How to Capture a Woman

Writers: Eimi, Ames
Date Posted: 6th March 2011

Characters: R'mer, Janani
Description: Janani decides to get to know a young bronzerider better
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 13, day 27 of Turn 5
Notes: Mentions: Qorri, N'vanik

Janani was out and about on her 'usual' morning walk. She liked to
take a stroll around the bowl a few times each day. It gave her the
chance to meet and talk with many of the riders. She was still
learning everyone's names and positions, but she thought she had most
of the down by now. Some of the riders, though, she still hadn't met
yet, and she found this was a good time to try and bump into someone
for a nice little chat.

She smiled and greeted a few of her fellow riders and the other
residents of the Weyr, stopping to see to a young child who had fallen
and scraped her knee. Janani liked children, though she'd never had
any of her own, she thought she might actually make a good mother. But
of course with all her duties now, she probably wouldn't have time to
even visit with a child if she had one. Still, helping the young girl
brought a smile to her face as she continued her rounds around the
Bowl.

R'mer had been nearby when the sound of a child crying had caught his
attention. He noticed the goldrider bending down to help her and
watched as she tended to the child. As Janani stood to her full height
and sent the child on her way, she hadn't noticed that something had
fallen out of her pocket. The bronzerider rolled up the wing formation
he had been studying and walked over to pick it up for her. By
the time he had it in his hand she had all but disappeared around a
bend. "Excuse me!" he called, taking after her at a jog.

Janani heard the call and stopped. Turning around she noticed the
youthful rider approaching. She knew him. R'mer. They hadn't talked
personally yet, but she'd made it a point to know the bronzeriders as
they were _very_ important to her in many ways.

"R'mer," she addressed him with a smile. "What can I do for you?" He
had never approached her before and she was pleased he felt so
inclined to do so now. He was young and rather thin, but Janani
couldn't help eying the muscles she saw rippling underneath him as he
moved lithely towards her.

The fact that she knew his name, and the smile on her face, made a
slight blush rise to his face. A small smile of his own turned up his

lips. It made him feel a little important. "You dropped this."

Janani looked down at his hand and her mouth formed a tiny o shape.
Dangling from his fingers was the bracelet she normally wore around
her wrist. A gift from her parents just months before she'd been
chosen to stand for the hatching that had changed her life.

"Thank you, R'mer. I would have been heartbroken had I lost this." She
gently reached for the bracelet, allowing her fingers to brush against
his hand. He was rather cute, she told herself. Young, yes, but the
young bronze riders had much potential in them, in so many ways.

"Would you care to walk with me a bit? We haven't really had a chance
to get to know one another?"

"Uh... of course." He hadn't been looking for a walking partner, but
one did not say no to those who outranked them. And Janani always
would. R'mer fell into step with her, though not sure what he could say
to entertain her. "It's good weather today," he said, lamely grabbing
at polite conversation.

Janani stopped, turned to him and smiled. "Yes, R'mer it is." She could
tell he was uncomfortable. Sliding her arm into his with a smile and
wink, she continued walking, "Tell me about yourself R'mer. Were you
born in the Weyr? A hold? I'd like to get to know you better." She
couldn't help but give the muscles she felt in his arm a bit of a squeeze. She loved
the feel of masculine muscles under her fingers.

He resisted the urge to jump as he felt her fingers tighten. R'mer was
still not quite used to all the touching that went on in the Weyr,
though some of it he found rather pleasant. In fact, it made him feel a
little proud that he had a goldrider on his arm! "I was holdbred,
ma'am. Well, not even a Hold, actually. Just a farm."

She felt just the slightest change in him and tried to relax the hand
she'd snaked through his arm to help make him more comfortable.

"I was holdbred as well, many turns ago now. Time has surely changed so
many things in my life, as I'm sure they have for you as well." Seeing a
bench up ahead, Janani pointed at it. "Would you care to sit for a bit
in the shade?"

He was sad when her hand relaxed against him. The feeling had been
quite nice, for all that he was uncomfortable with the newness of it.
Her offer took away his disappointment, though he wasn't sure if he
would be up to her standards of conversation. "Yeah, all right."

"Wonderful," she smiled brightly at him as she led them to the bench. "I
could use a nice cool respite in the shade." Sitting on the bench,
Janani placed herself rather close to the young bronzerider. She had
long ago lost any sense of personal space as she'd made her way from
partner to partner over the turns. "So how have you been enjoying you
time at Dolphin Cove? Do you have a craft you enjoy in your spare time, what
little of that there is? Or perhaps a special someone here whose
captured your interest?" Janani couldn't help but be a bit personal. He was young and
a bit on the thin side, but being young meant he would be strong and virile as
well.

