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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?

Lessa nearly missed a step. G’dened? Of course, he’d know about Honshu but she hadn’t seen Baranth that bright in Turns. After over three decades of fighting Thread as well as the recent exertions during the Flood, it was hard to keep good color in the dragons. So long as some of the resurgence spilled into the Old-timer and thawed him a bit! She couldn’t be sure that G’dened would grasp the importance of this unexpected new facet of dragons, but maybe he would be encouraged. Certainly the vibrancy of his color—and even the restored gleam to the hides of Ramoth and Mnementh as she checked them and saw how bright they appeared—suggested that all the dragons of Pern had been renewed in vigor and purpose. Lessa took a deep breath. Now, if they could use this telekinesis effectively …

“The dragons and riders are all recovering?” Larad said, stepping down and holding out both hands to F’lar and Lessa. Taking his hands, she realized that he was genuinely concerned.

“Indeed, although truly,” and Lessa projected her voice to be sure that everyone listening for news would hear, “if Master Oldive had not been provided with so much invaluable medical information from Aivas’s records, we would have lost them both.”

“Saved by Aivas?” Larad asked, likewise raising his voice and implying gratitude. “What I don’t understand is how did the felines get into Honshu?”

“The creatures were not in the weyrhold.” F’lar gave the simplified version. “F’lessan and Tai had taken their dragons down to the river to bathe. That’s where the felines attacked them. The area around Honshu hasn’t been much bothered by the felines but the new holds nearby have been rounding up and domesticating more and more wild stock. Naturally the predators were attracted.” F’lar shrugged as if dismissing the circumstances. “A concatenation of circumstances. Right place, wrong time. They’ll heal.”

“Oh, splendid! We are relieved to hear that,” Lady Dulsay said and then her expression altered to concern. “And you have to attend a Council Meeting when you must yearn to be at Honshu with your son.”

Lessa was momentarily surprised; few people referred to F’lessan as “your son.” He was the one child she had been able to bear F’lar and she had once—briefly and keenly—regretted her inability to have more. But that was long ago. The Weyr was more important. Today it was vital for the Weyrwoman to be present at this meeting.

“As to that, F’lessan is very well attended and, being weyrbred, he would not expect me to absent myself.”

Lady Dulsay recoiled slightly. “My pardon, I do forget.”

“This is one of those times,” Lessa said as kindly as she could, for Lady Dulsay meant well, “when the customs of hold and weyr conflict.”