Jade's pages, written around 2000
Jade is a young woman of 17 turns, standing a mere 5'2", but with long, slender limbs and a willowy frame. She has very pale skin, almost white, and doesn't tan well. Her hair is voluminous black, going to her waist and often tied back. Her eyes are jade green. Her face is very pretty, with small lips and even, smart eyes.
Her personality is that of a devoted friend. If she believes in something she will follow it to the end, and she is rarely seen in the company of folk who decieve or jest overly much. That is not to say she doesn't like jokes, but she rarely finds practical jokes funny in the slightest. Jade will defend the right, no matter the cost.
Jade's skills are all set up for defending a Hold or Weyr, with physical training and hunting being prime. She is skilled at target practice, as well as hand holds and hand to hand combat. She has a sharp eye for details, and is a very strong judge of character. She and Triia are very close.
It's been said, Jade belongs on a Green or perhaps a Blue dragon, her follower type personality aids well in wing moves and working thread fall.
"I knew it!" Jade called out, seeing a friend of hers from Dawnlight. "I knew you'd be here at Gallimim sooner or later!"
Taiver nearly leapt out of her skin seeing her old friend. "You've gotten paler, girlfriend!" Taiver said.
"And you've gotten darker!" Jade laughed.
"I thought Triia might be here too?" The dark and hugely built woman asked the raven haired Jade.
"I did too... Perhaps another clutch. I think she's enjoying the down time. The Protectorate is doing well and she's got the beasts to tend to... And us sometimes."
Jade looked around and didn't see anyone else coming. "Do you want to sneak a peek at the eggs?" She asked, quietly and with a smile widely on her pale face.
"You think that the queen would mind?"
"Well, she ought to meet us anyway, right?" Jade replied, happily skipping into the cavern where the eggs were hardening.
Moments later, before Taiver got a chance to enter the weyr, Jade came sprinting out, and was followed by an angry bellowing.
"I guess that means she would mind, doesn't it?" Taiver laughed, and the pair went to find weyrs close to one another for when their soon-to-impress dragons would be large enough to live alone.
It wasn't soon after, when things had settled a bit and the dragons had allowed the candidates to actually walk around the eggs, when Jade and Taiver were alerted to the rocking and motion of the eggs!
"They're hatching!" Called out the weyrling master. "Come soon! Grab your robes!"
Jade did as she was instructed, at a rapid clip! She ran to the sands, passing from foot to foot even with the sandals she had on, her feet could feel the pressing heat below.
"Look at them," she whispered to Taiver, who gulped and nodded herself!
Then, the eggs began to hatch! A few of them did so right away, but none of them were dragons for either young woman.
Then, carefully, almost reluctantly (gar! Bad pun!) a green of soft hue crept from her shell. She kicked away the last of it off her flowing tail, and spread her wings gently not willing to flap them as flamboyantly as others who had already started to dry. The green turned her head at the girls, looking over all of them with a calm, precise air. She passed by most of them, even giving a little snort of confusion over Taiver.
Then her golden-orange eyes went to Jade's appropriately green eyes, and the dragon's turned to approximate them!
You are for me. My name is Lravaath. I am hungry but if you wish to watch my brothers and sisters impress, I will be happy to remain here for a while. I am curious about your friend here...
The dragon spoke in a quiet, whispery but smooth voice in Jade's mind.
The pale-skinned raven-haired young woman suddenly did a buggy eyed double take!
"You -- mean -- and I -- we -- OOOOOH!!" She cried, suddenly out of her mind with glee and with the completion that Lravaath gave her.
They did indeed remain on the sands, off the main area, and in the cooler side, to watch Taiver! To read about her Impression go here!
If you think for a moment that I'm going to do that, you're crazy!
"I am not crazy, Lrav, every dragon does it."
Except me! I'm not going to! It's disgusting!
"Lravaath, I am SO tired of cleaning out this weyr. Your behind has got to learn to between, so I don't have to do this any more!" Jade stamped the end of the mucking shovel onto the weyr's stone floor. It made a sloppy noise, mostly due to the... rather large pile of dragon dung near it.
But ... between is cold. And it is scary.
"Would you rather be surrounded by your own poop than learn to go between!?" Jade was having a rather red-faced day... This dragon had chosen not to become 'trained' on the idea that her excrement must go between. It was almost as if she were clinging on to her hatchling days.
I will do it, Jade, but only if you promise to tell me where it goes.
"What?"
Where it goes! Is between one big huge dragon dung heap? I mean... If it is as you say, and all the dragons 'go' there... ICK! I don't want to! I won't!
Jade sighed heavily. It was going to be a very very long summer.
Jade knew that they would eventually ride in a wing, and she wandered through Blackstone looking for riders to ask about it.
She happened upon a small group playing cards, and sat in.
"You'd think that the weyr would have better heating," one of them said.
"But the plumbing is the best. I've got a full weyr."
"I can't believe you win EVERY time!" The other said, throwing down his cards.
Jade chuckled, and they both looked up. "Ah, sorry, I'll leave if I'm interrupting."
"No, no!" The slender red-headed woman who'd just beaten her friend said. "Stay. You a rider?"
"I am, Jade of green Lravaath." She extended her hand and the woman gripped it tightly.
"Say, I heard you have some good tricks with that dragon of yours. Would you like to go flying? Test out some new ones?"
"Could we? I'd love to!" Jade said.
We will show them what tricks will save their lives, Jade!
I know we will, Lrav! They're so excited, have we really built up this much of a reputation here in so little time?
I think so!
"Well, let's get going! Oh, I'm Jessie of green Zinnith. This is M'cri on green Lanneth. Kind of funny that our dragons names are so close. They're not even from the same clutch, are they!" She laughed loudly at her own joke. "We're both in the Sea Blessed Wing here. All greens and blues, you know. Let's go."
The dark man shrugged. "You two go on. Lanneth is asking me if I'm going to oil her tonight... Always with the oiling... I'd make a pool and fill it with oil if I thought she'd use it..."
Jessie and Jade went down to the bowl's entrance, and both green dragons circled about. Jessie nodded. "Yeah, I have seen her. You two are really talented. I've asked H'dar to check into you guys."
"Check into us? Why?"
"So you could be one of the wing Seconds, that's why! H'dar has been looking for someone for sevendays now, and I think you're going to be great at it!"