"Um, well..." The headwoman came to mind, but that had been more fun
than special. Eleada had captured his interest, but chasing her hadn't
been much fun. "No, no one special." And a craft? What could he do?
He was just a dumb farmer from the back of /between/ who could still
barely write his own name, let alone study! "I do a lot of watch
duties. I like those."

"Hmm," she murmured, unable to resist the urge to trace her fingers
along the muscle in his arm. "Watch duties are all fine and good, but
you need to find a way to relax, to unwind. I myself have always loved
leather. Twas my father's craft, but I so desperately wanted to make it
my own. I dabble here and there when I have a spare moment or two." **I dabble in
many things,** she thought with a knowing smile on her face. He _was_
young, perhaps she should push any such thoughts from her mind. Though he could
have just as easily won her flight as the next bronzerider. Had he
joined the flight?

"Did," she paused and reached out to Angdelouth for his dragon's name,
"Hanunth join in Angdelouth's Flight? Such times make it difficult for
me to recall who was and who wasn't there."

He felt the most pleasant tingle where her fingers traced up his arm.
Holding himself very still in the hopes that she wouldn't stop he said
softly, "Yes, ma'am."

"I'm glad to hear that," she murmured with a smile in his direction. "I
still find it hard to believe you haven't caught the eye of all the
young ladies in the Weyr. They should be flocking to your door, at least
that's what they did when I was a young rider." She smiled at his
reactions to her gentle caress.

"I don't flirt enough, I guess." It seemed the slightly older riders
were more interested in him than the ones his own age. "You're still a
young rider, though."

She laughed, a happy, joyful sound at his compliment. "Now, _that_ was
the way to flirt, R'mer! Perhaps I could teach you a few things to help
you catch yourself a few of those eager young maids around the Weyr. If,
that is, you are interested?" She smiled knowingly at him, wondering if
he would accept her offer. N'vanik hadn't been back to share her bed since
the Flight, and she wouldn't mind a little excursion at the moment. It
wouldn't keep her from completing her tasks for the day, but it _would_
be a nice reprieve from the all the work.

R'mer froze for a moment. Did the Weyrwoman seriously just proposition
him? Was there something in the water that was making all the weyr
women go nuts? First the Headwoman and now the _Weyrwoman_? Did they
not know that he was an ignorant farm boy barely out of weyrlinghood and
the bottom of wing ranking? She couldn't be serious. This kind of
thing didn't just happen to young bronzeriders. Did it? "Ma'am, are
you teasing me?" he asked, seriously wondering if he had misread the
whole conversation.

She sighed at his reaction and removed her hand from him. "Ah, R'mer, I
don't tease about such matters, normally. Perhaps now is not the time
for such things after all." She surely did not wish to push the younger
rider into things he didn't seem as interested in. "I'm sure you have
matters to see to, as I always do as well."

Shards, he had really stepped in it, hadn't he. It was an honest enough
question! "Ma'am," he said as his face turned pink with embarrassment,
"I grew up in a place where every girl I met was related to me. I don't
know nothing about what's in a woman's head, let alone her words. If I
offended you, I'm sorry. I don't know what you want from me."

"R'mer, you've not offended me at all. Do not worry on such things. I
may not be your type, R'mer, but if you're ever looking for a partner, I
would be open to it, but I think perhaps not this morn." She patted his
arm gently. "You're sweet R'mer. I'd like to get to know you better.
Stop by my weyr sometime and I'll help you with ways to attract girls who
_aren't_ you're relatives." She smiled at him before rising. "I am
afraid I'm going to have to see to some other matters right now though."

The bronzerider watched her stand to go, feeling like a complete idiot,
though not knowing what he could have done differently. Why couldn't
women just say plainly what they wanted from him? It wasn't so hard,
was it? Sure, she had offered to teach him, but so had Eleada, and she
had strung him along, dangling the promise of something and making him
want her in every way possible. But in the end she only every treated
him like a kid. Well, R'mer was no boy and he was not going to play
that game again.

Rising after her he caught her hand. "Wait."

Janani stopped and turned to look at him. "Yes?" She asked, wondering if
he had already considered her offer.

**She's just a woman...** the bronzerider repeated to himself to give
him a bit of courage as his fingers curled around the Weyrwoman's neck and he pulled her closer into
a rather bold kiss. When their lips parted he whispered rather hoarsely, "You
can find _me_."

She was stunned but smiling when he pulled away. "Now, _that_ R'mer is
how to capture a woman. I'll stop by to see you after I finish my duties
this morning. I _really_ hope you'll be free as I'd like to try _that_
again." She winked at him and then turned to go.

R'mer was left with a rather proud smile on his face and a rush of
excitement running through his veins. He had just kissed the Weyrwoman.
The _Weyrwoman_! And she wanted to see him again. When her duties
were done, he'd be free. He'd make sure of it.

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