Slow Day (Birdy)

[Reky]

It definitely wasn't busy in the infirmary. It was one of those days where pretty much no one came in and out, there was only one or two patients sleeping on the cots, and Cleo was quite enjoying her job of doing nothing. Andry was enjoying it even more, sleeping on her desk near were her feet were put up. She stretched her arms out above her head, and yawned. It was the late afternoon by now, and she'd been lazing about since noontime. While her brown firelizard might have been content to keep it up, Cleo was a little too energetic for that. So, without disturbing Andry, she got up from her chair and went out to the hallway to stretch her legs. Everything should be fine without her. If not, Andry would get her.

She hummed to herself as she went, strolling leisurely through that glow-lit corridors. She passed people as she went and flashed them cheery smiles. Despite such an uneventful day, she was still in a good mood. Cleo was always in a good mood. It wasn't hard to be, when you had such a bright outlook on life. In fact, the walk she was having was making her feel even better, and her humming took up a lively tune.

Then, out of nowhere, she spun around in the hallway and giggled once, before continuing on her way.

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[Birdy]

“Ow! Sharding shardy Farnath’s shards!” Paralee squeaked, holding her foot while hopping on the other to keep her balance.”Why is it so sharding sharding dark down here?!” she screeched, kicking the offending wall with her other foot and immediately regretting it. Letting out another shriek. “Sharding wall!” she muttered, turning to look at Tomarth. The blue was watching her worriedly, You should watch your step Paraleemine, it is darker here… he said, pushing the brunette away from the wall. Push push push…he had to stop letting His get hurt.

Paralee dug her feet into the ground. “Where on Pern are you taking me Tommsies?” she said with a frown, as he used all of his strength to move her foraward. To the infirmary Paraleemine, you hurt yourself, yes you did, he said continuing to push her down the hallway. Raising an eyebrow Paralee giggled, “That’s no reason to take me to the infirmary Tommyboy,” she said but made no move to stop being propelled down the hallway. “If I’m bleeding then you can take me alright?” she said looking back at the blue with a happy grin.

The blue paused in his push push pushing when he heard something else. Perhaps it was a wher? He was had never seen a wher up close and neither had His. Maybe today would be the first day! He sped up his pushing eager to see the strange creature but stopped suddenly when he found it wasn’t a wher but a human. Paralee quickly jumped up from her spot leaning against Tomarth and curtseyed to this newfound person with a little giggle. “Nice to meet ya nice to meet ya!” the brunette said with another giggle, quickly looking the woman up and down.

[Reky]

She'd heard some faint voice, sounding quite upset. Mother mode initiating, Cleo moving towards the source of the noise, hoping to cheer it up. Come to think of it, it had sounded a little like it was in pain. Even better! She could fix that! That was her job, yes it was! However, it was a very pleasant surprise to find that the noisemaker was already cheerful. And pretty! Her giggle was cute, too. Cleo smiled wide.

"Oh, hello to you, too!" she chuckled, mimicking Paralee's curtsy. She tilted her head to the side, seeing Tomarth. "My, he's darling," she cooed. Then, she added, looking back at Paralee, "So are you!" Hopefully, that wouldn't offend her... You could never know. The girl seemed happy enough, though, so Cleo figured she'd take her chances. After all, that's all you could do with ladies, is take chances. Only way to find out which team they were on, hey? Cleo felt giddy. Her good mood was, suddenly, extra good.

"I'm Cleo," she introduced herself, still smiling sweetly as she was wont to do. "Journeywoman Healer!" There was pride in her voice, no doubt. She stuck a hand out to Paralee for shaking.

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[Birdy]

Paralee giggled as the woman mimicked her. She grinned at the she mentioned Tomarth. “Oh thanks you, Tommsies really is a sweetheart. He was trying to bring me to the infirmary. I stubbed my toe ya see,” Paralee chirped matter of factly, patting Toamrth’s head. The blue nudged her hand with a happy snort, I was so worried about you Paraleemine he said, eyes whirling pleasantly.

“Oh!” Paralee said at the woman’s second comment, flushing bright red. She hadn’t been expecting that! A wide grin appeared on her face, “I could say the same about you!” she replied, a devious twinkle in her eyes. What luck that she happen upon her out of all the people in the weyr who roamed the hallways. Tomarth tilted his head, staring at His. She seemed to have taken a sudden liking to this women. Sure, he knew that His was not like most of the other girls but he didn’t really get the concept. With a mental shrug he went back to rubbing his nose in Paralee’s hand and was dismayed when she pulled it away.

