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Kinye had never worn a dress this long to a feast and she wasn't sure if it perhaps didn't suit her properly. After all, long dresses were more meant for a proper woman, weren't they? A small frown creased her face as she did another turn to get a real feel for the fabric.

You look - and are - every part a proper adult, my dear. Metisoth informed her from where she green lounged next to the pair's new bunk - fighting off the thought of sleep when there were far more interesting parts of the evening to go and see. Even if, to her disappointment, they'd missed the early part of the night where the blue of the sky was fading into inky blackness. While the green did know what it looked like, she had been hoping to see it for herself.

"You'll get to see the beautiful colors of morning first and take the entire sky into consideration in order, though!" Kinye offered optimistically, still uncertain what Metisoth's interest in the sky was for at all, but having not questioned it in spite of this. Metisoth considered this suggestion and seemed pleased by it.

Of course, it was simply fair to give the entire sky's range of colors the time they wanted to take up and in the order they were meant to be seen.

And of course, there were other things to be seen that day and now that Kinye's waffling over if she really suited looking the part of a grown-up had been settled in but a few words from her dragon - Shards, hers - they could be off towards proper celebrations. There were a few small pauses before they were properly inside, of course - a pause to greet Elzebuth and Anakumath and receive congratulations from the queen's rider - before the pair stepped inside and Kinyegele immediately began her search for her mother.

She'd have looked for her father too, but given he'd been injured he'd likely have to wait at least a day or so before she could give him proper introductions as well.

Briefly, Kinye seemed to bounce between whether she should take one of the plates her mother held or to simply throw herself upon the woman in a hug. It was plainly clear where she got her glowing enthusiasm from, after all. Plate, free up one of your mothers arms for her dear, Metisoth advised gently and Kinye obliged readily. Then, she used her free arm to throw around Aly's neck for the ever so desired hug.

Metisoth overflowed with love - or rather, the overflow of boundless love from Kinye flooded into her, buoying her hearts in their deep waters that was familial affection. The green was, of course, familiar with it given her love for her own family (yes, even those who strained at practicality). But her own love had not yet been filled with the waters that was Kinyegele's family until that moment.

It is very nice to make your acquaintance, Metisoth thrummed up at her, pausing only when Kinye corrected her - "She's not an acquaintance! She's mom! You'll see lots of her!" because, of course, Kinye's roots in High Reaches reached as deep as they could go. "Awww, come now - I'm not that different..."

But then the fact she very well could have been and not realized it struck her and she peered down to Metisoth who leaned out to nose at one of her arms supportively. You are simply you - perfected and complete, after all, Metisoth hadn't really found much to disturb in all of her to make her own space. Hers had been, simply, everything she needed her to be, just the way she was. Give or take a few little things she'd carefully packed up and set aside for a lack of practicality.

Metisoth seemed briefly surprised that she was being thanked for, well - Then I should thank you for for giving birth to my Kinye, she answered, not quite sure why one would thank her for doing things she mostly had no part in. Being born was because of her mother. Impressing Kinyegele was simply because the girl and nobody else had been meant to be hers. They were less decisions to be made that she had any way of being responsible for and just how it was meant to be. But she'd not squash the line of thought without trying to understand it first.

Kinye beamed under her mother's affections. "Oh nooo! I don't want him to cry!" though she imagined it would be very close to her mother's tears - they didn't tug grief or sadness for having brought them the way woe would have. "If I ask, I think they'll let us go visit him with one of the older dragons keeping an eye on us," Kinye could handle the state of the infirmary and those within it. She'd done enough chores within it and her father's condition didn't simply throw her into distress. But Metisoth was fresh and new and needed to be watched. Kept from simply becoming overwhelmed by it all and throwing herself Between from the pressure. Not that Kinye imagined her lifemate to be sensitive in that particular way, despite the newness of their bond.

It is better to do things the right way - a good example for the others who may wish to do similarly, Metisoth saw no reason to break from the mold. Those rules were in place for a reason and there was no harm to either of them for abiding by them.

"Hmmm, I guess that makes enough sense," she did, after all, know that impression had a way of changing every person who walked off the sands in a different way. She'd just not seen it in herself - too busy looking upon the most perfect dragon on all of Pern.

Kinye leaned into her mother while Metisoth leaned back with a small whirl of surprise at the boop to her snout. While the gesture was familiar between dragons - her mother had been gracious in demonstrating it as she doled out her infinite love - she'd not been quite prepared for it. "You mean I have to wait a few more days to introduce him?" she pouted, mostly for effect, even if she could very impatiently do just that. Especially when lessons would come upon them full force the next day.

She'd all but forgotten that the eggs had hatched right before dinner until she was reminded she had a plate in her hands by her mother producing forks. "Oh, yes! I'm starving," it wasn't the first time she'd felt it all evening, but it had lingered even after Metisoth had been fed to the green's satisfaction. Yes, I'd not have you waste away when I have only found you, Metisoth approved, already on the lookout for the perfect place for the trio to sit and settle.

And perhaps later, once food was settled she could ask after other introductions as well.