Bash That One Too

Writers: Len, Paula
Date Posted: 26th November 2010

Characters: Uetia, Jaylene, J'nne
Description: Uetia and Jaylene relax on the beach and talk about relationships, men and violins
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 12, day 7 of Turn 5
Notes: Mentioned: Sabonus

Jaylene

Uetia rose from the sea like some sort of creature from abyss. She flipped
her wet hair out of her eyes and waded to the beach, where Sirjath was
curled up for a nap. She picked her towel from Sirjath's tail ridge. She
didn't mind being a towel-rack. She nodded a greeting to some other
dragonriders who had gathered to beach to enjoy the afternoon. To Uetia,
who loved swimming, this was perfect way to relax after day of drills
and duties.

"Hey babe, who you showing off to?" Jaylene asked. While her half
woman/half dolphin friend had been splashing about in the water, she
had taken the more sensible--and lazy--option of sunbathing.

"I don't show off," Uetia said and sat next to her, wrapping the towel around her.

"Oh yeah, that's me!" she teased her friend. "I'm just jealous I can't swim like you."

"Well, maybe I was hoping certain candidate/seacrafter was watching," Uetia said and actually blushed.

"Ooo! Where is he?" Jaylene glanced around for the familiar broad
shoulders of Sabonus. The wind had picked up and tossed her long hair
over her face, so it wouldn't have been any surprise if the young man
was around and she hadn't seen him.

"Working, on that ship," Uetia pointed a ship anchored outside the weyr.

"Bloody shards, woman! How can you tell he's all the way out there?" She squinted in the general direction
where Uetia had pointed, but she could hardly see anyone on the ship.

"I swam to it," Uetia admitted. She had also gotten few cat-calls from the seacrafters.

Jaylene mock hit the other woman. "You should have told me, I would
have come along as well. Nothing like a rough and ready seacrafter."

"I'm sure they'll come shore later," Uetia assured her with a
grin. She liked Jaylene, liked that she was almost as tall as she was
and could handle Uetia's rather direct approach to life.

Jaylene grumbled before laying back against her Reanth. The dainty
green reached around and shyly begged for an eyeridge scratch from both
women. As she obligated her lifemate, Jaylene asked, "your fella, he's
standing this Clutch as well, isn't he?"

"That's the idea," Uetia said. "I don't know which I worry most, that he doesn't Impress or that he does."

"Yeah, why's that?" She laid a reasurring hand on her friend before
adding, "you'd better stratch Reanth before she_really_begs." Indeed,
the small green was beginning to nudge Uetia a bit harder.

"Well, if he does, there's weyrling ban, if he doesn't, he won't stay in
the Weyr," Uetia said and started to scratch Reanth. Her green was
oblivious to the world, she noted after a quilty glance towards
Sirjath.

"Pfft, the Weyrling ban isn't_that_bad and trust me, look at who you're
talking to. If I survived the ban than anyone can." Jaylene's
reputation preceaded her by miles. "And that's always going to be
better than him leaving and you having a hard time meeting up. That
sort of thing happened to J'zen when he and some lad he was in love with
were Candidates. It lasted all of a few sevendays after the boy left,
so trust me, you won't want to be thinking that'll work."

"Well, no one knows what will happen, so I really shouldn't waste
time worrying over it. Cross that bridge when it comes, " Uetia said and
streched.

"Yes! Exactly." Jaylene liked to only think of life in the here and
now. Wondering about a future that might never occur seemed a waste of
time and brain power to her. Her little brother J'lan had always been
looking and living in the future and look where that had gotten him? A
brief shadow crossed her usually cheerful face as she thought about her
dead sibling.

"Do you have someone special right now?" Uetia asked.

"Me? Me?! Are you having a laugh? Me, tied down to one person?"

Uetia did laugh. "Sorry for asking stupid question."

Jaylene harrumph and rolled her eyes at her friend. In all her turns of
being a dragon rider she had never once settled in with a mate for more
than two weeks. "Life's too bloody short to be tied down to just one
man. Just look at all the pretty boys around us, girl, why be beholden to
one?"