“M’name’s Paralee!” the brunette replied. “Weyrling of Blue Tomarth.” She shook Cleo’s hand happily, so that was why she was in the infirmary. She reminded herself to thank Tomarth for trying to take her to the Infirmary. If they got along as well as she thought they would she might get “hurt” more often.

[Reky]

Bringing her in for a stubbed toe? Oh, that was too sweet. She smiled at the little blue. He was from Kalith's hatching, then, wasn't he? He looked familiar. She'd been at the hatching, of course, having arrived a couple sevendays prior, but Tomarth was quite a bit larger than he was when he'd hatched. The little dragonets were growing like weeds! Then, Cleo's smile widened even more.

Oh, happy day! What an adorable blush. So, she was on Cleo's team. Either that, or she was messing with Cleo's head. That devious little smirk seemed too genuine, though. "Why, thank you," Cleo giggled, also a little pink in the cheeks by now. She shook Paralee's hand right back, and said, "A pleasure to meet you, Paralee!"

Then, she looked down at the blue dragonet, and grinned. "And you, too, Tomarth. Still want me to take a look at her stubbed toe? Hmm?"

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[Birdy]

Tomarth's eyes whirled happily as Cleo looked him over. If His liked her then he wanted her to like him too. The blue puffed up his chest trying to appear bigger. Paralee giggled at the blue, he sure was adorable! "He's still a baby, silly baby drgon! He hatched..." she started counting her finger but quickly gave up and shrugged. "It wasn't too long ago," she said finally. Tomarth rubbed his head against Paralee's hand.

"You been here long? I was here for a bit before Tommy's hatching so I kind of knew My way around ya know?" Paralee chirped happily, glad to have someone to talk to. "Course I'd never been to the lower caverns before..Tomarth was hoping to see a wher but meeting you is even better Ms Cleo!" the brunette said excitedly, and realizing she was still holding Cleo's hand, quickly let go with a nervous yet still extremely giddy laugh.

Tomarth wasn't sure if Cleo was kidding about checking His's foot but she WAS a healer which seemed to be a good rank. Paralee however beat him to the reply, "Well you're the Healer here, if you really want to!" Paralee said with a mischievious grin.

[Reky]

"Oh, well! I was here about a sevenday or two before that big hatching!" Cleo nodded. "It took me forever to get my stuff all unpacked and my office in order! But now everything's good." She remembered, fondly, to the feeling of finally getting it all done with. Oh... but then Nadya had came along, and that had been wonderful, until Nadya had left early... that wasn't so wonderful at all. Really disappointing, actually. Cleo's face fell for a split second, but she was quickly smiling again.

"Well, meeting you is definitely great, too, Paralee!" Cleo giggled. "I like you already. Lots and lots! It's great to find someone who isn't all grumpy!" She didn't seem to think much of Paralee having held her hand a tad long. Actually, after Paralee's mischievous grin, Cleo threw her arm around the girl's shoulders.

"I'm sure you're perfectly fine, but we can always check it anyways and give it some ice!" Cleo said, winking at the girl in a playful way. "And, you can meet Andry! I'm sure you'll love him. He really is adorable. He is a tad grumpy, though, so don't be upset if he doesn't like you back." He was probably still sleeping, she thought fondly, still on her desk. She hadn't bothered to mention that Andry was a firelizard, because she figured it would add a bit of a guessing game to it, and that was always fun!

Practically exuding sunshine, Cleo steered Paralee down the hall and towards the infirmary.

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[Birdy]

"You have an office? How professional, course if I had an office I'd probably sleep the day away," Paralee giggled. "I'd just shut the door...and doze off." She mimed closing the door and grinned. "I'd never get anything done!" Being a healer must be serious business! Well of course becuse they, you know, healed people. Still caught up on the idea of her own office she failed to notice the brief change in Cleo's emotions.

"Yep! There are some grumpy people here...though I've only really met the weyrlings. Remiel, Jasra, Amara, Rhysia," she was trying to count them on her fingers but lost track when Cleo put her arm around her shoulder. "There's alot of us," she said apologeticly.

