Betrayal I See

Writers: Chelle, Emma
Date Posted: 1st May 2013

Characters: Rhosyn, K'sedel
Description: Rhosyn and K'sedel speak to each other and things deteriorate.
Location: River Bluff Weyr
Date: month 1, day 15 of Turn 7
Notes: Mentioned: Reeva, N'vanik; Notes: Follows Turned Away

K'sedel

She had not gone down to breakfast even though she was returning to light duty. Rhosyn had gone straight to her office. She had not appeared for midday meal either. If the Weyrleader was perceptive, he would figure out that she was angry with him and was patently ignoring him for as long as she could. It was childish behavior, but she didn't care.

Still, Rhosyn was trying to stay as calm as she could so that Orlaith was calm as the eggs grew inside her. The last thing she needed was an upset dragon. So she buried herself in work. All the hides that had piled on her desk were
now being methodically looked over. Once she had been at it for five candlemarks straight, she stood up and stretched her back, wincing when the still-healing skin hurt.

K'sedel knocked at the office door. Whether or not she wanted to speak to him, he intended to have this discussion. Clearly, she hadn't realized just how many people had been affected by events, and he felt the need to try to make that clear, if she'd listen.

"Come in," came the automatic reply before she reached to pour herself some water. Wondering who it might be, Rhosyn brought the glass to her lips and took a few gulps. Seeing K'sedel enter, she hurried to drink the rest, not looking forward to this at all. She didn't move, only watched him from where she stood.

"I had to tell him," he began.

She was going to give him a chance. If he had any sort of explanation as to why that had an ounce of merit, he might have a brick to stand on. Otherwise, she had made the decision that she really couldn't trust him.

"N'vanik was really worried about you. He was concerned that you were really ill, that something major was wrong." With what he knew about events at Dolphin Cove, given that K'deren had kept him informed. "He thought that perhaps you might have taken that slightly longer trip /between/, and something had gone wrong."

The man hadn't said as much, but there were some things that you could see in a person's body language and their expression. "Shardit Rhosyn, he cares about you."

"I care about him too, but you promised me you wouldn't say anything except to the folk I wanted to know. And you broke that promise. If I had wanted N'vanik to know, I would have told him what was wrong. I had already told him, through
Orlaith, that I was fine and he didn't have to worry-that I needed to rest." She was holding the cup very tightly. "The healer said I needed rest and it would be better if I wasn't bothered."

Reeva had even spoken with N'vanik but he hadn't trusted what the healer had told him, nor what Rhosyn had told him-going to K'sedel. And K'sedel had broken the promise he made. That was the issue at hand. "If you told me not to tell someone something-something that was your personal business-I would keep that promise."

"It was better that it came from me- if he'd carried on trying to get in to see you, the whole Weyr would have known and what would that have done for your reputation, and that of this Weyr and his Weyr, because it would have got back to them." He tried to meet her eyes, "Rhosyn, it kept the situation from getting out of hand, and stopped rumors developing. I gave you back some control over things."

"So you're telling me....You are Weyrleader of this Weyr and you couldn't demand enough respect from N'vanik to tell him to leave, knowing he would go?" She was listening now and thinking this through. This was his Weyr and if he couldn't defend it-even from other Weyrleaders.. Her hazel gaze focused clearly on him and her stance became less vulnerable, changing as her incredulity showed on her face.

Most goldriders were used to being deferred to and usually got their way for most of their career-if not all. Rhosyn, on the other hand, had been suffocated and ignored for many turns. As a Weyrwoman, she would never allow that to happen again. And she didn't like the idea that her Weyrleader had allowed it to happen to both of them.

"You don't get it, sometimes it isn't about demanding respect." He shook his head sadly, "Making a scene, and demanding he leave was the wrong way to deal with someone in his state."

"I'm not saying that you had to demand that he leave. I'm saying if it had been me-I would have told him I was fine, things were being taken care of, he had nothing to worry about, he should go home, and if anything changes, I would let
him know. You didn't have to tell him-circumventing my personal privacy and what you had promised me-what was wrong." That had been her expectation of K'sedel, which he had obviously not followed through with.

"Trust me, it was not what he wanted to hear."

"What does it matter what he wanted to hear? He was not the one whose wishes were most important. I was the one hurting, healing, and recovering. I was the one who needed to be left alone. Reeva, as the healer in charge, told him
what he needed to know." As Weyrleader, K'sedel did have the authority to supersede the crafters in certain situations, but Rhosyn didn't want to create a pattern of challenging the autonomy and authority of the Weyr's healers when they knew best in most situations.

"Think about it, you know what happened over at Dolphin Cove, and how much disruption they had over there with their goldriders. For his sanity, for the sake of his Weyr, and Pern, we needed a stable Weyrleader who wouldn't be distracted by worry." K'sedel attempted to meet her gaze. "He's been through enough, let him have one thing less to worry about."

"What's done is done and it can't be helped." Obviously K'sedel thought he had made the right decision. "Still, now I don't feel I can trust you to consider my needs or even requests I make of you since you broke a promise you made to me. You put the needs of Dolphin Cove and its Weyrleader above those of your Weyrwoman." They had to work together for another turn and she knew this, but that didn't mean things were going to be as they were. "How can I follow you K'sedel when I can't even trust you?" And there she was, once again, thinking it was so much easier when she just had to rely on herself. She didn't even mention the fact that N'vanik was no longer talking to her so in reality his plan had backfired-severing the closer relationship between the two Weyrs and their leadership.

"It was the needs of Pern-Do you seriously want another tragedy over at Dolphin Cove because of a distracted Weyrleader? My granddaughter lost her mother in that one, and you could lose a good friend, possibly someone who is more by not telling him."

He was making her out to be the bad guy in this because she didn't want her personal business known to everyone? Was she supposed to feel guilt for something that might have happened because of something she had no part in? "I would think N'vanik is a much stronger man than that."

"Then clearly you don't know him as well as you think."

"Maybe I don't, but right now I don't feel I know you well at all." At that moment Rhosyn didn't want to continue the conversation. He wasn't going to budge. She wasn't going to budge.

Last updated on the May 2nd 2013

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