A Night to Remember (4)
Dragonsfall Weyr
Amber Hills Hold
Vintner Hall
Healer Hall
Hidden Meadows
Dolphin Cove Weyr
Dolphin Hall
Emerald Falls Hold
Harper Hall
Printer Hall
Green Valley Hold
Leeward Lagoon Hold
Barrier Lake Weyr
Sunstone Seahold
Citrus Bay Hold
Writers: Yvonne, Sia, Heather, Avery
Date Posted: 12th February 2025
Characters: D'kere, J'nus, Aydhan, K'ran
Description: K'ran, Aydhan, J'nus and D'kere discuss what happens next after Kapera's attack
Location: Barrier Lake Weyr
Date: month 2, day 7 of Turn 12
Notes: Mentioned: K’lvin, Rasme, D’hol
K’ran listened to the updates and thought about where the moving pieces were - Rasme and K’lvin with the weyrlings, Aydhan and a Healer on their way to the Weyrwoman’s weyr, D’kere and J’nus there. Would the Healer be able to do enough and stabilize the Weyrwoman there - would it be worth him meeting them there - or would they want to meet at the infirmary instead, take up one of the side rooms in the building to talk about what needed to be done next while they waited for the details?
It seemed such a silly logistical question to worry about where to have a meeting that would define the next few hours, days, sevendays, but - well, he’d lived through the fall of River Bluff and he remembered how the smallest most inconsequential things flitted through the mind. The ways you thought about all the little things to avoid thinking about the big bleak horrors facing you.
Like the fact that the Weyrwoman’s dragon was dead. Kapera might be dead. If she lived, she still wasn’t the Weyrwoman. And what could have caused this horror?
}:Is the Weyrwoman being taken to the infirmary?:{ Rogueth asked Tymborikath. }:Are leader riders meeting in the council chamber or meeting there?:{
Tymborikath's voice was warm but distracted, more focused instead on directing the dragons that were ferrying people home, }: She's stable and moved to the Infirmary. If you want a meeting, it should be there. J'nus and D'hol won't go far from her.:{
}:My rider will be there. Simply tell me how to aid you,:{ Rogueth replied.
K’ran jogged to the hospital building - didn’t take long given where he had been where this started - while giving Rogueth a few orders in his head. By the time he got there, there were two riders at the building door ready to check everyone who tried to enter. They nodded and let him through.
A healer with brownrider knots greeted him and said, “Staff are meeting in a mindhealer’s office. You look pale, sir - shall we send water in?”
“Yes,” he agreed - it would give him something to do with his hands.
He walked into the office-turned meeting room and readied for what was ahead.
Aydhan was already in the office, sat in the chair normally reserved for the master healer that typically frequented it, a mess of hidework that wasn't hers pushed aside that the crafter likely wouldn't appreciate. She didn't get up when K'ran entered, just looked up at him tiredly. Her elbows rested on the desk and a hand on her forehead. "The healers are cautious but hopeful." She said instead, wanting to get this all over with. "She'll physically recover, if she wants it."
“She’ll do it. She’s a fighter.” It was D’kere who joined in on the tailend of Aydhan’s report. “Sir, I’ve the man who attacked Kapera, Zaverin, in an examination room. The healers are working on him presently. It’s probably best if…” he glanced between K’ran and Aydhan, “if J’nus doesn’t know about it. For now.”
"Agreed." Aydhan said quickly. "Do we know anything about him?"
K’ran sank into a side chair, processing the news. “I assumed her wound was fatal or close to it and that the healers wouldn’t be able to stabilize her.”
Or else why would Riyanth have gone /between/? That she might wake up to know what happened to her… Would it be kinder if she didn’t know? If she just slipped away without waking up to know she was half a person?
“Why shouldn’t J’nus know?” he asked.
“I saw the end of the fight between J’nus and Zaverin, if you can call it that. J’nus intended to throw Zaverin off the ledge to his death. I’m afraid if J’nus knows he wasn’t successful that he’ll rectify that mistake. I think we need to keep Zaverin alive, if at all possible, so he can be questioned about his motive.” D’kere answered K’ran first before turning his eyes to Aydhan. “Right now, Zaverin is touch and go. There’s a lot of blunt force trauma. The healers are doing what they can.”