"That might be best Ms Cleo, I kick-er stubbed my toe pretty hard," Paralee said with an over dramatic sigh. Tomarth quickly took a spot behind His, happy to feed off of her happy emotions. "Andry?" Paralee asked curiously, quicky abandoning her hurt act. "Is that one of the healers? Is it? I heard there was a rider in the infirmary I think...that would make getting around easier right?" she chirped quickly as Cleo steered her down the hallway, Tomarth following close behind. He looked around the hallway. Secretly he was hoping Andry was short for Andrysk so he could meet a wher.

[Reky]

"Well! It's very tempting to just fall asleep sometimes! But I have a job to do, and I love it, sooo," she left off on a sing-song sort of note. They weren't at all that far from the infirmary, so it wasn't like it was a far walk. Luckily, the rest of the way there was part of the lower caverns that were actually well-tended in terms of fresh glows.

"Well, he's sort of a healer," Cleo chuckled. "A very lazy one. Mostly, he just watches the place when everyone else is gone, just in case. Oh! And yes! There are dragonhealers, for sure! Good thing, that, since there are so many dragons here!" She whispered, now, like it was a secret, "Personally, I don't know much about dragons at all. Can't heal something if you don't understand it! So I just do people, mostly, or the easy dragon things."

Soon enough, Cleo steered Paralee right into the infirmary, then through an open door to where her desk was. Upon it, was the blob of brown and wings that was Andry, still snoozing away right where she'd left him.

Cleo grinned.

"That's Andry!"

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[Birdy]

“Well that’s a good thing, cause next time I hurt myself I’ll come straight to you and if you were asleep that would be bad. Specially if I was bleeding everywhere,” she made a face at the thought. While she hadn’t really hurt herself at the weyr yet with Tomarth and having to slice meat for him it was bound to happen sometime I would never let you get hurt Paraleemine, Tomarth said eyes whirling protectively. “Everyone gets hurt sometimes Tommie,” she said absently then, realizing she had spoken out loud, giggled nervously. “Still haven’t gotten that whole mental thing down yet,” she chirped apologetically and tried it once more. Testing! Tomarth do you hear me? Huh? she asked, biting her lip in concentration. Tomarth nodded, eyes whirling in amusement, his was silly silly silly. Loud and clear Mine, he replied.

Sort of a healer? Was that possible? Can you be sort of a dragonrider? No, she didn’t think so…it was an all for nothing thing right? She was pulled out of her thoughts when Cleo started whispering and giggled in reply. “Well I know a little about them, but nothing about healing. I didn’t know anything about dragons before I got here though…” They were at the infirmary now, or she assumed they were, she’d never been there before. She looked around the room, hadn’t Cleo said there was someone else here..?

“Oh!” Paralee’s eyes widened, her voice going up at least an octave at the sight of the firelizard. “How cute he is! He’s so little compared to Tommy! And his little feet! So cuuute!” She crouched down by the edge of the desk staring at the flit so that only her eyes were peering over its edge. “I’ve never had a firelizard…always wanted one though…” she said quietly then grinned up at Cleo quickly back to her normal self. Tomarth peered over the edge too, focusing a multicolored eye on the brown.

[Reky]

Cleo giggled. "Isn't he darling?" Paralee definitely seemed to think so. "He watches the place while I'm gone, and helps me out when I'm working and gets me things when I need them. He always grumbles about it, and would rather be sleeping all the time, but I love him loads anyways. He loves cuddles." She'd had Andry for a long time, she remembered. He was getting old! Once upon a time, he was a little tiny thing, and he wasn't at all fat. She could barely imagine him like that anymore. The little brown stirred, and Cleo smiled.

He blinked his bleary eyes a few times, lazily lifting his head, trying to figure out what exactly the blur in front of the desk was. When it resolved to a girl and a dragon, he blinked even more wildly. What? Where had those come from? He was about to send Cleo an image of them, telling her to get back to the infirmary, but... oh! There she was, right there. She'd brought people to wake him up? That wasn't very nice. Grumbling in a comical firelizard voice, he hid his head beneath his wing.

"Oh, Andry dear, I'm sorry," Cleo said. "But you've been sleeping aaall day!" The journeywoman healer leaned over the desk and picked him up, grunting a little at his weight, and cradled him in her arms like a babe. At first, he wiggled in protest, but then he calmed down and fell prey to the cuddling. He yawned wide and loud.

