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  1. Other titles by Anne McCaffreyPublished by Ballantine Books:
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. PROLOGUE
  9. At a Gather—6.15.30
  10. Part 1
  11. Turnover at Landing—1.1.31 Present Pass Aivas—Aivas Adjusted Turn 2553
  12. Benden Weyr—1.1.31
  13. Southern Hold—1.1.31
  14. Healer Hall—1.1.31
  15. Back at Landing—1.2.31
  16. Fort Hold—late night—1.1.31
  17. Fort Hold Runner Station—1.2.31
  18. Keroon Printer Hall—1.3.31
  19. Benden Weyr—midday—1.3.31
  20. Monaco Bay Weyr—five days later—1.8.31
  21. Part 2
  22. Ruatha Hold—local time 12:04 in the morning—1.9.31
  23. Telgar Weyr—local time 4:04 in the morning—1.9.31
  24. Benden Weyr—local time 6:04 in the morning—1.9.31
  25. Harper Hall—local time 1:00 in the morning—1.9.31
  26. Landing—local time 10:12 mid-morning—1.9.31
  27. In the Conference Room at Landing—1.9.31
  28. Monaco Weyr—10:22 in the morning—Timing it
  29. In the Conference Room at Landing—local time 1:10–1.9.31
  30. Sunrise Cliff Seahold—timed-back
  31. In the Conference Room—local time 2:12 at Landing—1.9.31
  32. Back at Landing—local time—3:40
  33. Harper Hall—5:00 in the morning, and Southern Hold—2:00 in the morning–1.9.31
  34. Landing—late afternoon—1.9.31
  35. Same time at Keroon Printer Hall—local time 11:15—1.9.31
  36. Later, on an unusually bright evening at Landing, Sunrise Cliff, and Honshu Hold—1.9.31
  37. Part 3
  38. Honshu—1.10.31
  39. Circle Runner Station—1.18.31
  40. Harper Hall
  41. Benden Weyr—
  42. Benini Hold—east Monaco and Honshu—1.20.31
  43. Harper Hall—1.28.31
  44. Honshu Hold—2.1.31
  45. Fort Hold—2.13.31
  46. Printer Hall at Wide Bay—same night
  47. Honshu Hold—2.9.31
  48. Night at Wide Bay—2.9.31
  49. Ruatha Hold—late evening—2.9.31
  50. Core Hold—two days before Council Meeting—2.26.31
  51. Part 4
  52. Honshu Weyrhold—2.26–27.31
  53. Council Meeting at Telgar Hold—3.1.31
  54. Honshu Weyrhold—3.01.31
  55. Interim at Benden and elsewhere
  56. Honshu Weyrhold—time passing slowly
  57. Landing—3.21.31
  58. Honshu Weyrhold—3.21.31
  59. Southern Hold—3.23.31
  60. Honshu Weyrhold—3.27.31
  61. Benden Weyr—3.27.31
  62. Cove Hold—same day, same approximate time
  63. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Idarolan was, F’lar thought, the only one who had come at all prepared to this meeting. An early riser by nature, he was in the habit of scanning the morning skies for weather signs, so he had seen the fireball. He was also aware of the phenomenon of tsunami and had immediately consulted his charts and logbooks. As Erragon had done, he had used red for the most vulnerable seacoast, orange for danger, and blue for easily accessible highlands. Before the Benden Weyrleader appeared to ask for his help, he had a pretty good idea how serious the situation was.

“Here!” With a deft finger Idarolan extracted an open sheet and flicked it toward F’nor. “Toric likes charts and maps and details. This’ll give you what he needs to know. He’d have—let’s see …” Idarolan turned his eyes up, mentally figuring.

“Eleven hours, minus the time of this meeting,” Erragon said with an apologetic nod to the old MasterFishman for giving the answer, “before the tsunamis meet the shoreline of his hold.”

“At that he’ll get off lightly. And consider himself ill-used to be assaulted from east and west,” Lessa said, her expression inscrutable. F’nor gave her a long wide-eyed look. She responded with a smirk as Erragon agreed with her.

“But not entirely. He has many seaside holdings.”

“Southern Boll will be hit harder,” Idarolan said, nodding solemnly at Janissian. “And Tillek.”

“More rock face than shallows along that south-facing coast of ours,” Ranrel said, speaking almost for the first time; he’d been taking copious notes. “We are very lucky that there has been such advance warning.”

“The Yokohama has more than justified her continued existence,” Idarolan said with a slightly sanctimonious air, glancing sideways at Kashman of Keroon.

“I wonder what the Abominators will say about this,” Jaxom remarked in a deliberately languid tone.

Into the dismayed silence that greeted that comment, F’nor noisily pushed back his chair, reached across the table for the sheets Idarolan had sent in his direction and finished the last of the klah in his cup.

“C’mon, then! We can send a fire-lizard to apprise Sintary of our arrival.” He looked to Lessa and F’lar.

“Might as well,” Idarolan said, also rising to his feet. “I shan’t be long, Lord Ciparis, and then I’m yours to command. But I’ll point out that the Keys, and Long Beach at the head of Nerat River, will reduce the violence of the tsunami there. The Tip of Nerat, Bent Ridge, Grethel, Saluda, and Berea will be affected and the river may flood all the way up to Waneta. I’ll be back.”

“I’ll return Janissian to Southern Boll,” Jaxom said, “once we’ve copies of all this for you and Curran, Ranrel, and for us.”

Back at Landing—local time—3:40