Aydhan frowned, not sure what to make of the information. "Zaverin?" She repeated.
“So Zaverin hurt Kapera, J’nus caught him and tried to kill him, and you intervened. Now the healers are trying to save him to figure out the motive.” K’ran knew he was repeating what D’kere said, but it helped him make sure he understood everything.
“If he survives, we can interrogate him. Until then, we can look into his records to find out more about him.” He’d been approved to transfer into the Weyr, but who’d done the approval, what did his records say, was anything falsified…
“If we know it was him, are we concerned about other culprits? Are we going to let the people who are currently here go?”
“I don’t know that we can plausibly hold all of the guests. If one of them is connected to the culprit, I doubt they would confess. Only Zaverin will be able to tell us if he acted alone.” D’kere’s normally relaxed face was hard and grim.
"The event was outside. We moved fast, but if anyone else was directly involved they could have just walked away. Zaverin was living here, surely he didn't have anyone with a getaway carriage." Aydhan said, though she turned to D'kere, "Has anyone searched his quarters yet?"
The door swung open again and J’nus staggered in, still dressed in bloodstained clothes. He sank into the nearest chair and stared at the tabletop, not meeting anyone’s eyes or addressing the sudden, thick silence that had fallen at his entrance.
D’kere glanced at J’nus and then addressed Aydhan. “No, there hasn’t been time yet, but I’ll make sure that happens.”
**Tell Aydhan that someone needs to question Jeyme as well. I think she and Zaverin were _together_.** D’kere instructed Kenirath, who obediently passed the message along to both Rogueth and Tymborikath.
}: And keep that between us all too.:{ Tymborikath replied, }: Mine will, Rogueth, if Yours can't. :{
Aydhan's eyebrows raised as the message reached her, then glanced over at J'nus. A hand settled on his shoulder. "You don't have to be here." She said gently.
It wasn’t that long ago that he’d thrown a man off a ledge. No wonder he wasn’t welcome. J’nus rubbed his hands against his face. “I need to know what… is happening next.”
D’kere looked to K’ran. Even though he wasn’t the Weyrleader, he still felt like the natural person to see to a crisis. There was something calming about the small bronzerider. Maybe it was because he’d been their leader while the Weyrhold was being built. Either way, D’kere’s personal opinion was that K’ran would have a much more level-headed approach to handling the situation than D’hol. It was good that the Weyrleader was handling the current security of the Weyr and the visiting dignitaries.
}:My rider served with hers and would like to be there for that meeting,:{ the bronze told Tymborikath.
K’ran looked at J’nus, searching for the right words. As a Wingleader, the man ordinarily was key to leadership emergency response. As the Weyrmate to the attacked party… he understood and sympathized with the man but wanted him out of the discussions.
“What’s next for the Weyr as a whole is we’re going to get the non-Weyrfolk out of here and get the situation under control. Right now, we need you to stay with Kapera. When she wakes, you’re the only face she’ll want to see. You’re the only one who might keep her here long enough to talk to us about what happened before you arrived.”
Which was true, but sounded cold and clinical. He softened his tone. “If it was reversed - if it was Saidrene lying there, I’d want to be with her, and I would be trusting you to handle the rest of the situation.”
The idea of it being his greenrider made his throat hurt, and he promised himself he’d check in with her in person as soon as they could. A brush of his mind to his dragon’s and - }:I would tell you if something happened to Ashareth’s rider.:{ the bronze said reproachfully.
J’nus took a few moment to process the words being said, then nodded. They weren’t going to banish him from the Infirmary or lock him up in a cell far from Kapera’s bedside, and that was all that mattered for now. “Thank you,” he said quietly.
“I’ll walk with you to the infirmary,” D’kere volunteered. “I’d like to check on my Weyrwoman, as well.”
J’nus pushed himself up from the table. “If you want.”
Aydhan rose as well, "I should see if D'hol needs any help. Keep me posted on any developments, everyone. We'll get through this."
}: Tell us how it goes with the healer, Rogueth. :{ Tymborikath added.
Last updated on the February 24th 2025