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"Fada, what can I be when I grow up?" "Why a runnerbeast breeder, just like me!" "But isn't there something else I can be?" Her father's eyes had turned mean and he had slapped her across her face so hard that tears streamed down in a torrent. "No! Nothin'! Ya hear me child, nothin'!" "But fada, what about the creatures I see in the sky sometimes, the ones who have people on their backs, the people who wave to me?" He had slapped her twice more so her face was red and burned with pain. "Ye're imaginin' things Kalya! I wanna here no more folish notions of ye's, ya understand?" "Yes fada..." she had run crying to her room. "Mada, why-" "Be quiet Kalya. Don't ask questions." She had run crying from their hut to the drudge's kitchen, where she had seen her drudge friend Joth. J-joth, I'm not imaginin' am I? I saw them fly-things." "They're not fly-things Kalya, they're dragons! Doncha know bout em?" "No, fada tol me they was imaginin's..." "They wasn't Kalya! Go to Igen Weyr, them's queens gonna rise soon. Impress there. Come back and buy me outa drudgery!" Surprised, Kalya had dried her eyes. "I wanna do something with me life, I wanna change Pern for the better." "Do that Kalya. Go an try ta Impress the queen, become a Weyrwoman and then you can make Pern better." She had sniffed and stood up. "I will go ta Igen and Impress!" "Good for you Kalya! Just remeber, ya gotta have ambition and drive to be a Weyrperson. But be kind, too." "Alright, I think I can do that!"

That had been a year ago, on her thirteenth birthday. Joth had died from a chill he had taken that had never gotten better. She bit her lip. She could now never buy Joth out from his bondage, but she could come here and Impress the soon to be queen she was almost sure would be a part of the Igen queen's clutch. I want to help make Pern better, I want to do something with my life. And to do that, I need to Impress the queen. Plus, though she had never mentioned it, she just plain wanted the queen. Wanted to be important and special. She had run away from her father's oppression and she was strong enough now, she knew it! She had escaped at night with only a knife and a runnerbeast. I have enough ambition and drive to satisfy anyone, I can do it!

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• ((OOC~ Of course you know this, but I'll tell you anyways - the clutch isn't here yet, so feel free to roam the Weyr until it is. It'll be laid in about a half a week to a week, real time. *grin* Good luck! And please, don't be disappointed if you get a green or blue.)) (NT) -- Igen, 09:47:52 12/08/01 Sat
  • ((Okay, I understand that I may not get the queen (though I really really hope I do), but if I don't, can you give me a green, it's just that I already have a blue on two other chars, so if I don't Impress a queen, I'd like a likkle variety (of course, I may not Impress at all!) but I do hope you like my char's background, I thought it was a pretty good reason for her to want the queen, to change Pern, kinda like I'd want...)) (NT) -- Kalya, 12:06:33 12/08/01 Sat
    • She gets up -- Kalya, 16:22:31 12/08/01 Sat