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Date Posted: 14:25:39 05/29/05 Sun
Author: Gisella, Ren, Tev
Subject: >Hatching Feast!<

((I should've posted this earlier, but it's been the very end of my last year of high school and therefore crazy and hectic. Hey, the Hatching's not quite over just yet....))

Most of the food is done, and what's left can be handled by the more experienced kitchen workers, so Gisella begins chivvying the drudges and helpers out of the kitchens with platters of food in tow. Leaving brown Tev in the kitchens to watch over the last preparations, just in case, and keeping the identical Ren with the food-bearers to supervise the excited younglings, the Headwoman sweeps past them and into the large cavern where the denizens of the Weyr generally eat. Her grey-green eyes, bright under bushy red eyebrows, gleam with almost shark-like delight as she sees a few dragonriders around who don't seem to have made it to the Hatching quite yet. "You!" she calls imperiously, her voice forceful without needing to be raised, and gestures at them. "Help me get those four tables lined up in a row, end-to-end. Hurry, before the food gets here." Most of them rush to assist, either from genuine helpfullness or the knowledge that on such ocassions Gisella lets her helpers nibble on the food before the other diners come, and those who slip out the door are silently marked by the middle-aged woman's sharp eyes. The tables are lined up just in time, and the food-bearers arrive to set out their burdens, carefully arranged for efficient access. That dealt with, Gisella sends them off to wash up (with Ren still in attendance, to make sure that they clean themselves properly). Then she wanders around the big cavern, making sure everything is arranged properly, shooting stern glares at a few firelizards who try to steal from the buffet-style tables, and checking on the kitchens through Tev's eyes every so often. The Feast proper won't start until the Hatching is over and the Weyrwoman arrives, but she wants to have everything ready by then.

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