K'mra's History
Kymra was born in a
small mountain cothold in the High Reaches to parents Klostan and Lamara. She was
scond-youngest of six childern - six inhibited, repressed children, in her opinion.
Woolybeasts (llamas) were raised at her cothold, and Kymra loathed the beasts, to her
parent's dismay. The other children were "proper," after all, why couldn't Kymra
be? Her siblings taunted and teased the reluctant child, and Kymra's parents slowly
begrudged the girl the trouble she caused.
Kymra finally left the cothold, striking out on her own. She spent a few years at a hold
beholden to Crom, called Copper Stream. It was mainly a minehold, but Holder Haric agreed
to take on the wandering teen if she helped in the kitchens. Kymra consented, and
the Holder's spouse, Rissana, instantly befriended the thirteen-Turn-old girl. Rissana
took on Kymra's education, teaching her to read and write, though Kym still has trouble
with those subjects. She also learned and memorized the Duty Song and her Charter rights
under Rissana's instruction.
Kymra left once more, self-confident and bold. Her travels took her to Telgar Weyr, where
unexpectadly, she decided to stay for 'just a little while.' A little while lengthened as
Kymra made friends with the recent Candidates - Kayra, Lorren, Zoe, Sasha, Delsi, and
Catiri. When nearly all of her aquantances Impressed, Kymra couldn't help but feel a
little pang of jealousy. Wistful and headstrong, she gained residency and the Weyr and
soon settled into the routine.
Turns later, Kymra was awoken by an insistant Kayra shaking her awake - seems Tryth (Kayra's
brown lifemate) and Adrith (L'ren's bronze) had decided to be nuisances, and L'ren and Kay
had decided to enlist Kym's help with their morning baths. After a candlemark of scrubbing
at both bronze and brown hides, Tryth determined that he deserved more attention than
Adrith, and snugly wrapped his tail about Kymra's waist. The bronze was not to be outdone,
and the poor girl became the subject of a dragonic tug-of-war. When a thoroughly doused
Kymra finally escaped their grasps, the riders informed her that she was wanted to Stand
for Aramyth and Taimath's hardening clutch. A shocked Kymra could do nothing but agree,
and she was formally introduced into Telgar Weyr Candidacy.
Informally, though -- that was another matter! Withen days, Kymra fell into the routine:
namely, chores and pranks. Near the end of her Candidacy, Kymra and a group of others were
allowed to visit the Sands for an egg-touching. Under Isobel and A'ea's watchful gaze, the
Candidate laid fingers on her favorites: Eight Days Of Darkness Egg, Turnabout
Candlelit Egg, Vernal Phoenix Egg, and Summer Sunwheel Egg.
Hatching day arrived at long last. While the dragons hummed, Candidates hurriedly slipped
into their robes, then marched onto the Sands. Kym, while shuffling scorched feet, watched
her friends Impress - Tiarla and brown Chorith, Sulinka and green Tercath, Laria and green
Sidereth. The last egg in the clutch, Summer Sunwheel Egg finally cracked, leaving One
Jump Ahead Brown Hatchling dodging through miniture dunes. And to Kymra he dashed in
search of a safe haven, proclaiming,
<<Tyranoth, I am called. And we, Kymra, are in for some crazy
times.>>
Weyrlinghood was the time when Kymra -- now K'mra -- learned more than she'd ever dreamed
possible of dragons and her own lifemate, Tyranoth. The bonds of Candidacy grew tighter
day by day as weyrlings shared the glories of their dragons: first kill, first flight,
betweening. But graduation day arrived all too soon, and K'mra was awarded the knot of a
Telgar Weyr Wingrider. Several sevendays passed before one fateful morning when Kym fell
asleep in the caverns, sprawled on a rickety chair. A well-placed kick from Skyskimmer's
Wingleader, A'ea, and the chair collapsed. K'mra was given a sturdier chair - one at the
Skyskimmer table. A chair with a brown bit on it, she's certain, and a badge to match.
Kym's Firelizards
Pestilence
Kym's Logs
