Family is a touchy subject with Kym.  Her father, a traditional holder in Bitra, wanted sons so he could expand his holdings.  Kymra, born in the middle of several girls, was fostered off to the main Hold at the tender age of four.  Her mother failed to be a prominant figure in toddler Kym's early life.  She was a weak-willed woman, concerned more about her husband and his needs and wants; he had taken a mistress in his efforts to spawn a son, and Mraphne was desperately attempting to win him back.
    Kymra's sister Evieleen, who was significantly older, took the place of a mother.  Indeed, she practically doted on Kymra; when the young child left the security of her family, it was an upsetting experience.  Her foster-mother couldn't, or wouldn't, give Kymra the affection and attention she needed -- hence, the exuberant, precocious child became more and more withdrawn.  Visits to the family hold were hardly frequent and were reserved for important events.  The young girl's natural curiousity was cut off, and she became considerably quiet.  Kymra failed to have many friends and became the outcast and scapegoat for Bitra's children.  She increasingly took to exploring alone or helping with necessary chores.  She was not much good at desirable skills, however:  weaving, mending, cooking, and gambling were not her fortes.
    On her fourteenth Turnday, Kymra's father came to evaluate his daughter.  Needless to say, he was far from pleased with the results and bluntly told his daughter that she was not welcome at the hold:  she was a burden, and he wanted none of her.  Although not incredibly surprised, Kymra was hurt by the rejection of her father.

    Another Turn passed before Kymra decided she had had enough of Bitra.  Hitching a ride with a trading caravan, she stole from the Hold late one night.  Ruatha was the caravan's destination, and it was there that she hopped off.  The Ruathans welcomed the wayward teen; she blossomed, growing more confidant day by day.
    Hardly a Turn had passed when a greenrider from Bahrain Weyr arrived and demanded that an irritable Kymra help her card yarn from storages to her dragon.  Talina's Jiyuth, bells a'jingling, decided that she wished to bring Kym back to the Weyr, too, and Talina was obliged to ask Kymra to Stand upon the sands.  The latest clutch was hardening, and Candidates were needed.  Kymra could do naught be agree -- and she was wisked away to the Weyr.
    Some could say that she reverted to her earliest ways during Candidacy; her precosity reemerged, and withen days, she was involved with harmless pranks.  A number of friends were made, and finally the day came when the Candidates were ushered onto the sands to the hum of the dragons.  Nervous yet excited, Kym watched as eggs hatched; one by one, dragonets Impressed, leaving Kymra without a lifemate.
    The teen was disappointed.  Her closest friends were busy leading very different lives, although they did buoy her spirits, assuring Kymra that her dragon simply wasn't shelled yet.  Kymra only half-believed them, yet it was these acts of friendship that solidified her decision to stay on at Bahrain.

    Staying at the Weyr carried a consequence: the knot of Assistant Steward.  Kymra was content with her new role -- the disappointment of not Impressing made her mature noticibly.  The enthusiasm was not dampened, but moderated with a new seriousness.  She ended up spending much of her time in the storage caverns; they became her realm, something familiar in a hectic world.
    Once again, Kymra's world turned upside down after about two somewhat-normal Turns.  The time, it was C'zar's playful bronze Asarith who demanded that she Stand at the upcoming Hatching.  The circumstances were significantly different:  all four queens had clutched at the same time, and over a hundred eggs would hatch.  Kymra agreed once Caz promised her the use of his robe and found herself a cot in the crowded barracks.
    Cramped quarters soon became almost unbearable, and so when a fellow Candidate named Melinde suggested hiding out for awhile, Kymra agreed, along with two others, Eldana and Fernox.  It was in this new arrangementthat Kym's friendship with Eldana deepened.  The younger girl had looked up to the world-saavy Candidate earlier, but Kymra soon became a dubious role-model.  They even Stood together, accompanied by Nehyn, also on the sands for the second time and wearing an incredibly short robe.
    They didn't Stand together for too long, though -- a newly hatched green soon spied Kymra and her hand-me-down robe and proclaimed the girl hers forever.  The Impressions of the other two occured later -- N'hn and green Ecariath, Eldana and blue Ilyth.  Kymra shed her old name that night, becoming simply Kym.  It was more than just a change of name, however; for Kym, it was a way of commiting herself to her new life with Gwyneth and severing her ties to her past.  Kym vowed to never speak of her origins, dedicating her life to Gwyneth and the future.
    Weyrlinghood tasks dominated Kym's time.  They weren't tedious, however, for the teen's time with Gwyneth was more than she'd ever dreamed.  The friendships she made during weyrlinghood served to last her a lifetime:  Eldana, N'hn, Rivkan and brown Epionth, J'na and green Morianth, F'ox and brown Muldereth.  Her relationships with the Weyrlingmaster and his assistants were something less than formal; she had been a Candidate with C'zar, Tam, and Arial before Impression.
 

