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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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“And learning all you can from Aivas to improve your skills. Whereas the Abominators seem to want to stop progress in its tracks,” she replied coldly. “We found out as much from what he didn’t say, though the thought of trying to trace him in Keroon, where the hill folk won’t even discuss the weather, is daunting.” She caught Sebell’s eye and held it.

“Shall we enlist Lord Kashman’s help?” Jaxom asked. “I know he’s new in his Holding but, if his people are in any way involved, he should be consulted.”

Sebell cleared his throat. “None claimed Keroon as their hold.”

“Did we expect them to?” Lessa asked scornfully.

“Did you learn anything else from Batim, Lessa?” F’lar asked.

His weyrmate gave a fastidious shudder. “Only what was foremost on his mind—denying where he came from. He reacted more strongly to ‘Keroon’ than anywhere else,” she said, giving him a trenchant glare. “He was very annoyed that they’d been caught and was steeling himself against the abominations that would be practiced on him to make him speak.”

“The very idea!” Master Crivellan was appalled.

“Someone like Batim would probably enjoy being tortured,” Jaxom remarked.

“Jaxom!” Sharra exclaimed.

“He’s right, you know,” Lessa said. “Don’t deny that you would have liked to help, considering how distressed Master Oldive was.”

“Then I would have,” Sharra replied candidly, “not now. I’m sorry they don’t know better.”

“They’re a grudging lot,” Jaxom reminded her. “Look how that woman reacted when Oldive offered to treat her and went to the trouble of explaining that he would be using traditional materials! She didn’t want to hear the truth. Is it possible that we,” he asked, indicating all the leaders, “have not taken into consideration how hold and hall will receive Aivas’s innovations?”

Sebell cleared his throat. “We do hear things now and then that suggest that some people are dubious about ‘progress.’ Often because they doubt they’ll ever be able to afford it.”

“Or don’t fully understand the benefits?” Lessa asked, thinking of her own quarters, warmed by an Aivas improvement. Cold seeped through the stone floor under the table and chilled her feet halfway up her shins.

“It’ll take more than the few Turns we’ve had since Aivas died to explain to all who need to know,” Sebell said.

“For that matter,” Groghe remarked, “I’ve a significant number of small holders who won’t believe dragonriders diverted the Red Star, because Thread is still falling.”

“Some will never understand,” Jaxom said wearily.

“We certainly make it as clear and to as many holds as possible,” Sebell said, trying not to sound defensive. The burden of explanation was the Harper Hall’s responsibility. “But the understanding of some is limited.”