Those Reallly aren't Teeth part-2
Ji'n steps out from the Weyr's living caverns.
Oh, but there are teeth there. Because coming out to the bowl, the two young men will find themselves face to face with the brown Kzydnth, a hulking barricade frustrating the paths of many people while his overbitten muzzle hangs, ready to meet the ones he's been toying with. Once out, all the mental imagery disappears, and there's just that big, homely brown. And from behind Daegan, Ji'n is squinting hard in the light. "Right, so that's Dyz..."
Daegan tilts his head a bit to the side and he shakes his head a little as Smoke, the blue on his left shoulder, tries to burrow into his hair, "He won't eat you silly." Though Daegan really doesn't seem to sure of that as he eyes the brown dragon, "Hi there. High Reaches duties to you." he says to the brown, trying to be polite, despite the antics that have been played in his head. Daegan doesn't touch the dragon, nope, his hands are behind his back as he tries to edge around the dragon a bit.
Kzydnth would much rather not let the cook pass, and makes a point of side-stepping, a giant, ochre-tinged claw blocking the path Daegan seems set upon following. "He's got a question for ya," Ji'n states, amusement growing in the brownrider's tone. One wouldn't think he'd just had his hand stuck up and been unable to find his own way out of the caverns. "Y'can keep tryin' t'get by if y'want, but it ain't gonna work. He's too big an' if y'make him move too fast, he might squish yeah. He's not so graceful on th'ground."
Daegan does stop at the giant claw blocks his path and he chews on his lip a bit, "A question?" is Daegan's response as he turns to look at the rider for a moment, not sure exactly how to take that. He then looks back at the brown, head tilting for a bit, "I guess I can answer a question from a dragon, though I don't much recall one ever having a question for me before." The cook responds, waiting in silence after that last comment.
"Y'can' answer this one," Ji'n states almost blandly. "He just wants t'know if you're gonna come back t'Ista with us an' stand for Jeyth's clutch. He's pretty sure if y'can walk through 'the gaping maw of a giant beast' then you'll do a'right on th'sands." And with a wicked smirk, Ji'n specifies, "S'long as y'don't tick Jeyth off, anyway. 'Cause then, y'might just get eaten. An' careful with Raeklith, 'cause he might squish ya just playin'. 'Specially if y'get 'round him an' Dyz when they see each other, they been like that since they hatched."
You sense that Kzydnth adds a flourish of sparkly black sand to be seen beneath the chosen cook's feet, sparkling, almost blinding at times, and hot, hot, hot.
Daegan blinks a bit and he tilts his head to work through the comments, "Well I don't see why I can't, not like I haven't seen a hatching before, so I know what happens, to a point, at a hatching." Daegan says after a few moments thouight, a smile crossing his face and Drizzle gives a cheerful chirrup as Daegan nods, "Do I pack up, or just go with you?"
Ji'n gives a skeptical look to the cook. "Well, 'less y'wanna be wearin' those 'xact same clothes all candidacy... Though if you're lucky you'll get some really awful uniforms like we hadta wear t'wards the end, when I was standin'." A look up to Kzydnth, a pause, and then back to Daegan. "We can wait. He shouldn't give ya any trouble goin' through the caverns. An' if he does, well, seems like y'can deal with it just fine anyway, huh?" And a broad grin is flashed.
Daegan chuckles a bit and he nods his head and heads into the caverns to get his gear, not taking too long it seems as he's back in about 15 minutes with a single duffle bag, "I don't have much, moved a lot when I was a little so we all learned to pack light." he says as he's got the duffle slung over one shoulder as he walks back into the bowl. Daegan's also wearing a wherhide jacket, a little short in the arms, probably borrowed t be returned by another rider when they come to Ista for something.
When Daegan returns, Ji'n is laughing at something that he and his brown are watching, way up on the rim. But eventually Daegan is noticed (his talking helps), and he nods. "Right. Good. So hop up - careful, his 'ridges sorta pinch ya in important spots," and Ji'n gropes his groin to demonstrate, "an' we'll head back."
Daegan nods his head a little and he slings the duffle by the strap, across his back and he hops up and grabs the riding straps to help him get on board. He's not an expert, but he's been on a dragon a time or two so he's careful not to hurt the brown as he gets into position.
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You climb over a meaty shoulder to wriggle in between Kzydnth's narrow 'ridges.
Kzydnth is hardly the one that ought to be worried about pain at this stage. And so Ji'n mounts up after his fresh-Searched candidate, and before long, they're going up, waaay up... and blinking between.
Ji'n climbs over a meaty shoulder to wriggle himself between Kzydnth's narrow 'ridges.
You take off.