"There are certain advantages for having just one," Uetia
said and laid down to her back. She would never bee like Jaylene,
switching men like socks. She'll either have one or none.

"What's that, you'll never get insomia?" She teased Uetia

"Well, you can always ruin the other one's sleep too. Besides you can do
things other than sleeping," she grinned. Her mind could conjure several
options for what to do in bed that weren't sleeping.

"Yeah well, you're like J'zen. He's keeps looking for 'the one.'" She sat
forward and gathered up her things. "That reminds me, I told Jayonne
I'd re-string his violin with gut instead of the wire he's got on now.
You staying on the beach or do you want to come along?"

"Don't let me anywhere near delicate instruments like violin. I would
probably broke it," Uetia snorted. "But I could head for dinning cavern
for bite to eat."

Jaylene laughed. "They're stronger than they look, violins. But
don't worry. Maybe if we're lucky Jay'll give us a jig or two whilst we
eat." Eyeing her lifemate, she asked, "you coming too?"

The green's answer was to yawn and curl up tighter to Sirjath. Jaylene
watched her for a moment, admiring her sea green hide against Sirjath's
darker skin. Reanth was smaller than Uetia's green, just the way Jaylene
liked her.

"Well, that looks like we're walking. And I did break one violin when I
was a child. Our hold's harper made the mistake of handing us
instruments. I bashed it against my brother's head, if I remember
correctly." Uetia chuckled.

"Brilliant! I should have tried that on my brothers when I was a
Harper." Jaylene thought about the boys whilst she walked with Uetia. "My
mother would have shoved me /between/ if I had ever tried that stunt.
You ever see your brothers anymore?"

"Some of them, G'el mostly, since he's also a rider," Uetia replied.
"Dad didn't think it was brilliant, he had to pay a new one for the
harper."

"Yes, well that would be the reason I never did that as
well. Except it would have been my mother that would have killed me!"
She sighed happily as they entered the cool stone walls of the Weyr.
"I forgot all about G'el, I never see the lad, how is he?"

"Fine, he is the bane of all Far Island's greenriders," Uetia grinned.

"If he's in need of some comforting..." she winked at her friend.

"Next time he comes to visit, I'll send him over to you. You should have
fabulous time, since you share the same attitude to sex," Uetia said.

"Tell him to come over tonight! I'm going to be a lonely
girl this evening." She waved at her tall brother when they entered the
dinning area.

"I think he has Thread Fall today, so he can't," Uetia said, remembering his schedules as well as her own.

"Too bad." Seeing the case propped beside Jayonne, she
groaned. "No wonder you conned me into re-stringing this beast! Does
mum know you have this thing?" Jayone only grinned and waved hello to
Uetia. Jaylene explained, "this horrible violin he's got has a whole
lot of sympathetic strings under the finger board. Bloody great...I'm
going to be at this for hours!"

"I didn't understand a word," Uetia grinned humorously.

"Ugh..you're smart to have bashed that violin all those years ago," Jaylene muttered, giving her sibling a dirty look.

"Hiya Uetia," said Jayonne, grinning like he had done nothing wrong.

"Hi, Jayonne. I can bash that one too if you ask nicely," Uetia offered.

The boy looked mock horrified. "Step away from the violin,
lady, or your dragon gets it. And I know where your weyr is too." He
grinned and wagged a finger at her.

"I just ask Sirjath to fall asleep on you, then we'll see who gets it," Uetia shot back and grinned.

"I'll play her a tune so lovely she'll not be able to do it and will keep me as her personal pet."

"Not until I string this thing," Jaylene quipped. She stared at the
string box and sighed. So many fiddley little strings to get in there. "You boy, go get me and my friend here some food and plenty of beers."

"You play her, she won't ever woke up," Uetia predicted gloomily.

Jayonne laughed and left to get food for the girls.

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