About a Girl

Writers: Heather, Suzee
Date Posted: 21st September 2019

Characters: R'enh, K'yne
Description: K'yne goes to R'enh over Saibra's odd behavior.
Location: Dragonsfall Weyr
Date: month 12, day 23 of Turn 9
Notes: Mentioned: Saibra, Erivana

R'enh

K'yne

K'yne did not normally interrupt his Wingleader. Despite what might
have seemed like an odd leadership team on paper, K'yne actually found
R'enh very easy to work with and had no trouble following whatever
orders his Wingleader gave him. As a Wingsecond, the brownrider did
his best to make sure that his duties were taken care of with no
additional help from the Wingleader required.

Today, however, there was something on his mind, and despite his
attempts to never bring up personal things with R'enh, this thing was
personal, and it had to be asked.

"Wingleader?" he asked, knocking on the man's open door. "You have a minute?"

"K'yne! Come on in," R'enh smiled and put down the transfer request
he'd been reading. "What can I do for you?"

"I need to talk with you for a minute, I wish it was about Wing
related things, but it's, um... Saibra, actually." K'yne said, closing
the door and sitting down.

R'enh sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Hmmm yeah," he said.

His Wingleader's reaction made K'yne feel as though R'enh might have
an inkling where the conversation was going to go. "She been acting
weird lately?"

"Yes," he said. "I asked her to go see J'lor. Maybe he'll be able to
help. I don't think I'm getting anywhere with her and it worries me."

K'yne nodded slowly, taking that in. "She showed up at my weyr last night."

R'enh blinked then smirked. "Did she," he chuckled.

The brownrider shook his head slowly. "I've known her for nearly all
of her life and I have never seen her as frantic as she was last
night."

"I was a bit unkind to her about her weight," R'enh admitted. So it
didn't surprise him that she was frantic as K'yne described. "I'm
sorry, I was just hoping to shake her out of this obsession with her
weight."

K'yne exhaled a pent of breath. "Oh good, that's why she was that way.
She threw herself at me and nearly ripped my head off when I kept her
at arms-length." He had thought that some event must have triggered
her unusual behavior.

"I just don't know what to do. She's got some notion in her head that
she's fat, and she's anything but." R'enh shook his head.

"She said you told her to see a mindhealer. I told her she should
listen to her weyrmate and do that." K'yne shook his head. He had
never been able to reason with Saibra so he had no advice on that
score. "Just.... Don't give up, I guess. She clearly takes what you
say very seriously because let's face it," he arched an eyebrow, "I'm
like the last person on Pern she would normally proposition."

"Yeah," R'enh chuckled. "I'm surprised you let that go." He shook his
head. "I don't know that I could have in your shoes."

"I can't say that I didn't have second thoughts," K'yne grinned. "But
that sort of thing is what got me in trouble with Saibra the first
time Turns ago, and I try to be a man who learns from his mistakes.
Also, Erivana has moved into my weyr while she's pregnant, so there's
that."

R'enh smiled. He was quite at ease with K'yne and not at all
possessive of Saibra. He knew he loved her and she loved him back.
That was more than many riders ever got and he was content with it.
But his worry over her weight was a different thing altogether. "So is
Erivana weyrbred?"

"She is," K'yne answered, thinking back to the conversation the two of
them had when Saibra had left.

"Well that makes things easier," he said. "How is the pregnancy treating her?"

"She is weyrbred, but very shy and ... innocent, surprisingly." K'yne
answered. "She finally seems to be over the majority of the morning
sickness, so that's good."

"Oh yes, there are those out there," R'enh nodded. "Young too I take it?"

"She's twenty-one, but Arinoth won her green's flight right out of
weyrlinghood." K'yne said.

R'enh looked at his 'second for a moment. Something about the way he
talked about the girl. "Sounds like you might like this girl," he said
seriously.

K'yne rubbed at one eye. "Well, I might, but she's so shy that I'm
having the hardest time trying to get to know her. You would think
living together and having a baby together would make that part
easier, but it hasn't," he chuckled.

"Nothing seems easy," he agreed with a sigh. "Just keep trying I
guess," he shrugged.

"If women could just say what they felt or what was on their mind,
that would be nice."

R'enh chuckled. "And did you always speak your mind to a girl when you
were twenty one? I know _I_ didn't."

K'yne's brow furrowed. "I've always spoken my mind.... Maybe that's
why I've been alone all these Turns," he laughed, a genuine sound that
rarely came from the broody brownrider.

R'enh laughed too. He was happy that K'yne had the opportunity to
really make a family even if it took a little effort. "We all change,"
he said. "I never really had a serious weyrmate until Saibra. You can
do this."

"Well, I thank you for the vote of confidence." K'yne said as he
pushed to his feet. "For what it's worth, you are the right person for
Saibra."

R'enh's face stilled and his eyes turned serious. "Thank you K'yne,"
he said. "That means a lot coming from you. And... thank you for all
those turns you took watching over her and her kids."

K'yne gave a jaunty little salute. "And now I think my watch is over.
Have a good evening, R'enh."

"Have a good evening," R'enh smiled. Perhaps sometimes things worked
out in the end.

Last updated on the September 23rd 2019

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