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There's going to be quite an Author's Note at the end, that might contain information that interests those reading the story, but without further ado, I give you wonderful perople, Chapter Seven of The Speckled Egg.


Chapter Seven

Change

I jolted awake abruptly, trying to escape the scolding words from my dream. It was always the same memory replaying, the shouted, "Slather, slater, slather! I can't-" Then the rest of L'nar's words would be cut out by a dragon screaming. I took a deep breath to calm my shaking, then glanced over at Daihanath. I frowned lightly as I realized she had fallen asleep sunning herself right before I had decided to take my brief nap.

She's been doing that a lot lately, I grimace lightly at the thought, but also feel a slight sense of relief at her being asleep. I usually hated it when she slept due to the lack of reassurance and calm that her presence usually brought me. Recently I had been learning to enjoy my alone time, seeing as how whenever she was awake now, she was easily irritated, which in turn made me short-tempered.

I let my thoughts trail away as I began to get ready for the day. Renegath had another gold egg hardening on the sands, which was causing discomfort and unhappiness to infiltrate the rest of the queens. Once this one hatched there would be six queens in the weyr, when Renegath barely tolerated five.

I contemplated the discussion about what the solution to the problem would be as I quickly brushed through my chin length hair. The mutual agreement had been that we should transfer the egg, but the question now was where it would go. Both High Reaches Weyr and Beneden were short on queens at the moment, although High Reaches seemed to be the more favorable seeing as they only had one queen who was slightly aging without producing another Queen egg. Slightly lost in thought I began to travel towards the kitchens, Rayne had traveled to High Reaches to discuss the matter with them yesterday, and was due back today.

I jolted from my thoughts as a frustrated voice sounded in my head. Where are you? Daihanath demanded of me, I have been awake now for quote some time, and you've been staring into the corner for most of it. Don't you have more important things to do? You do have a meeting to attend once Rayne arrives back in the Weyr. I rubbed my arm in annoyment at the fact that Dai was right, I had stopped in a corner and turned back around.

I was going to get food, I responded as I started back towards our room, However, I think I've lost my appetite. I'm coming back now.

Check your riding gear. I think you might have a hole in something. Daihanath calmly stated as she reclined back into the sun while I entered the room. I bit the inside of my cheek as I pulled out jacket, resisting the urge to respond and turning my mind to menial things while I searched the clothing. When I was almost finished inspecting the sleeves Dai interrupted my work. Renegath is back. Rayne wants you and the others to meet where you met before.

"Thank you Daihanath." I reached over and lightly stroked her side, before dropping the jacket onto the bed for further inspection once I returned, setting off to the abandoned room where I had been meeting with the other weyrwomen recently. I hummed lightly to calm and distract myself from Daihanath's agitation as a cloud blocked the sun.

I slid into the remaining seat and ceased humming when I arrived, clasping my hands in front of me before placing my attention on Rayne. She coughed lightly before speaking, "I've talked to both Zyza of Benden, and Tilly of High Reaches. Zyza informed me that they have a queen egg already warming on their sands now, and we both came to an agreement that it would be in the best interest not to have two queens of a very close age in the same weyr." I felt her gaze slide over Kyra and I, "For the very obvious reason of mating flights." I crossed my ankles as other eyes trailed over Kyra and I, resisting the urge to lower my hazel gaze. "Seeing as we are already at a very precariously balanced amount of queens at the moment, we will be transferring another one of our queens with the egg." Her eyes trained on me, and my stomach knotted in on itself, before I gave her a slight nod. Rayne smiled briefly before continuing, "Courtney shall be going along with a few other of our riders, and a few High Reaches riders will be coming here."

I zoned out for the rest of the meeting, before standing as soon as we were dismissed, turning on my heel and walking from the room.


Wow, so, it's been a really long time since I've updated this. I think it's going on one or two years since my last update? I'm really sorry guys. And it's actually past midnight where I live right now where I'm updating. I feel really guilty, but as of now, this story is being put on hold. I will most likely pick it up again sometime, but there's no guarantee that it will be anytime soon. Things got really busy for me last year, I made a play and a musical at my school, which for the people who know me it's pretty big that I even auditioned for them because I'm the type of person that gets jittery if they even have to answer a question in class. I also tried to juggle Field Hockey and the Musical at the same time, which resulted in me getting little sleep seeing as I still had four honors and one AP class to do homework for. I'm surpised that I survived. I barely had time to write, and when I did, I did not what to write anything remotely serious. Which resulted in me start writing a different Fanfiction that I won't be uploading onto here until it's actually done. But it's not at all DRoP related, actually, it's Hetalia, which might garner some people's irritation because I know that the fandom isn't really known for it's...sanity? I have no clue what I mean by that, but, well, yeah. It's highly likely that this is getting a bit rambly, so I'll try and keep it short...well...shorter...I've actually been holding onto this chapter for almost since the last time I updated, and my friend so graciously told me, "Y'know, people might be hating you know for not updating." And that sort of spurred me on to update. I started this during my Freshman year I believe, and that's also when I think I last updated it, And I figured that maybe I should upload before I start my Junior year when things are sure to be more hectic, although the college I've been thinking about probably doesn't need me to be spazzing over my grades like I do, I probably won't have much time to do anything seeing as I will now be doing two AP courses and three possibly four honors courses. I've been learning quite a lot about myself lately, and while I still enjoy DRoP, there's a lot more things that I'm interested in now, like sculpting. I'm actually a pretty good sculptor and a painter and art in general, which I thought I totally sucked at before, just like how I thought I totally sucked at acting, but after the last show, someone who graduated came up and told me that they'd be coming to shows next year and I had better be in them because I have talent. My afore mentioned friend has also been helping me create characters for an original thing that's we've been doing. And this has already grown in nearly twice the length I apologize! Sorry for any mistakes made in this chapter, I didn't do any editing at all, so I know for sure that there will be spelling mistakes, probably very stupid spelling mistakes at that. Reviews are, as always, appreciated, because I do read them, thank you~