Meena
***

Meena turned a cold shoulder at the tall blonde rider as he walked up
behind her, "Everythings ready on our end, Meena."

"Thanks," she snipped at him.

He frowned, unhappy at her demeanor, but with Kalirna standing right there
he wasn't about to try and talk with her about it. He was pretty sure he
knew what it was about.  He'd seen her turn away  from him this morning as
Chinn had kissed him. He did feel kinda bad about that. After all he didn't
care anything for the raven-haired friend of Greta's ..  not like he did
for Meena. But after all she'd made it very clear that she wasn't
interested in him ..

Meena paced slightly, "I wonder where the others are?" she murmured.

"They aren't due here for a bit. We're actually a little early."

Meena turned to look at him, "At least this time." Her brown hair blew
across her face and she silently cursed herself for not having tied it up,
which was getting long. She'd thought about cutting it shoulder length
again, but decided it was time for a change, so she just let it grow.

Jahn looked back at Kalirna and sighed.  He'd just bide his time for now..
eventually he would find the right time to talk to her.

Meena wasn't sure why she was so angry at him. It wasn't as though he was
that late .. and there really wasn't any reason he shouldn't spend the
night with some beautiful woman or other. Yet for some reason it bothered
her.

Thankfully she didn't have time to dwell on it as the rest of their
scouting party began to tricklein. Meena threw herself into the task at
hand, so she no longer had to think about Jahn's personal life.

***

>"Shall we mount up and head out?"

>"Just give the orders," Farr'in replied, bowing slightly from the waist.
>"You lead I'll follow."

Meena grinned then motioned to Galen to follow her as she moved toward the
albino Vonn. She climbed up on the dragon outstretched forearm and then on
up into the saddle before turning to see how Galen was doing.

His face was unreadable and she figured he must have overcome his initial
fear of dragons. That was good, for living in the warren, if that's what he
decided to do .. he would run into a lot of the great beasts. She held out
her hand to him to help him up.

He accepted Meena's hand and was straddleing the large dragon, his hands
circling her waist. She could almost feel tension in his hands, but then
decided it was nothing as they relaxed almost immediately.

<Vonn, give the signal.> she told her dragon.

Vonn sent the 'go' signal to the assembled riders and the rainbow of
dragons lifted into the air, each dragon settling into a formation the
dragons felt comfortable with. They flew as one, high into the skies over
the dead vulcano, which was now the living Warren.

Meena formed the image of the campsite where they had found the warrior
riding behind her. She figured it was a good place to begin their search.
She had Vonn send the image to all the dragons, making sure they all had it
firmly before giving the order to teleport.

In an instant the rocky hieght of the warren vanished and they were flying
over a forested area, and Meena recognized the smooshed foilage where
Werenth and Vonn had landed to investigate. <Vonn, begin a circular search
pattern looking for other signs of campsites, raiders .. anything out of
the ordinary. Have Werenth circle south, we'll circle north with Tergath.>

Vonn nodded in agreement and sent the message and soon the dragons had
split into two groups. Each on a search.. but a search for what?? The
dragon riders had to depend on their dragons keen eyesight, and their own
experience to search for anything out of the ordinary.

Demee
***

The little boy, now four and a half was tired of playing with his toys. He
could hear his grandfather in the kitchen baking. Granpa Hered loved to
bake. And he make the best breads and rolls. But Demee was itching to get
out of the apartment, and he knew Granpa would be busy for a long time. He
pouted slightly.

Then he picked up Sammyantha, his favorite toy dragon, and  headed toward
the entrance of the large dragon chamber. He stood on the edge looking out
at the vastness of the Warren. He knew very well, that if he were to cross
the line from inside the apartment, to outside the apartment, he would be
in trouble. Mama had told him many times he was never to leave the
apartment without an adult.

Demee wouldn't have even thought about leaving if he wasn't so bored.
Usually he had Alyne and Lars to play with. But they were with their mother
for the day.  Sometimes he had Vonn to play with .. but she was out flying
with Mama. He had been playing a great game with Granpa, that had involved
singing and dancing .. well, okay Granpa hadn't danced, but he had sung ..
But Granpa said he needed to do some baking so they'd have rolls for dinner.

Demee sighed as he continued to stand on the brink of disobeying a hard and
fast rule. He squatted down, bouncing on his toes as he played with the
loose sand that had escaped from Vonn's bed .. A frown marred his tiny face
as his hand ran patterns over the sandy floor.  Mama did a lot of sweeping
on this area of the floor and a lot of yelling at Vonn to keep her sand in
her bed.

He crawled closer to Vonn's bed and the deeper sand and layed Sammyantha in
the sand. He knew Vonn didn't like him to put toys in her bed .. not since
she'd had to have her hind end bandaged when she'd accidently layed on a
particularly sharp one ..

He sighed .. there were so many rules...

"Demee," he heard Granpa say, "Vonn won't be happy if you leave Sammyantha
in her sand."

"I won't," the boy said quickly pulling the toy dragon out of the sand and
brushing her off.

Hered smiled at the boy. "I'm almost done, and they we can play some more,
okay?"

Demee grinned, "Okay."

He watched as Granpa headed back into the kitchen and he waited with
anticipation for him to finish whatever it was he had to finish .. but the
time seemed to drag on .. for minutes pass much more slowly at four and a
half then they do for someone as ancient as Granpa.

He then spotted the large version of his Sammyantha lounging on the green
only a short distnce away. She shimmered in the sun and he wondered if
Sammyantha would do that do .. He wondered if maybe the queen would like to
see his Sammyantha. He closed his eyes and concentrated, <Would you like to
see my Sammyantha.>

He opened his eyes and could see the queens head turned toward him. He
accepted that as a yes, and happily ran out to her. As he ran he wasn't
aware that Amethyst was actually much further away then she looked. She was
a large dragon and could be seen from a great distance. She was much larger
the Vonn.  He stepped up the dragons head and held out the tiny toy, <See.
It's you!>

Regards,
Meena & Vonn
Demee

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