~Kiana_Nala~
It was the day after the dreadful hatching. Yet another hatching that she'd walked away from without a dragon. That really wasn't what had bothered her the most though. It had been the sheer viciousness of these hatchlings. The aggressive repeated maulings and the death clouded what should have been a happy time.
Rinis had managed to hold it mostly together during the actual hatching. She'd even gone so far to help the green who'd killed a boy get to the healers with some others. Once she'd left the sands though, her walls had simply crumbled. She'd cried most of the night, and hadn't slept very well.
Today she'd stumbled through what chores had been asked of her. The life of a lowly candidate didn't change much. Not like the prestige the new weyrlings were getting. No once she'd finished for the day, she'd gone to find a quiet beach to watch the sun set. She needed time to sort her thoughts. Those young dragons who'd been such terrors on the sands, would, no should be safe to be around now. Right?
Plus she still needed to work through her emotions about the whole situation. And come to terms that she was still in fact a candidate. Rinis was sitting in the warm sand, staring but maybe not truly seeing the spectacular sunset before her. Chaek, her brown firelizard, was perched on her shoulder, cheeping worriedly and reassuringly in her ear.