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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
  64. What’s next onyour reading list?

“In time?” She gave him a long startled glare. “Closest run thing I ever saw. An’ only a foolish dragonrider would’ve risked his neck and his dragon’s for my son. Though I’m glad you did. He’s my eldest.” Then she flicked her hand, dismissing Binness, and peered shrewdly up at F’lessan. “How’d they fare at Monaco? I remember it’s flattish there. Someone bring a cup for the dragonrider. For the others, too.”

“Monaco is flooded,” F’lessan said, quickly, sparing C’reel and St’ven the need to answer such a painful query. He waved away the cup that a girl offered. “There is much to do. We can’t stay long. I’m to ask what supplies you’ll need to rebuild.”

“Ach!” Lady Medda flipped her hand. “We’ll see what’s left us. There’ll be stone enough to rebuild. You saved some of the dories. S’all we need.”

F’lessan gave her another respectful bow.

“We’ll be back in a day or so,” C’reel said. St’ven reinforced the promise with a quick nod.

“And you, young F’lessan?” the old lady asked, pointing her stick at him and rocking her chair forward so that it nearly touched him.

“Would that I could match you, Lady Medda,” he said with his most charming smile and backed away. As he strode to Golanth and vaulted astride, he could hear her laughter, a genuine rippling laugh, not an auntie’s cackle. He gave a final wave to all before asking Golanth to launch. Properly, not over the cliff edge, he added.

They reported the particulars of Sunrise Cliff Seahold to a harried archivist who had set up a temporary office in a tent on the edge of Landing’s Gather square. When they were done, the archivist waved them in the direction of the tables on the other side where food was being served and remarked that they would doubtless hear from their Weyr queen when and where they would be needed.

“You wouldn’t happen to know where what’s left of Monaco Weyr is being accommodated?” C’reel asked.

“No, no, over there. She’ll know.” The man waved his pen vaguely.

“Well, I could use clean clothes,” C’reel said, noticing that clothing was being stacked at the north side of the square.

“Me, too,” St’ven said. Although F’lessan kept extra clothing at Honshu, he wouldn’t be able to supply more than a few.

All at once, the heat of the square, the noise of those thronging about, the day’s exigencies seemed too much to endure a moment longer.

“You get clothing, C’reel, St’ven,” he said. “Find out where the rest of your Weyr is quartered. I’ll get to Honshu and make ready for you.”