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Katrien & Alain
Katrien stretched her body on the
warm sand of the beach. She sighed happily and turned on her back. With
closed eyes and halfway to sleep, Katrien pondered about how fast the time
had gone.
One day you were on earth, getting a beautifully romantic ‘Will you marry
me’, the next you’re off to another planet for the wildest life of your
ride. Isori and Eraerla were wonderful, but the dragons had brought so much
work with them that marrying Alain had been postponed until now. However,
having dragons also had it’s pros. After all, how else would they have
gotten to this wonderful island for their honeymoon? Lantessama it was
called and Katrien wouldn’t mind staying here for a while longer, or at
least come back when their honeymoon was over.
Dreaming lazily Katrien was completely happy, until…
"Alain!"
"What?"
"He did it again!"
"Isori!"
"But she was sleeping and she has to watch
you!"
"You can save your rider better than I can…" Katrien said,
dripping wet from the tailswish of water Isori had aimed at her.
"But we can’t do CPR."
"That’s a lame excuse!"
"Quit arguing." Cream Eraerla
called toward them. "Now that my rider is
awake, she can swim."
"I don’t like swimming…"
"How can you not like it?" the
cream asked.
"It’s too wet."
Their next stop on their honeymoon
through the galaxy was Nidus Otykaii, a new dragon site that was worth the
visit. Not many dragonriders had visited it yet, so Alain and Katrien were
among the first to see it.
"Too bad we’re only staying here for a week." Alain said when
they first got off.
"You’ll get to see a lot more of it."
Eraerla noted.
"How come? You know we have to be back at Cy in 7 days."
"Cy has more work than it can handle and I
want to fly."
"Here?" Katrien asked.
"As good a place as any."
"Ahem, and how are you going to make sure Isori wins?"
"They accept closed flights, all agencies do.
I don’t see the problem." The iridiscent pink replied, "Eraerla
and me will have beautiful children wherever we fly."
"Couldn’t you postpone a bit?" Alain asked.
"Could you postpone eating when you’re
hungry?" Isori asked.
"In fact, I feel like flying right now. We’ve
waited long enough." Eraerla said, taking off.
"I’m following!" Isori said,
very ready to catch his life mate.
"Wait!" both humans called to their dragons, but they were away
and most of their restrictions faded when the dragons took over their minds.
Suddenly Alain was Isori, chasing, straining to get to the one who belonged
to him. While Katrien became Erlearla, rushing, flying like she had never
flown before with arches, swoops, loops and corkscrews. But still enough of
them remained to get out of sight, to a private place to continue their
honeymoon with their dragons only starting theirs.
In the air, Isori deftly followed Erlearla, he was smaller than his life
mate and a tad more agile, but she had the greater endurance. Isori’s only
chance was to get her quick with all he had. Carefully he studied the cream’s
movements, trying to anticipate the thoughts of the mind he loved and prayed
he knew.
Erlearla looked back and saw an empty sky. She was surprised, because Isori
wasn’t a quitter. Where was he now that he should be chasing her?
"I’m here!" a call came from
all around her, though she couldn’t see him.
"Where?" she asked.
"Below!" Isori called when he
swooped up to catch her, and … missed.
"Too slow!" Erlearla teased, "You
won’t catch me now!"
Erlearla fled away fast, moving away from Isori as he had expected. Quickly
Isori went between and resurfaced just in front of Erlearla. This time there
was no place for her to run.
"Gotcha!" he called out,
"How does that feel?"
"Hmm, strangely good for such an
embarrassment."
"We’ll just tell everyone you let me
win."
"And you’re ok with that?"
"As long as I get you in return."
The pink winked, "I love you."
"And I you."
Alain's Isori
Katrien's Eraerla
Isori and Eraerla are flying at Nidus
Otykaii
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Lantessama Isle
Cy
Dragonstake
Lyrics taken from Forever Young by Alphaville
Forever Young is also what's playing :) I got it
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