    The day finally came when the weyrlings graduated, and Kym found herself placed in the Garabaldi Wing.  Content with her new duties, she awaited the day upon which Gwyneth would rise with dread, watching other greenriders' dragons take to ths skies.  A move to Xanadu took her mind off the flight, but not for long.
    Kym was, in a word, afraid.  She hated the idea of not having her body under her own control, but caught up in her green's emotions.  She explained her problem to Rivka, and the brownrider advised her to take care of it before the flight so that she'd have some experience; Kym said she'd think about it.  While basking upon the beaches, Gwyneth's hide took on the characteristic glow of proddiness unbeknownst to Kym.  Rivka and N'hn joined the greenrider while N'hn's own lifemate was proddy as well.  Emotional -- moody -- Kym confronted Rivka again.  N'hn didn't like secrets and, of course, wanted to know.  Eventually, he found out, and after Rivka left, offered to help a sulking Kym out with her problem.  It was a spur-of-the-moment thing, and Kym unexpectedly agreed.  They went to the Great Hall to eat, first, where the pair was joined by several others.  It was without noticed that both Gwyneth and Ecariath rose, blooding their kills while riders scrambled for the ground weyrs.
    In the end, it was T'gger's Pounceth who caught, and T'gger who Kym awoke next to the following morning, not N'hn.  As fate would have it, Kym's affair with the brownrider was not a one night stand.  They continued to see each other up until Gwyneth's next flight.
    Luck was not with T'gger, apparently, and it was blue Ilyth -- /Eldana's/ Ilyth -- who captured Gwyneth.  The bluerider confessed to her role-model that what she felt was more than friendship moments before a very drunk T'gger staggered in.  He was not pleased with the situation -- Kym with Eldana -- and made his opinions very clear.  The greenrider eventually ran from the hall.
    After a long chat with T'on, another greenrider from her clutch, Kym reconciled with T'gger.  She was not willing to leave Eldana hanging, however, and the trio came to an understanding.  T'gger and Eldana shared Kym's affections jealously; it was not until one stormy night at Xanadu Hold's cancelled Gather that Kym's significant others took an interest in each other as well.
    After a fiasco involving Garabaldi and Rishiri's wingleaders, the Weyrleader R'afael approached Kym.  He gave a new knot to her, along with the reins to Garabaldi.  She, in turn, offered new knots to Rivka and M'rika, brown Audath's rider, as her wingseconds.  Kym, herself, drew upon her earlier experiences with responsibility as she was faced with another, larger leadership role.
    Shortly afterwards, newly graduated weyrling Z'ia's green Nieth rose, and T'gger's Pounceth caught.  Zi'a flaunted the fact to a very proddy Kym.  She attempted to persuade T'on to give her a sword; she wouldn't kill Zi'a, she promised, only maim her.  Luckily, T'on possessed more sense than Kym.  Even after Gwyneth's flight, Kym's animosity for Zi'a continued.  It didn't help matters when Pounceth caught Gwyneth, either.  Jealous over T'gger's attentions, yet angry with him for spending more time than required with Zi'a, Kym was faced with the task of knotting the younger greenrider as a Garabaldi wingrider.  After baiting each other day after day, Kym reluctantly tossed a knot Zi'a's way.  She had a heart-felt conversation with T'gger as well over the status of their relationship.
    Turns passed, and one day brought a young man to Xanadu.  He sat on Kym's table -- an atrocity, in her proddy eyes -- and she rounded on him angrily.  A close questioning turned up the fact that he was, in fact, her nephew.  Kym's attitude changed immediately, and the hopeful Weaver-to-be found himself spending the night in her weyr.  Convinced that Kym was less than sane, he hurried away to the Xanadu Weaverhall in the morning.  But when another of Xanadu's golds clutched, Kym decided to visit her nephew.  Gwyneth promptly Searched Celeviel along with another hapless person who happened to be in the right spot and the right time, Shallain.  At the Hatching, Kym tried to persuade various greens to go Impress her relative, but a green-tinged bronze got there first.  Celeviel became C'viel, weyrling to bronze Jhyth.

    Kym eventually got fed up with her semi-weyrmates' consistant bickering, and when T'gger and Eldana aruged about who had wrecked Kym's favorite rug, a keepsake from Bahrain, she unexpectedly threw them out.  When Gwyneth next rose, Fort Weyr's bronze Riorth caught to Kym's surprise.  It was an unusual occurance for bronzes to catch greens; with Gwyneth's propensity for aerial acrobatics, it was virtually impossible.  Kym got another surprise when she awoke the next day:  there was no trace of P'vias, Riorth's rider.  Feeling slighted, Kym visited Fort to track down the bronzerider and demand an apology.  P'vias pronounced them weyrmated and Kym agreed to stay on at the Weyr on a vacation from the monsoon rains and her duties as the newly promoted Weyrsecond.  Rumors soon spread as Fortian speculated about the greenrider in P'vias' weyr, and some even suggested that they were in love.  But Kym fled as spring came to Xanadu despite numerous threats on the bronzerider's part.

    Sometime later, Weyrlingmaster T'on recieved a letter from his mother.  The fact was discovered that T'on and Kym were cousins, which Kym strongly denied.  In another bout of proddiness, she postulated that T'on was in fact T'ron, and that his green had at one time been a bronze.  Between tacking up Oldtimer posters and fighting yet again with the greenrider in the Great Hall, Gwyneth rose and Kym returned to a semi-normal state.  She eventually apologized and recognized their relationship on their mothers' sides.