Candidate Barracks

Directly across the Bowl from the Hatching Sands and with no internal tunnels connecting it to any other part of the Weyr are the Candidate Dorms.

As you enter this area you will pass by the Candidate Mistress/Master's office. The office holds a desk, one comfortable chair for the CM and one uncomfortable chair for the Candidate forced to be in the office. But rarely are they allowed to use that chair.

Directly across the hall from this is the main classroom. While paper is much more readily available most lessons still use slateboards and sand tables. The room is circular with the students sitting on benches lining the walls with the CM or whatever guest Instructor is lecturing standing in the center of the room.

Just past the CM's office is a narrow staircase leading up to the CM's Weyr.

The hall soon widens into a natural cavern which has been modified to act as a Common Room for the Candidates. Tables for studying at, plenty of chairs made more comfortable with cushions. There is a bullentin board which is updated daily with annoucements for the Candidates from chore assignments to class schedules. And the walls are lined with diagrams of dragon anatomy and charts showing when Thread will fall, where it will fall and explanations of the calculations used to determine this.

Three tunnels lead off the Common Room. One leads to the Boy's Dorms, one to the Girl's Dorms and one to the Necessary & Bathing Chambers. The Bathing Chambers are used on a schedule with girls getting it first in the morning followed by the Boys one morning then alternating the next.

The size and comfort of the Common Room more than makes up for the cramped confines of the individual rooms. Each narrow room holds two beds, a chest for personal belongings and pegs on the wall to hang up clothes. There is also a single desk which must be shared between the Candidates.