Searching "Mayeth, are you sure that you want to Search here?  You know that Dark Moon's Weyrwoman has had complaints about Nerloi trying to boss the other weyrlings around," Amaykala said.  "And you said yourself that you only want the best for your children." There are two good ones here, Mayeth replied calmly and surely.  One of them definately fit for my clutch...  A male.  Him over there.  Hey!  You!  No, not you, you big blundering block!  You! The green shouted mentaly, loud enough for everyone to hear her.  Xanvar!  Yes, you big lump, I'm talking to you! Amaykala chuckled as the lad, around 17 Turns, jogged confusedly up to Amaykala and Mayeth.  "Xanvar, I think that Mayeth thinks you would be good enough for some of her children," she said, and Xanvar seemed to almost light up.  "She says that theres one more that's worthy, she thinks, but we'll keep on looking while you go and get packed." Is there another worthy one, Mayeth? Amaykala asked her dragon privately.  Because I don't want any of your children to not find their right lifemate, you know.  I want only the best, as do you. The green pondered the question for a moment, her faceted blue-green eyes flicking up and down the row of Candidates.  Amaykala, I don't think so.  I thought that boy over there...  Ver something might make a good Candidate, but now that I look at him the more I realize that he won't make a good Candidate.  He's fat, ugly, and all of my children would hate him. Amaykala chuckled some more.  "No female drudges?  We seem to do extrordinarily well on picking out drudge Candidates.  Some of them Impress pretty high, too." Mayeth pondered for a moment more.  No, I'm sure.  None for my clutch.  Maybe for Ambranth's, Desariath's, or Rayeth's.  We'll have to come back later after my clutch hatches, okay? "Anything that you say, darling," Amaykala agreed.  "Your eggs are special...  Because they're your's, and so we only want the best.  It's going to take a while to fill up all of the spaces, though, if you keep on being this picky." My eggs will wait for the right Candidates, Mayeth said assuredly.  And here comes Xanvar.  I really do like him, Amaykala.  Not as much as Sival, but I do like him.  I think that he might get a terra, if he's lucky.  He thinks that he's only good enough for a sapphire, if that, though.  We sure do seem to be getting alot of modest Candidates at Ocean Side! "Modesty is a virtue," Amaykala said.  "He sure doesn't have very much stuff for a Lord Holder's son, does he?" Xanvar handed his pack up to Amaykala, who set it next to her, then helped him to clamber up onto the green dragon's back.  "Thank you very much," He said.  "I don't think that I ever expected this." Amaykala shrugged.  "Well, Xanvar, you can get things that you never expected.  Like being Searched.  We're going to go between, which is scary if you've never done it.  So just count..." Xanvar nodded as Amaykala told him everything that he needed to do, feeling totally elated. Next Stats