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[Birdy]

“He is!” Paralee agreed, staring at the cute little flit. “He’s like a little watch wher for your office! Only so much cuuuteeer!” Faranth she really needed one of those! With their cute little feet and their pretty wings. Oooh, and he was pudgy! “Bet you don’ fly much huh?” she said with a grin as the flitter woke up. That would be entertaining to see! And he was warbling in his tiny firelizard voice! She wished she could just pick him up and give him a big hug like she’d tried once with a feline at on of the holds she’d visited. It hadn’t ended well for her with lots of bandages and tears.

Tomarth had other thoughts of the flitter. Had he ever been that tiny? He sure was tiny. Compared to big browns at least. He’d seen smaller version of these flitters. Did they get bigger? He didn’t know. One thing he did now was that he wanted once, or at least he wanted His to have one so he could play with it.

Paralee stepped back as Cleo scooped up the apparently heavy fire lizard and cradled him in her arms. Oh and he’d just fallen asleep again! “He’s like a little baby!” Paralee squealed, but quietly as she didn’t want to wake up the adorable brown. So cute!!

[Reky]

"He's really really lazy," Cleo said. She hardly ever see Andry fly around. If he did, it was only briefly to get in the air to go between. Well... There was that time where he'd come back exhausted. She'd shared a bit of wine with him, and she was pretty sure he when and chased a pretty lady because of it. She wished she could have seen it, her little Andry chasing a female, but she'd kept in her office, humming to herself.

"Yep, he's my babyyy," she cooed. "Aren't you, Andry?" He was almost asleep again, though, so he ignored her. He was completely motionless in her arms, lazy as always, and didn't react as she moved out of the office and into another room. She didn't make an explanation as to why, but soon she came back with a small tub of very cold water and a cloth. Presumably, it was for Paralee's stubbed toe.

"We'll keep the swelling down," she said, and then winking at Tomarth. "She'll be right as rain!" She found it immensely adorable that the blue had cared so much about a little stubbed toe, and figured she'd play along. She set the tub and cloth down, because it was awkward to carry with only one free hand. The other was occupied with holding Andry.

Then, out of nowhere, she grinned wide and giggled.

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[Birdy]

Paralee giggled at the duo. They were both so cute! But in their own ways of course.Andry was the sort of cute you associated with baby canines and felines, Cleo was...the other kind. The weyrling was trying so very to keep her thoughts in check for Tomarth's sakeand the brown was a great distraction. But he was asleep and Cleo had disappared into another room. Paralee peered around the doorway quickly before pulling her head back when she sawthe Healer returning.

Tomarth was glad to have His's foot looked at. She sure had been loud when she'd stubed her toe Faranh's name had been mentioned a lot too. He nodded at Cleo, fixing his whirling eyes on Parale's foot. His rider, whose foot no longer really hurt, was busy taking off sock sand shoes. Paralee wigglde her toes in front of the blue. You'll hurt it moore! Tomarth said worriedly buttinghis head into her foot."Now that hurts," Paralee said quickly, pulliing her foot back.

She couldn't help but smile at the healer's grin "What?" she asked curiously forgtting her 'hurt' toe for a moment.

[Reky]

"Oh, nothing, nothing," Cleo said, turning her sudden grin into a softer sort of smile. She pushed back her loose white sleeves, inspecting Paralee's toe with her eyes. It would definitely by wanting to swell, she deducted, and dunked the cloth in the tub of cold water. Ice was something for only the colder regions - it was nearly impossible to keep water frozen here, and on demand. It was definitely a luxury they didn't have access to. Cold water still did the trick, though.

On the table, Andry gave a snore and rolled over.

"Aaaalrighty," said Cleo, wringing out the excess water and trying not to get her hands all over the cloth (too keep it from soaking up the warmth). "This'll be a tad chilly." She deftly wrapped the cloth around the stubbed toe. "Tell me when it doesn't feel cold anymore, 'kay?"

She stood up and wiped her wet hands on her trousers. There was some sort of glow about her, she was just so happy. It was a lovely day indeed. Sure, it had been exceedingly boring before, but not now. Nope, Paralee had come along, and she was great company! And adorable! And Cleo was having a grand time doing a little swell-control to help Tomarth feel more at ease about his rider's stubbed toe. Yes, this day had turned out better than she'd expected, and she loved it.

