Gold Gwillanth is a mid-sized, middle-aged gold; she and her bonded (Shayled) are second-most senior and are expected to inherit the Weyr when the Senior retires. They are considered respectable though unorthodox leaders. Both are consistent bridge-builders and believe in fostering diversity and encouraging riders and dragons to mingle with holdfolk.

Gwillanth flew during the rainy season, about midsummer. Bronze Yuakajth flew her and was insufferable about it for a week, though his rider appears to have beat some sense into him, and by the time the clutch was laid he was a calmer though perhaps excessively proud clutchsire. As has always been her habit, after her Flight Gwillanth retired with her weyrmate, Blue Pertemarth (a practice that is consistently blamed for her notably low rate of producing metallic hatchlings).

Gwillanth laid a very respectable 35 eggs in the Hatching Cavern after the rains passed, right at the beginning of autumn. The Weyr’s archivists scribbled down that the clutch contained no unusually stunted eggs or ones with dead, dull shells; eight large, fifteen medium, and twelve small eggs. They are expected to hatch in midautumn.

As always, as soon as Gwillanth calmed from her post-laying funk, Shayled began organizing entertainments for her gold and the clutch throughout the hardening.