When Malori was first impressed by Nimhailleth 19 turns ago, she became envious of Shikako, her competition for the Queen she was searched to be impressed by. However, over time, that envy became a hybrid with longing. Until recently, her feelings had been kept silent, kept under a mask, but after the next Queen, Priorith rose for her second flight, she professed her attraction to Shikako, who turned her down. Under the hurt, and anger at being thwarted for the love, and control of the Senior Weyrwoman, she devised a plot to secretly murder the Senior Weyrwoman. Only later realizing what she had done, sadly it was too late to go back, and she mourned the loss for a couple weeks, and is still pretty surly to this day. A change her student Weyrlings are well aware of. Also to date, no one has been able to link her to the crime, though it's possible the Weyrwoman may have discussed her affections with others, because some of the other goldriders have their doubts...
Priorith's first flight was the first in a great while where the dragonriders had witnessed the Queen fight off males as they tried to catch her. Many bronze dragons that had come to Bendan Weyr for the chance at a new Queen had been injured severely. The male she had deemed worthy, Monolith, has been her companion ever since. For her second flight, many of the bronze riders feared letting their dragons attempt, especially the ones who had attempted during her previous flight, as such only Monolith and two newly matured bronzes attempted. However, Priorith had not evened out her temper between flights, and the new bronzes had received many scars that are visible to this day. During her second flight, her rider, Aria, became pregnant with her first 'clutch' as Priorith likes to call it. As the 'all-knowing mother' she never ceases to be amused with her rider's antics.
In Priorith's first clutch of eggs, she laid a Queen, which Infinis has Impressed. Astaroth and Infinis were in charge of escorting the second clutch hatchlings to the other Weyrs. She will be on a trip roughly a week with these hatchlings.
Jade's Queen, from the last clutch of the previous Senior, is now due to have her First Flight at any month. Bendan Weyr eagerly awaits the new Queen's rising as she will hopefully be more docile than Priorith was, and is.