Not just her Imagination.

Writers: Eimi, Roxanne
Date Posted: 30th September 2005

Characters: Knara, U'kaiah
Description: Knara and U'kaiah wake up together after Hydrazineth's flight.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 7, day 3 of Turn 3

U'kaiah half groaned as he rolled over, his arm flopping lazily over the body beside him. He was still exhausted, but the sweetest kind of exhaustion he could imagine. The bronzerider smiled a bit as Kalamath echoed his feelings - smug satisfaction.

Knara could feel her dragon's contentment and smiled as the man whose dragon had won her green's flight put his arm across her. She liked the feel of someone next to her even if she would have preferred it to be a certain wingleader beside her. For the life of her, Knara couldn't remember anything about the previous night's flight other than she had thoroughly enjoyed the mating after the flight. The winner's name seemed to elude her and she didn't quite want to roll over and see who it was just yet.

She would rather just imagine that it was U'kaiah, but that would be unfair to the rider beside her. Reluctantly she interrupted her dragon's slumber to inquire as to who was beside her. She should at least pretend that she remembered who had won the flight. **Hydra dearest, Who won your flight?** she asked as she tried to remember who had been there besides her wingleader without much luck.

}:Kalamath. Is that not a good thing? You've been thinking of him this entire time and not known that was who you are in bed with?:{ the green asked catching her rider's thoughts as the information set in.

Knara tried her best not to blush and replied, **No it is good. Very good, I think.** With an excited grin, the young greenrider rolled over to face the bronzerider and said, "Good morning, U'kaiah. Did you sleep well?"

The bronzerider smiled at her. "Yes, very _very_ well. And you?"

"Quite well. I'm starving as always after a flight. No matter when her flights are I wake up almost ravenous."

"I'm pretty hungry myself," U'kaiah replied with a grin. "I have to say, that flight was sharding exhausting! There has to be food somewhere. Stay here and I'll see if anyone thought to bring us something."

"Allright. Where are we, anyway? Apparently we never got as far as my weyr." Knara asked getting a good look at the weyr they occupied as she sat up.

"Ah, this my dear is a flight room. I have to admit," rather smugly too, "that I rarely make it back to anyone's weyr."

"Too much passion to think that clearly? Then of course, that's why these rooms are here." she said with a soft laugh. Sometimes she must seem like a complete wherry with her silly questions about the most practical of things.

"Well, it's either that or we would have ended up in a closet, or a storage room. Or maybe even some stranger's weyr. Now wouldn't _that_
raise a few eyebrows!" he chuckled as he brought in the plate someone had been kind enough to leave for them.

"It's happened before." Knara said remembering a story her mother used to tell her about her father's first flight.

"Well, not to me. _Yet_," he smiled as he crawled back onto the bed, plate in hand. "Your food, madam."

"Me either. Thank you, wingleader." she replied with a grin.

The bronzerider chuckled and shook his head. "I think, since we are in a flight room and all, that you can call me U'kaiah if you like, Knara."
He handed her a piece of citrus fruit.

She took the fruit and said with a nod, "Thanks, U'kaiah." She bit into the fruit as soon and wiped the juice from her face with the back of her hand. She was still having trouble believing that she was in bed with her wingleader. It wasn't the fact that he was her wingleader that bothered her, but rather that she had liked him for quite some time.

U'kaiah smiled at the voraciousness with which she attacked the fruit.
He studied her for a moment. The fact that she was not afraid to dig into her food like so many women was amusing, and refreshing. Too many girls made a show of being dainty, proper, or even seductive as they ate. Knara seemed to be straight forward about eating, and perhaps about everything. He reached out and wiped a drip away from her chin.
"You missed a spot there."

"Oh, thanks. I really shouldn't eat citrus fruit in bed, it gets everything so sticky, but it tastes so good." she said finishing off the fruit before pouring herself a mug of klah. "Want a mug?" she asked.

"Sure," he said with a chuckle. The bronzerider had woken up in the flight room with men he was not interested in, women who were not interested in him, and a few women who seemed more interested in sleep than anything, but Knara was the first to be more interested in _food_.
"Do you want me to see if I can find some _real_ food?"

She handed him the mug as she replied, "That was enough to stave off the hunger for awhile. Apparently I take after my da when it comes to food.
Do you feel like a swim or would you prefer to go back to bed?"

U'kaiah fought back a chuckle, but couldn't hold back the smile. "Um, I think I will need to way the options carefully. A swim would be refreshing, but bed would be warm and comfortable. Which would you recommend?"

"Being that it is the morning after a flight, I am all for going back to bed." she said as she leaned over and kissed him. Something that she had been wanting to do for a long time and not while under the influence of a flight. It took U'kaiah by surprise, but it was certainly not an unpleasant one.
His fingers wrapped themselves around the back of her neck as he pulled her closer, enjoying the felling of her lips and the taste of citrus fruit on her tongue.

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