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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?

“Wasn’t there one dragon in Monaco Zaranth liked?” he asked quickly. “Didn’t Mirrim tell you to decide which rider you preferred and latch on to him?”

Her eyes slid from his and she swallowed hard. “Don’t go after Mirrim, F’lessan. She said—something like that. But I didn’t—didn’t prefer any of them.”

“He didn’t have to be Monacan, you know.”

“You’re angry with me again.” Her body was stiff beneath him.

“With you? Again? When have I been angry with you, Tai?”

“When you got back from Fort.”

He blinked.

“When you found me swimming after—after—”

“When you were injured,” and he stressed that word, “trying to stop those sharding vandals.” He got angry just thinking about that attack.

“You’re angry with me again.”

“No, I’m—” He closed his lips on “not” and saw that, unaccountably, she was smiling a little; that her body had relaxed, that both her hands were lying loosely on his back. He took a deep breath and made taut muscles loosen. “I’m not angry with you, my dear Tai, I’m angry for you.”

“I’ll have to get accustomed to the difference.”

“Will you, my very dear green?” he asked very gently.

“Will I what?”

“Want to get accustomed to the difference? To me?” He searched her face, rubbing his thumbs gently from her temples to her cheeks. “I do so very much want to know you better.” He kissed her lightly at the corner of her mouth, felt her lips twitch under his. Then, carefully, he moved to one side of her long body and pulled her against him, pressing her head against his chest.

“They’re lying just like this, you know,” she murmured.

He smoothed her hair back and settled his cheek against it. “Hmm. I know. On the ledge. But they’re almost asleep.”

“Aren’t we?”

“We.” He liked the sound of that and especially the idea of sleep. Of sleeping with her in his arms.

I told you I would hunt well, he thought he heard his dragon say. Had Golanth been planning a very subtle courtship after all? Just as his rider had?

Harper Hall—1.28.31

“You wanted to see me?”

Sebell gave a start. Pinch closed the door that he had opened so quietly that his Masterharper had not even heard it. He grinned.

“Losing the old skills, are you, Sebell?”

“So long as you don’t,” Sebell said and flipped a piece of paper across the table, nodding for Pinch to read it. “From Crom’s harper.”

“Serubil? Sensible man. Knows endless verses to that dreadful ‘Down the Shafts.’ ” Pinch gave a revolted shudder as he stepped forward to take the note. His eyes brightened as he scanned it. “So if the body was never found, even if the trackers were delayed looking, Serubil says the man must have escaped. Possibly taken the river down to the plains.”