2024-07-24 - This Land, That Land

The Holders are interesting to Neath. They're not the same as the weyrfolk - they think differently. None of them seem to have bonded with a dragon at all - any former Holders who have are counted as weyrfolk, it seems. Neath has to wonder why none of them ever go back. Is it a bad life? Why don't they all just come to the Weyr, then?

Two of them have come to the Weyr today, but it's because they're having an argument. Mother and Shayled seem to find it quite silly. Neath is sure it must be if they think so, but they don't seem to find some of the things it thinks are silly silly the same way it does, so maybe not...? It strains towards the conversation and tries to listen in. One needs water. The other has it and won't share. It is silly. Neath can just barely avoid ignoring the conversation entirely. Hasn't it heard some of the older weyrfolk scolding their children for similar squabbles? Why, then, are these adults making it Mother's problem? It had found them interesting just moments ago, but now it wants them to go away.

A rotten thing, Mother says. A rotten thing indeed. Neath can't imagine ever being so petty and selfish. If they have something somebody needs, why don't they just share it? Shayled had mentioned 'payment' and this is ridiculous to Neath too. If it is needed, why can it not be given freely? Does even Shayled buy into such greedy nonsense, or was it just said to pacify the water-hoarder? It thinks, not for the first time and likely not for the last, that it will abide no such behaviour from any human. They will not have it, and it will not have them.