Use Your Head

Writers: Avery, Heather
Date Posted: 12th April 2019

Characters: Irrkali, K'lvin
Description: Irrkali checks on K'lvin after his trip to the infirmary
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 10, day 6 of Turn 9
Notes: Mentioned: Urlene, Riveenata

Irrkali had been checking in on one of the weyrlingstaff assistants
who'd been injured during firestone prep. While in the Infirmary,
she'd heard mention between two Healers about K'lvin and a heart
scare. She hadn't known he'd been seen there, and that pricked her
attention and irritation. Shouldn't her old friend have told her that
something was wrong?

**I need to give him a piece of my mind,** she thought.

}:Xmrenth, is your rider awake? Mine wishes to drop by,:{ Jeath said
to the bronze.

}:My rider is in the midst of -:{ Xmrenth didn't even have a chance to
finish before a greenrider stalked past him at amazing speed.

K'lvin himself was just pulling his pants up and buttoning them into
place when Irrkali stepped in. "Ah, Irrkali, I have missed the way you
arrive."

"It's the advantage of us being at the same weyr. Xmrenth knows to
move for Jeath," she said. "So, what's this I hear about the
Infirmary?"

"Ah, that," K'lvin grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his head. "My
heart felt a little funny when I was taking my morning jog so I went
in, just to be safe. Turns out it was just a combination of my diet
and some medicine I had taken."

"You're not getting dressed to get away from me, are you?" she asked
sweetly, leaning against a wall casually.

"No," K'lvin laughed, "if you would rather we have this conversation
with me naked, just say the word and I'll take these clothes back
off."

"Just making sure you're not running away before I'm done yelling at
you. Though I won't say no to getting an eyeful." She dropped into a
chair.

The bronzerider grinned as he took the chair beside of her. "Get on
with your scolding now," he nudged her knee with his.

"You'd better not die on us. Who would win Jeath's flights next? Who
would terrorize all the young ones doing watch duty for the first
time?" She joked.

"You're sure it was just medication and exercise and you're not going
to die on me?" It was meant to be acerbic but her worry showed
through.

K'lvin sobered a little. "Urlene said I wasn't, dying, that is. The
hard drinks that I like to share with K'ran, or A'kades, have to stop
though. That, paired with the exercise I was doing, and adding the
medicine on top of it, was a bad combination. I honestly just didn't
think anything about it, it's the way I've lived for Turns. I got up
with a headache from drinking a little too much during dragonpoker, I
took some powders for the headache, and then I went out for a jog."
The bronzerider shook his head. "Urlene was quick to remind me that
I'm not normal anymore, that those things aren't things that I can
do."

"Please tell me you're not planning on sitting around here telling
yourself you're not normal and your life is over because you can't fly
Thread or have a hard drink," she said.

"When you're grounded some day from Threadfall, and the things you
like to do, we'll see how you feel." K'lvin snorted.

"It wouldn't feel great," she said, because she couldn't deny the
truth of that. "But you're not dead yet. You're still a man who can
walk, and speak, and use your hands. Or your head, either of them,"
she teased, making a rude gesture at his pants.

K'lvin laughed. "Ah, yes well, I'm better at using one than the other.
I'll let you guess which."

"I know the answer to that one. It must have killed you when they
banned you from flights and liasons, taken away half your intellect,"
Irrkali said with a snort. "So tell me, how are you and the young
greenrider getting on?"

"We're not," K'lvin said honestly. "I ended it."

"Shards and shells, K'lvin, why? I thought she was making you happy."

"She was," he sighed, happier than he'd been in a long while. "It
wasn't fair to her, being with me. Who knows what might happen with my
heart?"

"Did you ask her if she was willing to run the risk, or did you just
cut her out?"

"I know she would have been willing, that's why I cut her out." K'lvin
said, although there was much less conviction in his words than when
he'd spoken to Riveenata.

"To make her hurt now so you don't hurt her later? Wow, that's sure
original."

"She's young, she'll find others and it will be for the best." At
least, that's what he'd told himself.

"If you say so," Irrkali said. Her tone was dubious. Internally, she
decided she was going to seek out this greenrider and see what the
girl who seemed to have caught K'lvin's heart was actually like.

"So what are you planning, then? More time with the girls?"

"Yes," K'lvin said, it was what he had told Riveenata too. "I'm just
going to focus on staying as healthy as possible, doing as much work
as I'm allowed, and spending time with Kaliha and Kylena."

"Time with your children is always rewarding," she agreed. "And I hope
you'll find your duties will get to expand soon. I mean, the Healers
aren't telling you you can't leave, right?"

"No, Urlene said I can continue with my duties as a retired rider, as
long as I'm less stupid going forward." K'lvin lifted his eyebrows as if
to say that might be impossible.

"She doesn't know you very well then, hmm?" Irrkali asked, her lips
quirking with a smile.

K'lvin laughed, "Not at all."

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