Holdless sounds so sordid, don't you think?

... a sly look flits across the fine features “….. do you consider yourself holdless now?” After another brief swallow of the warming liquid, the mug is...Shanlee now, foregoing the smirking in favor of a short little laugh. "Holdless sounds so sordid, don't you think? Like I should be up... into a grin “Now that’s where you’re wrong Nathein. Holdless doesn’t have to mean anything of the sort.” green eyes ...

Business unusual.

... quest is an easy one, then," comments the guard, "I am Alleyana. I wasn't aware of business with Ista, however." Tegara's lips quirk in a faint half-smile. "As you have your brigands and holdless here, we have pirates who have grown bolder in raiding our coasts. The guards of Ista Hold have heard of your prowess and the Lord Holder is interested in hiring you on as a trainer, if you would be ...

Oh, why do they always have to... argue?

... distracted, the accuracy of his list pales like his expression and the whites of Thera's eyes when she peers over at him from the corner of her eye and expressly /doesn't/ say what the Lady Holdless is doing at Fort Weyr. Ruminations on this revelation churn in his head like the food of his recently filled stomach turned sour by omission and remission. He slowly turns his eyes to the hand on his ...

Shrouds of Days Past: Kagora gives a history lesson!

.... Igen has terribly hot weather and a lot of dust. When traveling, a burnoose robe like this brown one here were rather rough, but they kept out gusts of sand and dust. Igen had a problem with Holdless folk in a nearby river cut cavern. While most of these were innocuous, a band of raiders opperating in the area and lead by a former member of Telgar's Lord Holder's House hid among their numbers ...

28/09/07: Evening in Ista Weyr

..., to Zuhal. He catches the expression on the Smith's face, though missing then that on Quorra's.   Tejano flashes teeth at Qi's extravagent tag settled on Tejano's own name, "Nice term for 'Holdless', I think.   Pleased to meet you.   You would be...?"   Tejano asks, "Other than hailing from Igen?"   Had Zuhal seen the near-lifeless form of Tejano being carried out of Boll's dark seas,...

Making the jump to Benden of the past

... in a state of pitiful disarray - not quite as barren as it was when Benden was repopulated (will be repopulated?), but there's all the evidence that the Weyr has been used as a camp for holdless in its vacancy: Debris, the cinders of an abandoned campfire, et cetera. Marlon makes a little sigh at the public display of affection and then turns to the green. He unhooks the first few bags, setting ...

... it would have been fun to see how you went about making me 'disappear', not anything to do with parental inclinations." She wrinkles her nose at this, as if the subject were distasteful. The Lady Holdless doesn't miss the furrowing of his brows, though she assumes it's from her line of conversation. "About the monthly shipment of glowbaskets--what do you /think/ I'm asking about?" She pauses mid-...