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So, bonding exercises. It seemed simple enough, on the surface - deepening her bond with her dragon hardly sounded difficult to Nashwa. Really, her only concern was being separated from her dragon, and not because either one of them suffered from anxiety, but because she worried about what Ilaorunth might get up to or into while not under direct supervision. While the young gold was by no means a rabblerouser, nor was she as exhaustingly active as certain other clutchmates, her obsessions with boys and attention rendered her distractable at best, and selfish at worst. She had a way of selectively forgetting that actions had consequences for which she would be responsible, and given their partners for this particular exercise, Nashwa was especially aware of that.

Hide and seek should, theoretically, be easy enough, and she hoped it actually would be. The more quickly they were reunited with their dragons, the less she would have to worry. "Now, we're going to go hide," she said aloud, though she'd already thoroughly explained everything to Ilaorunth more than once, and took the still-fairly-small gold's snout in her hands to kiss. It wouldn't be long at all before they couldn't do this sort of thing indoors. "You stay right here until we tell you to come look for us."

I don't know why you're fussing so much, Mine! We'll be just fine, won't we, Triesteth? She moved to butt affectionately against her sister. Everything was sure to go just splendidly!

Nashwa summoned a smile and looked to R'thell. "Ready?"

With the walls in her mind thoroughly shored up, and once they were out of sight of their dragons, Nashwa asked as they walked, "Any ideas?" Of course she'd thought about some possibilities herself - in spite of trying not to think about it ahead of time, which was utterly impossible - so the best solution was to hash it out now. "Or shall we just go until we see a likely spot?"

Perhaps Triesteth, unlike Ilaorunth, wasn't actively trying to worm her way through her bonded's defenses in an attempt to cheat.

After all but preening at Triesteth's assertion that she, Ilaorunth, would be the best seeker of them all, the gold watched the pair of humans depart, effectively leaving them to their own devices for a bit - though she knew full well that, in spite of any temptations she might have to go nosing around or get up to one thing or another, supervision wasn't actually far away, even if Hers had carefully shut her out for the time being. Not that the young dragon didn't try to peek, as the ultimate task of finding their riders would be much easier if she could just spy on where they were going in the first place!

Alas, Nashwa was quite the stickler for tasks and rules, and was also well aware of her bonded's predilections, and so the gold was quite firmly shut out. Ilaorunth huffed out a little sigh and answered Triesteth, Mine is very efficient, but she will also want to find a good spot. And she will consult with Yours, of course. So not very long, I think, but not so quickly that it will seem they have rushed.

But still, long enough that just standing here doing nothing would quickly get boring. What a pity that they couldn't go venturing off! Well...not far, anyway. Shall we sit and see if anyone interesting happens by in the meantime? Perhaps even a cute boy! A dragon, a human she could tell Hers about later, either would be exciting! If not, they could always play, but Nashwa had been very careful to remind her to be most gentle with her green sister.

With a dragonet so thoroughly obsessed with boys - and not only blue, brown, and bronze ones for herself, but human ones for Hers - Nashwa had had to get good at pushing Ilaorunth away from where she didn't belong, and fast. The gold didn't seem to understand that there were strict rules about new riders and certain thoughts and feelings for very good reason and was forever trying to dig up details about her romantic past, and worse still, shoving attractive new options at her. Or if it wasn't boys, it was attempted distractions from whatever work or task was at hand, pleading temptations to go relax or have a little fun instead. Come on, Mine, what could the harm be?

"Ilaorunth does love her distractions," Nashwa said with a sigh. "Faranth forbid she find a handsome boy to talk to, she might decide finding us isn't worth the time." All this was said with as much affection as anything; she did adore her dragon, but had a sense of humor about managing certain...hedonistic tendencies. Better to recognize them from the beginning than to have a beast of a problem on her hands later. "Hmm. Inside or outside? More dragons to get distracted over outside, but depending on where they nose around inside, they may or may not get in someone's way."

It was six of one, half a dozen of the other, really.

She is very clever indeed, Ilaorunth agreed proudly, a little sashay to her step as she moved to find a good people- and dragon-watching spot. Not too far from the Barracks, of course...within sight of them would surely not get them in any sort of trouble! It was only for a little while, anyway, until they got the go-ahead from Theirs to start the search. Here should do nicely, I think, she pronounced when she judged a spot worthy, turning a circle to assess all the sightlines. She then settled into a most regal pose to recline, and from there could decide on what position relative to her own would best suit her sister.

Perhaps if you sit there, the young Queen suggested, indicating placement beside her but just slightly offset so that she herself would be the most forwardly placed, and there would be enough room for them both to look at their best advantage. From here I'm sure we'll see the best of the boys that come by, and of course they'd have to be blind not to notice us. We'll be entertained in no time, my dear.