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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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I do the slow part, Golanth said. You apply the lift.

There is a chair out here, Zaranth added.

“Master Keita, would you have the gel handy?” Tai asked to distract her.

Keita turned to the chest where healer supplies were stored.

Stay very still, Tai heard her green say.

Out of the corner of her eye, Tai saw F’lessan disappear.

Notsofast! Golanth said. Her heart gave a thump of alarm, and she shot a glance down the hall in time to see F’lessan’s body inserted in the chair, a look of surprise on his face. Trundlebugs had never appeared to notice.

We didn’t even bump him, Zaranth said, highly pleased.

A matter of practice. You shove.

I don’t. I move.

I slow.

We can try it the other way round, and to Tai her dragon’s voice sounded wily.

You can practice on other things, F’lessan said firmly to Zaranth and Golanth but Tai could hear the amusement in his voice.

Hand reaching for a small jar, Keita swiveled, stared accusingly at Tai. She gave a deep sigh of exasperation. “I suppose it’s similar to going between.”

“Not really. It’s sort of all at once, instead of by degrees. Is that the gel? I’ll just take it out to him.”

Tai left the room as fast as she could.

“Just so long as he comes out of it alive on the other end,” Keita called after her.

When she reached the terrace, F’lessan was still in the chair, leaning down to look at Golanth’s hind leg. One of the other healers was just staring at him. Zaranth, on the upper ledge, was blinking and looking, Tai thought, rather paler green than she should be.

Does it take a lot of effort?

No, Golanth helps. Last night I was afraid I might hurt him.

I slowed him down, Golanth said. That’s important, too. He isn’t a feline.

He also isn’t a trundlebug. Heavier. Zaranth replied.

He seems to have survived, Tai said, walking quickly down the hall.

It may be just a matter of control. We must find out how the other dragons are doing, Golanth said.

Tai reached F’lessan in his chair.

“How was the ride?”

“It’s not like going between,” he said firmly, looking her in the eye. “But I got here and Golly’s leg isn’t near as bad as I thought it was. Couldn’t really see it last night, you know.”

“You had too much time to think. I told you it was healing.”

“I had to see it.”

“I know,” she agreed affably but, when he started to get up, she pushed him back.

“I want to see all of Golly,” he protested.

“Golly can turn around. You stay put. It’ll do Golly good to move.”

“But he’s smeared with numbweed,” F’lessan replied hotly.

“You heard Keita lecture us.”