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[Birdy]

“Tell me tell me! Now you’ve got me all curious!” Paralee pleaded. “Pleeease?” She had used this sort of tactic on her mother back in the caravan when she was younger. Well, not that much younger. She really did want to know. You didn’t just smile like that for no reason! She had to know!! Maybe she is just happy, you are happy and I am happy, I think the little brown thing is happy too. But he is also asleep, Tomarth said helpfully, sniffing the ice by Paralee’s feet. There was really no smell, but it was cold by his nose and he snorted in surprise before leaning in once more to sniff it.

“Oh that is cold!” Paralee squeaked, eyes wide at the coldness. “Does going numb mean not being able to feel it cause that’ll happen first.” She grinned, wiggling her toes under the cold wrap. Tomarth sure did worry about her. It was nice! I was afraid you weren’t going to be able to walk Mine, you need to walk! Naw, I could just ride around on your back all day, that’d be fun, she replied, leaning back in the chair and looking around the healer’s office.

She was looking over all the shelves when she finally lost feeling in her foot. “Yep, it’s gone,” she said, poking the offending toe. Nothing at all! That ice had worked wonders on her barely hurt toe!

[Reky]

When Paralee started pleading, Cleo caved. In all honesty, it was mostly nothing that had provoked the smiles and giggles, but she could definitely point out the best answer. "I'm just having a very good day," said Cleo.

Then, she chuckled again, nudging the tub more towards the middle of the desk so it wouldn't threaten to fall as easily. It accidentally nudged Andry, and he woke with a start to glare at the offending, cold object, before falling back asleep again in the wink of an eyes. He rolled over again, away from the tub of cold water.

"Well, I meant when it felt warm, but numb works, too," said Cleo. She left the cloth on for a little while longer, even after Paralee announced the lack of feeling, and then she took it off and dropped it in the tub.

"Right! That should keep it from blowing up like a balloon," she giggled. "Just gonna go put this away." She walked off, a touch of dance in her step, and deposited the tub in another room and came back. "There we go. All fixed up!" She gave a winning smile.

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[Birdy]

Paralee could accept that answer for now. A good day WAS a reason to be giggly and cheerful. She herself was like that most everyday! It was fun being a happy person. You could affect those around you and make them happy too! Like mind control. Well, if that washow it worked then the two of them would make the entire planet one big ball of happy sunshine.

Tomarth peered oover the desk at Andry, quite captivated by the little flitter. He had tiny toes just like his big toes and tiny wing just like his big wings. The only difference was color...well size too! The blue's eyes whirled curiously as the little flitter was startled awake by the tub of water. Poor tiny dragon, but it seemed that he wasn't too disturbed as he fell asleep agan right away. He couldn't fall asleep that fast.

Parlalee shrugged, "I don't know much about healing...as you probably figured out," she giggled happily, wiggling her toes under the cloth to make sure they were still there as she really couldn't feel her toes at the moment.

"Oh you're done?" Paralee said, almost sadly. She was quite enjoying her time with Cleo and if it weren't for the lovely blue dagonet (who was still staring at Andry) she would have let her mind wander a bit more with the idea. She watched the women go intothe other room and sighed, being a weyrling was no fun. She couldn't fly, couldn't party, couldn't do anythingreally fun! She quickly put n a happy face as Cleo returned. "Well, thank you Miss Cleo," she chirped in a falsely happy tone.

[Reky]

"You're quite welcome!" Cleo smiled, giggling a little. "Just doing my job." The healer winked. Even little helpful things like putting cold on a stubbed toe made her feel accomplished. Sure, it wasn't exactly amputation or treating a deadly illness, but anything that made someone's life better made Cleo's life better. That's why she loved her job. Helping people was her passion, and always would be.

"Do you have Weyrling lessons, or chores? Hm?" The question was more addressed at Tomarth than Paralee, just for fun. Cleo had her hands on her hips in a good-mannered way. "Well, if you don't, you can stick around here if you want!" She flashed a white-toothed smile at Paralee. "I could always use company here. Andry's all I have, mostly, and he sleeps sooo much. I don't even know how he loses all the energy so fast." It was quite perplexing. The flitter ate so much, and moved so little, so he couldn't possibly burn any calories. All he did was sleep, sleep, sleep.

(( You could have it end here, or keep going. I just have a bunch of threads and I kinda wanna get some done, so I can RP Kesviry more before the double Queen hatching. ))

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