 12 of Turn 9

The Weyrlake was packed with dragons being bathed so K'lvin and
Xmrenth retreated down to the less populated beach. While K'lvin
stripped out of some of his clothing, Xmrenth charged through the
breakers and then fully submerged. K'lvin had always enjoyed bathing
Xmrenth because he found the physical labor of it therapeutic and it
allowed him time to think.

}:I think Savith is coming this way.:{ Xmrenth said to K'lvin, but
before the bronzerider could respond the dragon took matters into his
own talons, }:Savith, come bathe with me.:{

**What?!** K'lvin snapped upright and fumbled the scrub brush in his
hands, which toppled into the bucket of scrubbing sand he'd brought
with him.

They'd just come back from a routine sweepride, reported in the
results, and now Riveenata was looking forward to taking a dip in the
ocean and hoping the sea would help untangle some of her stresses.
They were flying low over the sea, her planning to head a little past
the main beach out to a point of tide pools and a rocky jetty that she
liked to sit on and watch the waves. She wasn't expecting Savith to
see Xmrenth and suddenly get distracted.

}:I will join you,:{ the green said in an eager tone, spreading her
wings to show off their color and span to full advantage and then
spiraling down to the bronze in the waves.

**Savith! Shardit! **Land on the surface, ** Riveenata ordered,
knowing what Savith actually wanted was to dive into the water and
then jump back up like a shipfish. She realized the green was just
going to drop right there into the sea with Xmrenth and not even let
her off on the beach, but at least she could swim in if Savith would
just let her down gently. When Savith landed on the water, kicking
limbs to stay up and spreading her wings, the greenrider rose up,
balanced for a moment on her back, and then dove into the sea.

She resurfaced after a moment, suddenly grateful she'd stopped by her
weyr after the report to remove Savith's flight straps and her own
heavy riding gear and change into a loose, light-colored sundress. It
was flowing around her in the water and getting in the way of her legs
a little but wasn't nearly as bad as getting dropped into the water in
wherhide would have been. As she got to the shallows she got her feet
under her on the sand then and walked out of the waves to greet
K'lvin. The sundress was clinging to her body now, heavy with water,
and more transparent.

K'lvin's mouth became impossibly dry as he watched Riveenata striding
out of the water, material plastered to the curves of her body, which
despite only having seen them the one time he remembered with amazing
clarity. He had recovered his scrub brush and now found his left hand
clinging to it, as if in reminder of what he was on the beach to do.

"I hope you had been planning on a swim," he finally managed to string
together.

"I'd been planning on one eventually, but I imagined I'd have a chance
to get changed first," the greenrider said wryly.

"We were originally going to a jetty area, oh a half-candlemark's fly
down the beach maybe? Then Savith saw Xmrenth and he invited her to
swim and, well. I'm just glad she landed on top of the waves to let me
hop off first and didn't just dive straight in like a shipfish like
she was thinking."

"That could have been a rude awakening otherwise," K'lvin agreed. "I
just brought Xmrenth down here for a scrub but," the bronzerider
looked out to where Xmrenth and Savith were now rubbing necks, "I'd
think I'd be drowned or squished if I tried."

"She was so rambunctious in the water as a weyrling," Riveenata
remembered. "I agree they are going to stay there for awhile. Unless
her youthful energy wears him out."

"He's not that old yet," K'lvin replied good-naturedly, but it was a
stark reminder of the difference in their ages.

"Oh, it's not that he's old at all. But it feels like she's got all
that young weyrling fervor still. We got in trouble...more times than
I ever imagined we could, because of her," she admitted.

"It's hard for me to imagine you being in trouble, well, except for
the time that you were grounded and if that hadn't happened we would
have gotten to know one another." That troubled K'lvin somewhat, the
thought that he wouldn't have known Riveenata, she would have just
been another greenrider in the Weyr.

"I can promise you that I was never, ever in trouble as a Candidate or
a Healer," she said, trying to look very serious and dignified, which
was difficult when her dress and hair were plastered to her skin.

"I was quiet and well-behaved and over-lookable. Really, it's all
Savith's fault -" and she stopped mid-sentence, eyes glazing, as
Savith very clearly made her opinion of this known. "It's her
influence that has made me more fun, she says."

"You? Overlookable? I have a hard time believing that," K'lvin replied.

"It's true, but thank you for the flattery. I'm glad we stand out a
little more now." Her gaze softened as she thought about all the
changes Savith made for her.

"Should we go for a swim while we wait on them?" K'lvin's eyes went
back to the bronze and green dragon, who were still inseparable.

"Absolutely."

She looked out at the sea, then down at herself, plucked at the wet
fabric clinging to her. The sundress was already soaked now, so she
could keep swimming in it, but then dresses weren't really made to be
swum in and might tangle around her. If she took it off now and spread
it on the warm sand, it might dry some before she had to fly back to
the Weyr, with the breeze cutting against the wet fabric - though it
would then get sandy and she'd have to go bathe.

**Ugh, Savith,** she thought again at the green who was unrepentant.

She started sliding the dress down from her shoulders, as she looked
at K'lvin and his bucket, and said, "I'm sure you can put the brush
and bucket down and nobody will disturb it."

**Brush and -** K'lvin realized he was still holding both of those
things, clutched tightly in his hands. He'd forgotten all about them!
"Yes, you're probably right," he said, tearing his eyes away to plant
the bucket down in the sand and then toss the brush inside.

By the time the bronzerider turned back, she'd slipped off the
sundress and spread it out on the sand. She'd kept her chestband and
underwear on. Riveenata was weyrbred and didn't have the modesty
taboos of the holdbred, but she felt an unaccountable frisson of
nerves at the idea of being completely unclad before K'lvin. It wasn't
something she would have thought about before Savith's flight, she
hadn't seen him in any kind of way other than a friend, but now...now
she felt a little exposed before him, and the two bits of fabric felt
like a shield against it.

"Come on then," she said, and started strolling back into the waves.

**Pick your jaw up and walk, bronzerider.** K'lvin scolded himself as
he followed Riveenata down to the water, eyes straying to her backside
only once... or twice. He couldn't remember having this problem before
Savith's flight. He and Riveenata had hung out countless times,
whether it be watching their dragons eat, playing a board game, or
sharing an evening meal in the Dining Cavern. Now there seemed to be a
leftover spark from the flight that he couldn't shake.

Once she was more than waist-deep in the ocean, she started feeling
relaxed by the water. She sank down to her chin and paddled around a
bit. "This feels a lot better when I've planned it, rather than I
have to jump in because of someone," she said with a laugh.

The bronzerider chuckled, "I think everything in life tends to be that
way. Better when you've made the decision, rather than being pushed."

"Metaphors for life, as imparted by frustrating greens," she said. "Has
Xmrenth pushed you into anything odd?"

**Hm, into winning your flight.** Not that it had been _odd_ no, his
memory flashed to soft skin and toned muscles. Definitely not odd.
Perhaps it was the fact that it had felt so _natural_ that had made it
odd. K'lvin shook his head, getting confused by his own thoughts, "I
guess not, other than mating flights."

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