Author: ueoai

Chap. 202 Smoke screen “Is Raventh up to going out towards the burn? I’d like to see where it started. I’d like to know HOW it started, we had no lightning whatsoever,” Mardriss said. How do you feel? Want to take me and my brother out to the burn? I’m fine, