Listening Can Help {Cath!!}

Fel looked up and smiled with extreme excitement when she spotted Atenna and Verity. But the Flitts had taken to each attempting to find a place on her shoulder. The Green had taken to simply crawling all over her in extreme excitement while the vibrant Pink now stood on her head, stretching out her wings to show off her colours. Her wings and neck stretched imperiously as she surveyed her surroundings. The Greyish Pink had taken to slashing her tail about glaring at everything, flicking Fel’s head with her tail every now and then.
“Oh! Hi Atenna! I’m so happy to see you! I saw you in the Stands at the hatching! This is Dhanuth. Ah!”
She fell backwards a little as the large pink crawled over onto her chest and leapt down to land in her lap. She prowled around a little while Dhanuth hissed at the Pink in annoyance. She seemed to settle down a little and merely took to stalking forwards and back, keeping an eye on Dhanuth.

With that sorted out Dhanuth could finally respond to the Friend of His. Atenna he thought was her name. He dipped his head respectively to the woman. Any friend of Fel’s was a friend of his. After he was pleased with his observations of the woman he had deemed her rather decent and clearly someone with whom he would happily speak.
Thank you. I am pleased with my choice also. Do not worry, I will make sure she stays safe. We will be strong together. He replied.

Fel, finally in control over the Flitts looked at Atenna and brushed her hair from her eyes. She imagined she looked a little silly with the Pink sitting on her head.
“Well, actually… They just turned up and they looked hungry so I fed them. I didn’t realise they were going to impress to me if I did that.” She answered worriedly.

Canines were so much simpler to understand! They didn’t wind up impressing to people when they weren’t expecting it anyway. She didn’t know whether she could look after three hatchling Flitts and one tiny Dragon… But then, she was Fel and she could do anything! She would do anything! Because she was amazing! With that fact established, Fel calmed herself. The Pink Flitt on her head seemed to have settled down to sleep. Fel could feel her curled up on her head.

“Really! Well, I was so happy to see you there. Oh! It was so exciting. But I didn’t lose hope, not once. One of the Greens walked past me and stood in front of me but then left. That was a little silly. But I’m glad she didn’t impress to me because Dhanuth is much better.” Fel explained seriously.
She was pleased she hadn’t impressed to that Green. She had been mean. Perhaps not intentionally but she wasn’t nice to do that to her. The Cyan after that had told her it was all right. From that Cyan she had known that Hers was still coming. It had made her so pleased.

Dhanuth snorted a little at her comment about him taking his time. He let out a dragon chuckle and watched the woman again.
Yes. Well I had to wait for the right moment. He told Fel seriously.
He wasn’t going to impress with those crazy Pinks running about like that. That one Pink… The beautiful one… She had left him behind to fend for himself but he had found something much better than any Pink. He’d found HisFel. Here she was, much stronger than that Pink. She was small still but he could see strength in her mind and heart, no matter the weaknesses on the surface. He inclined his head in agreement to her statement about Fel needing a protector. Yes, she needed someone to make her calm down. Definitely calm down.

She smiled at the statements about the Flitts.
“Well, I can sort of feel their emotions… But they’re really dull. I would be so thankful if you could take a look at them…” She answered with a worried expression.
She grabbed the Green in mid crawl to hold her out before her. She chattered away happily as Fel examined her and then held her out to Atenna. She didn’t want any of them to be injured in any way. If Atenna could check them over everything would hopefully be fine.

The large Greyish Flitt had started chattering in a strange, aggressive manner and had jumped from the rock to run around in circles on the ground. Dhanuth was eying her in a suspicious manner, as though trying to ensure it did not attack Fel at all. He would have none of that on his watch. These things were as much impressed to him as they were His. He would see them behave or they would have to face him. They would not ever be silly on his watch.

I would have hatched sooner if I’d known how popular FelMine was with my siblings. Dhanuth spoke quietly to Fel, following the movements of the Grey-Pink Flitt.

Fel watched anxiously as Atenna took the Green Flitt. She wriggled a little but it seemed more out of happiness than anything else. Tail waggling back and forth excitedly, the Flitt chirped happily at the Beasthealer. When she ran a hand over the hide the Green’s leg began twitching energetically and she trumpeted happily. Well, Fel was feeling a little more confident about that Flitt… The Grey-Pink, on the other hand, seemed to be ill or something. Maybe she was insane. She was now making strange noises, lying on her side, feet moving around in a circle.
That is… Interesting. Dhanuth observed mildly.

The Black did not move, however, and dropped his head to the ground, watching the Pink critically, wondering whether he should do anything. He did not move, observing all that was happening around him intending to watch before making any movements. Quiet, observe and watch. Maybe it would all be fine. He looked at the small canine that had been set down. So very small… If he were any larger he would probably never even notice the creature. Although she was no smaller than the Firelizards…

Fel was distracted from the antics of the larger Flitt by the question from Atenna. She looked at the Green for a moment and inclined her head slightly.
“Well, I don’t know… She looks kind of pretty, like a plant. Maybe something to do with a forest or something. Plants perhaps.”
She pulled the next Flitt from her head, waking her. She hissed in annoyance but, upon being placed on the rock, curled up and just about went back to sleep again.

She would also need a pretty name, Fel thought, but the large Pink would need something fitting her size. Mega something! She was even a tiny bit larger than the Green. Probably because the Green actually seemed a little small for her colour anyway.

Fel was relieved when Atenna pronounced the Green healthy. That sure was a relief. She wasn’t sure about the pink on her head or the crazy pink. The pink on her head seemed to be sleeping already. Maybe she was just tired from eating a whole heap of food… Fel wasn’t entirely sure. She watched as the Green began wandering about, sniffing the ground almost as though she were trying to explore. Fel then turned her gaze back to the Grey firelizard as Atenna put her hand on her. Suddenly the flitt stopped all movement and lay perfectly still, as though playing dead. Fel frowned at it but she was still breathing and things… Maybe she was just playing before and now she was tired. Yes, that made sense.

I like that name.
Fel jumped suddenly at the quiet injection from her dragon, waking the firelizard on her head. The pink squawked indignantly and Fel suddenly had an image in her head of a firelizard waking and sparkling. She clambered down off Fel’s head and onto the rock, spreading her wings.
“Atenna… I just saw a picture of her waking up and being sparkly!” Fel told Atenna in shock, “Can they send pictures? Because I think she was trying to tell me that she was getting beauty sleep or something.”

Fel giggled at the thought of a firelizard getting her beauty sleep and looked at Dhanuth. He was watching the green firelizard get closer and closer to him before she finally stepped onto his nose and climbed up over his face. He snorted in annoyance but didn’t move, turning his eyes to watch the canine again. He didn’t know why she was scared of him. He was barely big at the moment! Soon he would be, but not just yet. He flexed his muscles and then moved his head to regard Atenna. He liked her. She was a good friend for His.

When it was clear to the Black Dragonet that Fel had no clue what to name the firelizards Dhanuth decided to speak up.
Coral. It is good for that one. Dhanuth announced to the two females, inclining his head towards the light pink who was now wandering around showing off. It is sufficient.
Fel smiled at Dhanuth and then looked at Atenna.
“One down two to go!” She exclaimed.

Fel was pleased that at least one of the firelizards was smart. The other ones she wasn’t so sure about. The green seemed to be ok but the other pink was just all around strange! She had no clue what was wrong with the strange thing. Still, she was cute… In a strange way. Maybe she was just playing with them both in her own way. Perhaps she was just a little angry. Fel noticed that the firelizard looked over at her every few seconds and then went back to playing dead. Silly thing… Now that she thought about it, the flitt probably was playing she just hadn’t figured out how to achieve that.

Dhanuth nodded to Atenna once more with a small, dragon smile. The pink, Coral, had now wandered over to join the green in climbing on Dhanuth. The black dragonet did not move as they wandered all over his back. It kind of felt nice on his muscles, like he was being scratched or petted. Either way, he did nothing to prevent them in their actions. Coral wasn’t there to explore, rather she curled up once more and went back to sleep having recognised that this creature seemed to move less than Hers. Yes, he was much better to sleep on.

“Maybe… Umm, well, there’s stuff that grows on rocks but I forgot the name.”
Moss.
“Moss! That’s it!” Fel cried, “Yes, I think her name should definitely be Moss. It’s pretty like she is!”
Fel had barely noticed how Dhanuth had offered the word to her as though he was her own thoughts. In fact, she thought the word had come to her from her own mind and not his. They were just one mind.
“And the last one… Well, she’s kind of big for her size. Bigger even than Moss.”
It was true, the green seemed small for her size but this pink was almost bigger than the green. Perhaps that would change as they grew but at the moment she was also a mega strange, mega strong firelizard.
“She’s mega and she’s strong. Megastrong! No… I don’t like that. What about Megatron? Because tron is still a part of strong.” Fel explained happily.

Yes, her reasoning was undeniable! She sure was clever. Atenna sure had been helpful giving her some clues as to what she should name the firelizards. Thank goodness she had run into the herder!
“Maybe I should give them more food. Now they have names, it’ll be easier to feed them.”

“Yes, It’ll be easier to feed them because I can talk to them and tell them which one gets what food!”
She’d thought that was completely obvious! It was so much easier to talk to them all if they had names. Now that she had gotten over the initial shock of impressing the firelizards she was extremely excited about them. Not as excited as she had been about impressing Dhanuth, of course, but they were all so cute! Not as cute as Dhanuth but fairly close! Definitely close. She took some of the food she had and held it out for Moss as she crept closer, jumping off Dhanuth’s back.

Meanwhile, Megatron seemed to have tired of her strange game and was trying to creep closer to the food as subtly as she could as though trying to still play dead. But she was hungry… This big creature standing there was silly. She didn’t want to be caught! But she wanted food! Strange creatures these people around her. They didn’t seem to know anything! Maybe if she spoke to her sisters they would tell the people what she wanted. The green, now happily eating food, didn’t seem to quite understand her sister. She chirped at Megatron as the pink crept closer, still lying on the ground.

Fel looked over and noticed Megatron. She smiled at the pink and put some food on the ground for her. The pink jumped to her feet, chattering madly and grabbed the food to eat it before darting off to hide behind the rock, eating her food quick as lightning.
“Oh! Maybe she was just hungry?” Fel said uncertainly.

Something told her that wasn’t entirely the case but, well, at least it made her feel a little better. Perhaps the firelizard was just really angry about something and didn’t quite know how to contain that anger. Coral was also watching Fel with some interest as though she felt hungry but didn’t quite know what was more important, food or getting her beauty sleep.
She may be unable to speak properly. Maybe she speaks another language entirely.

Fel was completely oblivious to the worries Atenna seemed to have over Megatron. The flitt seemed sweet but just unable to quite show what she wanted. She was probably playing but in a strange way. Fel knew heaps of people and creatures that did the same thing. She didn’t seem quite hostile anymore but just… Different. Atenna said the pink was fine and Fel immediately sat up straighter, now that load was off her back.
“That’s good then. She’ll probably be the one that protects the other two or something. Maybe she’ll teach them how to play like she can and I’ll be able to understand it better.” She said the second part a little doubtfully but smiled up at Atenna.

Coral had finally decided that food was more important and was now sitting on Dhanuth’s muzzle, mouth open and staring at Fel expectantly. Dhanuth sneezed softly as though trying to make a point. Fel giggled and threw food to the pink. Coral caught it deftly and ate it delicately before climbing back over Dhanuth’s face and onto his head once more.
You care for the other creatures of the Weyr? Dhanuth asked Atenna, turning his eyes upon her.

With Fel currently preoccupied with her new pets he figured he might just get a better conversation out of the older woman. More importantly, he wished to distract himself from the tiny dragons crawling upon him, Moss having just climbed up to join her sister. He would have a bath after this for he was certain that they had taken food to eat off of his back.

Megatron was peering curiously around at them all, chattering quietly in her strange way, glancing furtively to the side every now and then as though planning something. After making certain no one was watching her, she darted from her hiding place and out into the open, rolling to hide behind Dhanuth’s bulk and then clambering up his side.

Fel seemed quite pleased to see that the firelizards had taken so kindly to Dhanuth. Or perhaps the other way around… It was great to see that they were becoming friends really quickly! She guessed it had something to do with their bond extending to the firelizards.

”Yes, I will help her, don’t you worry!” Fel agreed.
She was just about running out of her food. Lucky they were rather small creatures or she probably would have wound up empty handed. She was a little hungry too. Maybe she and Atenna could go back to the Weyr and get some food together!

Dhanuth nodded, ignoring the movements of the firelizards on his back. He was interested in how she cared for the creatures without being able to speak to them directly. It must have been difficult to understand what upset them or worried them without being able to speak into their minds. Even the canine seemed to want to tell Hers something but appeared to be unable to achieve it.

Coral chirped happily at the healer as she moved closer to Dhanuth, pleased that she was receiving some attention. Dhanuth also watched Atenna out of the corner of his eye as she neared him and listened to her question. His eyes flicked back to Fel but the young Weyrling seemed far too preoccupied with her new pets. She just seemed to think that Atenna was checking on Coral again.

Dhanuth raised his head a little and turned his eyes of Megatron who promptly screeched and ran to hide somewhere else. He tried his best to send her a message and she did seem to calm for a moment before she sent him an image in return. It was… Odd to say the least. The image she sent him seemed to be skewed and wavy as though she saw some different things. She sent him a clearer message and Dhanuth settled down again.
She is different but not insane. Borderline.
Dhanuth kept the speech from Fel, knowing that Atenna didn’t appear to want to worry her.

Megatron saw things differently but it didn’t appear to be insanity.
I need only calm her. She is not angry but she thinks she is acting in an endearing manner. She believes that this is her being friendly.

Dhanuth inclined his head respectfully towards the herder and then focussed his gaze on Megatron who seemed to have calmed down now that a larger creature was glaring at her. She slinked her way out of her hiding spot and hissed softly before calming again and trotting her way over to grudgingly join her sisters. Now that he had sorted that business Dhanuth got to his feet and stretched, firelizards clinging to his back as he shook himself.
Well, perhaps we should go and get some more food so Atenna may join us?

Fel looked at Dhanuth and smiled. What an excellent idea! Even if they didn’t have time to bring all the food outside again they would at least be able to have some food together.
“Yes! Dhanuth says that we should get some more food and then come back out to eat it! Even then, would you like to come with us?”

She was still rather hungry considering that she had just fed most of her food to the firelizards. They seemed to be settling down too now that they were so full. Moss even seemed to have developed something of a belly as she flopped down on Dhanuth’s back. Moss, at least, seemed to want to keep playing but was a little too tired now. Who could blame her? She had just hatched, played around a whole lot and now she was stuffed like a wherry for a Gather. Fel jumped to her feet and petted each of the firelizards fondly before hugging Dhanuth and turning to Atenna.

“Even if you don’t have time we can still walk back together!”
She knew how hard her friend worked in the Weyr, how hard they all worked really, so it was sometimes difficult to find time for one another…