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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?

M’rand demurred with a chuckle. “Wasn’t having as much fun in the Interval. I was young enough to accept the challenge. Now I’m old enough to think R’mart was right. We got you started and now we can retire in good faith. Of course, he still wants to be in a Weyr. Ourselves, we’ve been in one too long and Pilgra and I’d like to be by ourselves. Not,” and he held up a hasty hand, “that you can’t call on us and our dragons whenever you need to!”

“Now, if you’re trying to get us to argue you into staying in that cold Weyr of yours, you’ve come to the wrong ledge,” F’lar said, with an amused tilt to his mouth. He flicked one hand at M’rand. “Go, rider, and enjoy a well-deserved rest. May it take you into the next Interval.”

“You mean that?” Pilgra turned to Lessa, eyes wide.

“Who thinks this is wrong?” Lessa wanted to know. And when both exchanged uncertain glances, she went on. “Let me guess: G’dened.”

“Well, he’s the oldest of us,” Pilgra said.

M’rand cleared his throat. “Stubborn, too, won’t let go at Ista because he’s been at that Weyr—” He paused to guffaw. “—a half a hundred Turns and he knows all there is to know about leadership and Fall.”

“One can appreciate such a sense of loyalty,” Lessa said after a moment, and smiled. “Tenacity, too, and dedication, sense of purpose, perfectionism.”

F’lar dropped his head, looking away from Lessa who was being outrageous and sounding so sincere.

Pilgra caught it first, blinking with astonishment as Lessa found a few more similar adjectives. Then M’rand roared with laughter, which turned into the hacking cough.

“Go before you die of the cough and get done out of your ease,” Lessa said sternly.

“But—but—”

“Four good bronze Wingleaders? Let each one lead in turn during the next Falls until a queen rises,” F’lar said pragmatically. “You’ll be available for any problems. In fact, it’ll take you time to step down even after you have. Now where’s this splendid cove in Cathay? Did you think to get—ah, you did,” he went on as M’rand withdrew a folded paper.

“Got Master Idarolan to do the map work for me. He’s good at that.” M’rand offered it to F’lar, once again the decisive leader, and a very relieved man. “I don’t know which is better to have, map readings or your dragon knowing where to go.”