Adequate

Writers: Aaron, Halyonix
Date Posted: 24th June 2026

Characters: C'uren, Z'renh
Description: Z'renh tells C'uren about his misadventure with Katora in the flight room.
Location: Dragonsfall Weyr
Date: month 2, day 21 of Turn 13
Notes: Mentioned: Katora

It had been too long since Z'renh had made the time to catch up with C'uren. It was not always easy to run into each othet when they were not in the same wing. But as luck would have it, they both ended up in the same place at the same time for lunch that day.

And as luck would not have it, Z'renh was still unable to put what happened (or did not happen, he supposed) with Katora out of his mind.

"Hey," he greeted C'uren as he sat down across from him. "Can I ask you a completely wild question without it being weird that it's the first thing I said to you today?"

"My friend, I _love_ weird and wild questions," C'uren answered with that same unabashed grin. "Hit me, bro."

"You've won flights before right? Have you ever ended up with someone who didn't enjoy it?" asked Z'renh.

"Oh, no, my friend, everyone has enjoyed it!" C'uren bragged. "There was one time I woke up with _two_ greenriders. Now _that_, my friend, that was a treat." His eyes lit up with mischief. "Are you having trouble in the flights?" he asked with a wiggling of eyebrows.

Two!? Was there nothing C'uren could not do? Despite his unease at what had happened with Katora, Z'renh could not help but smile, even laugh a little at C'uren's eyebrows.

"No, not the flights. Just one flight. I ended up with... well, maybe it's better not to fly and tell, but I ended up with someone who didn't have a good time. A _woman_, even, so it wasn't just because it was some Holder who still can't get it together about liking sex with men."

"Oh, ho! Did she not enjoy the virility, the stamina of a bronze's rider?" C'uren teased jovially.

"I don't know about all that," said Z'renh. "But, my friend, she most certainly did not enjoy all this." He gestured to himself. "And to think I had started to believe I was actually kind of good at it."

C'uren looked confused. "What?! How could she not? I have seen the Z'renh and the Z'renh is not lacking! Were you drunk? Don't tell me you tried those mushrooms that the Holders think will make you as hard as a bull. That, my friend, is absolutely whershit and you should not do those. All they do is make you urinate in a different color."

Z'renh could not help but snicker.

"While I'd love to hear the story of how you know that, for now, I'll settle for no, I wasn't drunk or enmushroomed. It was a flight, even!"

C"uren snorted. "Are we sure the problem was you? You know that there are quite a few Holdbred greenriders out there that haven't had a chance to discover all that there is to flights and fun."

Z'renh resisted the urge to reveal that Katora had been a trader. They had all been in the same class together-- he would surely pick up on who she was eventually if he gave anything else away. The whole idea was not to out her, so giving away more information was counterproductive.

"Maybe that was part of it," said Z'renh. "But I even offered to go down on her, and she said EW!"

To that, C'uren's laugh was machismo. "A woman who doesn't want her own pleasure?" He waved his hand dismissively. "My friend, if she doesn't say yes to you helping her out, then _she_ is the one who should be worrying, not you."

"Maybe she likes girls and hasn't figured it out yet?" Z'renh speculated.

That got some excited snapping out of C'uren. "Maybe! Maybe she just needs a few lady friends to come over and show her the ways. And then, maybe you can ask to watch?" C'uren winked incorrigibly.

"While that does sound exciting," Z'renh admitted, "I have a feeling she wouldn't be interested. Especially not in me coming along for the view. We're not friends or anything." They were wingmates, had been classmates, but that was not the same thing.

"I don't suppose _you_ know anyone who's into that sort of thing, do you?"

The glint in the brownrider's eyes was comically lewd. "Women with other women or women with other women and a man involved?"

"Beggars such as I can't be choosers, can we?" Z'renh laughed. "I'll go wherever I'm welcome."

C'uren clapped a hand on Z'renh's shoulder with a laugh. "Let me put out some feelers, my friend, and get back to you! Plenty of parties to be had and not all of those happen in the Dining Hall. But don't you worry about your lost little greenrider! I am certain that you are quite adequate in bed and she is just confused." He winked in emphasis.

"Here's to adequate." Z'renh lifted his hand in a pantomime of a toast.

The boisterous brownrider laughed. "To adequate!"

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