1 - Hatching
It will happen in the mid-morning. The tents are opened up, showing the eggs to the sun and sky and everyone around. The candidates are clustered in close, but there’s no real distinction between their number and the weyrfolk and out-weyr spectators; no fence, no stands.
In stark contrast to every other hatching at Dunespike since time immemorial -- it is open. There are no crowded Stands where weyrfolk cluster close, no stiff competition to be among the handful of dragons present at all. The buttes around are flowering with dragons all hanging perilously, Dunespike and out-weyr, all humming with such a force it seems to come from your bones. The entirety of Pern is here, it seems.
Gwillanth sits to the east, reluctantly releasing her tempering influence on the eggs, trying not to look like she’s straining to see. Pertemarth is right next to her, two of Mi’dar’s weyrbrats sitting on his shoulders for a good view. Closer to the tents, inside the ring of candidates, a small group of healers prepare themselves, waiting to step in for any egg that needs help hatching or any dragonet who hatches disabled.
And further back, a heaping cartful of fresh-seared herdbeast, tender and easy for the hatchlings to digest. The weyrlingmasters pace, hoping to scribe a full set of names today and leave no blanks...
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Return to Scene 647, linked below, and pull out the parts of the hatching that deal with your dragonet. Feel free to revise, reinterpret, or add things to make your dragonet's particular journey the sole focus. Make it flow as one long, cohesive scene that is your dragonet's entrance into the world.
If you interacted particularly with one or more other people, be respectful of their writing as you reinterpret your specific hatching journey.
Do you more fully describe their thoughts as they beat and batter at their egg? Do you spend more time on the shock of the bright, loud world? Do you spend more time searching, or talking to others, than you did in the event? How much focus do you put on each element of the hatching? How does your dragonet find their bondmate? Feel free to play up the order of events or interact with NPCs that you didn't call out to in the main event.
https://dragonflydreams.aresmush.com/scene/647