Chapter Title: Watching A Pot
Chapter Summary: Pern's relationship with it's Weyr is not a happy one.
Flash fic set Dragonflight era; craft and holder gossip. Lessa is a mini celebrity.
Dragonmen steal girls. This is a known fact, muttered about over drinks and late meals. The harvest is bad, the roof sprung a leak, dragonmen steal away all the best girls.
The pretty ones, always the pretty ones. Usually holder's daughters, and every so often a trader comes through who's heard of a wife being carted off a-dragonback, and what can they do against? It is not the loss felt so often that it cannot be endured.
Taking a Lady Holder, one back from the dead with Fax's death? Now that sends tongues wagging, all the way to the gates of Benden itself. But Ruatha is a small hold, and poor, and the girl is gone. Cold looks have never stopped a dragonrider from going about their business, nor stingy tithe.