[Statistics] [Weyrwoman Zyala] [Golden Ireath]

Zyala, Ex-Weyrwoman of Dragon Soul Weyr, was just about the nicest woman you could hope for to lead your Weyr. She was kind, forgiving, generous and good-humoured - that's not to say that she was soft. When she needed to get things done, they got done with no fussing about. The youngsters of the Weyr respected her with something akin to fear and the riders looked to her with warmth and sometimes awe. Zyala was, in short, a Weyrwoman.

Born at Dragon Soul to two dragonrider parents and fostered from birth, Zyala had a relatively normal, happy childhood. Her foster-family had two daughters slightly older than her and they treated her well.

For her twelfth birthing day, Zyala received a firelizard egg from one of her uncles' gold 'lizards. Her being but a child and a fosterling, of course she had received the last remaining egg - the smallest of the clutch. It hatched green, and the young Zyala was delighted. Zabeta, the flit had been called.

The next turn, the thirteen-turn-old had been apprenticed to the Weyrhealer and had learnt fast, walking the tables at age seventeen.

It was only a few months after her promotion to Journeywoman, however, that one of the Weyr's Searchdragons had taken a good look in her direction. And at that moment, her life was changed. Searched, and Impressed that very sevenday.

But unlike the other girls - unlike her very expectations - Zyala did not Impress green, or blue. Zyala Impressed the single golden Queen. The sheer momentum of that had actually made her faint on the Sands that day, much to the dismay of newly-hatched Ireath.

In Zyala's twenty-fifth turn, the current Weyrwoman and her dragon died of old age and she was plunged into leadership when Ireath was the single remaining Queen.

She kept up her Healing Craft as much as is possible with all the responsibilities placed on her by the Weyr, and the then-Weyrleader - E'rrol of bronze Serreth - was more of a good friend than an actual mate. She had a comfortable, happy life, and enjoyed her responsibilities to the fullest.

Then Ireath was injured in Threadfall and everything changed. She was due to mate, to refresh the Weyrleadership, but was grounded and could not. For perhaps two sevendays the Weyr was thrown into confusion and fear about the status of the leadership of Dragon Soul. And then Yainolith, Qianel's golden beast, rose to save the day. Quite literally. She mated with Q'leyne's bronze Oryudioth and the Weyr was once again smooth-running.

Zyala gave up her position gracefully, though she was young to be an ex-Weyrwoman. Ireath healed nicely and they now serve under the superb leadership of Weyrwoman Qianel and Yainolith, acting as somewhat of a senior counsellor. And, once more, life was good.