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Well the Fort Hold will be opening up under my (Jupiter) instruction soon so I'm fixing these first posts. If you plan on staying at Fort Hold and not moving on to Fort Weyr to try your luck at impressing let me know through pm. Any who wish to stay at Fort Hold and keep it alive would be much apprieciated.

((Well being as I don't know for sure the time range between Fort Weyr and Fort Hold I'm going to start them out the morning after the one Fort Weyr is currently on.))

Adli awoke to a bright light that was coming in through the small slitted windows of his room. The bed which Adli slept in was positioned just right for the light to hit him directly in the face in the morning. Adli yawned immencely and sat up in bed. Mornings being Adli's favorite times he easily swung his feet over the side of the bed and into a pair of slippers sitting at the edge of the bed. Quickly Adli made his way to the bathing chamber set up in a room attached to his bed chamber. Adli slipped off all his clothes and stepped into the warm soothing water. Sitting down slowly Adli stretched out in the large bath letting the water warm his body down to the bones.

Meanwhile in another bed chamber a few doors down from Adli's chanber was Jeslyn's room, Adli's daughter. Jeslyn was still fast asleep even with the light from the windows she never stirred. However a bright green little blob curled up at the very edge of Jeslyn's bed soon began to move the morning calling and awakening the little flit. Still rather sleepy the green flit climbed to the top of Jeslyn's bed moving along the side of Jeslyn's body until she reached Jeslyn's head. Chirping in Jeslyn's ear a few times Jeslyn just moaned and swatted at the flit. The flit chirped in annoyance and plopped herself down on Jeslyn's face chirping happily. Jeslyn quickly began to squirm and picked up the green flit. "Sally!" Jeslyn said sitting up and turning the flit around to look at her. "I'm up ok." Sally chirped satisfied as Jeslyn set her down and then she flew off heading back to Adli's room.

((*Hits herself hard on the head* Darn it! I forgot! Sally's a little kitten! xp Darn it! *Hits head on the wall* Man I feel like an idiot. xp Ok just to clear this up Sally is a kitten. I am not changing my first RP post Sally is just going to change species because of my stupidity. sweatdrop ))

Sally ran past the drudge now cowering in the floor. Not really caring Sally ran on to Adli's bedroom door still in sight of the drudge and began meowing and scratching at the door. Adli immediately opened the door and allowed entry to the little calico kitten. Adli before closing the door again glanced around the hallway but instead of finding nothing Adli spotted the drudge on the floor shaking but before he could say a thing she was up again and off to her task.

Adli sighed and walked back into his room and looked over at Sally who was now sitting on the very edge of Adli's bed cleaning her fur. Sitting down beside the little kitten Adli began to pet her with a smile on his face as Sally began to purr.

Walking in a hurried rush down the hallways of the Hold was a dark man his features set and buff from the many years of hard labor he had done. The man's expression was blank but his posture and rush showed a bit of worry. It wasn't long till he reached the door he was heading for a knocked with a sense of urgency. Inside there was a bustle of noise and scrambling and seconds later Adli opened the door a suprised look on his face. But before Adli could say anything the man spoke.

"Lord Adli sir! The Watch Wher. He's dead sir!" The man said quickly. Adli went from suprised to shock.

"What?! How?" Adli said quickly and then pulled the man into his room and closed the door.

"He died of extensive thread scores." The man said after the door was completely closed.

"But how?! I saw the Watch Wher early last night he was fine. How could he threadscores between then and now?" Adli asked sitting down on his bed. This was bad now what were they to do? That Watch Wher had been their only protection and without it they were defenseless.

"A Threadfall sir. Thread fell not far from the Southern Boll not hours ago." The man said. This completely confused Adli.

"A Threadfall at night? But it's not possible." Adli said shaking his head in disbelief.

The man sighed and shifted uneasily on his feet. "Well it is. Fort Weyr fought the thread along with many Watch Wher's and flits. There were extensive injuries to all."

Adli sighed placing his head in his hands for a few moments and then looked back up at the man. "Where is the Watch Wher?"

"Outside sir. He landed in front of the hold but died only minutes later." The man said backing up as Adli stood up with a discouraged expression on his face.

"Arrange for his body to be disposed of." Adli said and the man quickly nodded and left. Adli sighed and glanced down at his feet where Sally was rubbing against his legs for attention. Reaching down Adli picked up Sally and petted her a small smile appearing on his face.

Aleydis' head snapped up from the runner that he was inspecting when the faint sound of keening filled the air. Stepping from the shadows of the stables, he squinted up the hill to the entrance to Fort Hold and spied a crowd gathered around...something; was it a person? Had someone died? He wondered if the flits' reaction had something to do with it. After giving the runner he was tending to a gentle pat, he decided to go and investigate.

When he finally pushed his way unforgivingly through the crowd, the sight of he dead watchwher came into his vision. The poor beast was covered from tail to snout in fatal wounds, and the spirals of smoky crackdust that sifted off of it into the air were obvious evidence of threadscores. But that would mean a Fall, and the skies had been clear over Fort for days...not to mention the fact that the sun was just coming up. A murmer stole through the people around him as the speculation started. Without a word, he turned and made his way back to the stables; he would speculate on his own, without the bothersome chatter of theseingrates.

"I know I can not be classified as the most intelligent woman on Pern, dear, but won't the Weyr object to such a request? True, they have a watchwher as well, but the fact that we give them food is because it is our duty as Holders, as well as their continued protectance from Thread." She lifted her head to kiss his back a few times. "I'm not trying to ruin your plans, I believe it is worth a try, but don't be disappointed if they turn your request down. Though, if they do, you can request a watchwher from the next Clutch that is laid."

Adli sighed as he knew Aliandra was right. In these types of matters she was always right and he had grown to listen to her as she usually was able to keep him from doing something stupid. "I know it's probably just a waste of time but I am still going to ask them. If they turn us down they turn us down though after all we do for them they best have a very good excuse." Adli said turning around to face Aliandra giving her a smile and a kiss on the forehead before a knock came to their chamber door.

Adli chuckled looking over at the door and then back at Aliandra. "Never any peace." He said before going to the door and opening it to find a breathless runner. The runner quickly spoke of a crying girl at the gates. "Uh... Yes thank you." Adli said looking back at Aliandra with a sheepish smile. "Duty calls love. Shall we go see to this girl?" Adli asked motioning for her to come along being as the watch had asked for both of them.