*Candidate Story*
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*Stats & Dragons*
Nathaniel
Daniel
Reggie
Ravenna

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The Hatching
Ravenna was excited, but still sleepy when she heard the cries of hatching nearby. Used as she was to living in the evening and night noon was still too early to wake up. Of course she had to for classes, but apparently today they had let her sleep.
Her mind cleared up and her conscious got a hold of the cries: "Hatching!". For a moment she needed to think to know where she was.
"Coffee. I'd kill for coffee." she mumbled.
"I can give you water." Reggie said and smiled. How anyone could be so happy was beyond her. Ravenna turned her head into her pillow and closed her eyes.
"You don't want to miss the dragons, right?"
Dragons. That word brought it all back. The weird chick with her dragon tattoo had brought her here, into an unknown bed.
"Are they hatching?"
"Yes sleepy. Now hurry!"
Within five minutes Ravenna was ready. She and Reggie hurried to the Sands and waited. Upon their entry a small blue silver dragon had shed the egg of his hide and was moving toward some boys. Ravenna didn't give him a second look, but Reggie softly cursed... maybe if he had been sooner.
A small pink silver hatched next. Nice for that typical girlie look, but not something you'd bring to a club, Ravenna thought. Not much later a green silver hatched. Now this one was different. The dragon's skin was patterned with an almost electric look to it. She got everyone's attention immediatly. But she only was interested in one of them. And that one was Ravenna.
"My name is Rixorieth." she said and let the rest speek for itself.
Reluctantly Ravenna left Reggie alone and watched from a distance. While Rixorieth was gulping down meat from her hands not one dragon looked at Reggie. Ravenna couldn't help but feel sorry for her friend. But there were still enough eggs left.
"I'll come again every hatching until he does impress." Ravenna promised herself, straightening her back.
"A little lower please. I can't reach it that far up."
"Sorry Rixorieth."

Green-Silver Rixorieth

Weyrlings
A few months after Rixorieth's hatching another clutch was ready to hatch. So far Reggie hadn't been in luck with finding a dragon, but sooner or later it would happen. Rixorieth had assured Ravenna that the right dragon for everyone was out there. And indeed, not much later Reggie managed to bond a night blue duowinged dragon.
"Really, I wouldn't know where that dragon puts all that wingsail though." Rixorieth remarked, yet again trying to keep her wings from getting in the way of practice. To improve their agility, the weyrling master had given them a large ball, not unlike the ones used at water polo. The weyrlings who'd just gotten the knack of flying had to try and keep it airborne while passing it to each other. Suffice to say Rixorieth hadn't quite gotten the hang of it. She often got hit and the dents in her hide took hours of rubbing with oil to smooth out.

Adults
It had only been a month since Kaoverth had stopped growing. But to Kaoverth that time had seemed like an eternity. he'd been waiting to fly this one important female since the time he'd been old enough to understand the desires. He didn't have them then, He didn't know when he'd get them, but he already knew the one female that would need to be his was Silver-Green Rixioreth. And today was the day.
"Think quick." Rixioreth laughed her tingly laugh in his mind and Kaoverth could only look up to see a silver streak mar the twilight sky.
"I'm coming!" he called after her.
He bugled and with one sweep from his wings, he was airborne, searching the skies around him for oddly bright colours.
Rixioreth flew, trying to get away. She was chasing the sun. After all her light-coloured skin was more than noticeable in the night sky, it was a dead give-away about her whereabouts. Kaoverth on the other hand with his night-blue hide was almost invisible at this time, when the stars hadn't yet appeared.
On the ground their two riders were waiting, each caught up in their dragon's mind. The flight was closed and thus could take all night. But on the other hand, how could they be certain that other dragons wouldn't join them? Was it wise for Kaoverth to take his time? Or for Rixioreth to try and catch the sun?
Finally Kaoverth set off in the direction Rixorieth had taken before him. He chased the remaining string of colours on the horizon and darted past the clouds. Knowing Rixioreth wouldn't keep still when he got close, he called out her name in his head as loud as he could.
"Rixioreth! Rixioreth!"
Rixioreth heard him, and he was well on his way to catching up to her.
"Youth." she smirked, even if she was only half a year older than him.
"I heard that!" Kaoverth called back.
"You're so close already." Rixioreth said, a bit disappointed, "I'd hoped to fly against the setting sun."
"We'll have to settle for twilight." Kaoverth said.
"But not quite yet." Rixi smiled, letting Kaoverth come within looking distance, before diving down, right into the clouds.
Diving behind her, Kaoverth cursed. He had hoped it wouldn't come to this. The silver of Rixioreth's tail was barely indistinguishable from the shaded gatherings of mist. And he was chasing that tail, not her head, which he might have spotted.
"Found me yet?" he heard her call.
He turned to where he'd heard her, but she was gone already. He could feel her eyes on him as he plummeted further toward the sea. His four wings and his instincts on altitude were all that kept him safe as the clouds flew dangerously close above the water.
Rixorieth had circled around Kaoverth for a while and had for the moment flown up front for a bit longer. Flying in the clouds, though it hid her, was also hard for her. For the last fifteen minutes she thought she(d spotted a blue and black form on more than one occasion, but it had always turned out to be sky. So where was Kaoverth?
Behind her a splash sounded. Too big to be a fish, Rixioreth immediately assumed the worst.
"Kaoverth!" she called.
Only to feel a wet claw grasp her tail from below.
"I knew you wouldn't be able to dodge me if I came from the water." he purred,
"you never could."
"I always let you." she resisted.
"And now I caught you?" he asked.
"Nah... I let you." she resisted more.
"I still have you though."

Nathaniel and Daniel are candidates at Darkling Dawn
Reggie and Ravenna are Candidates at Ryslen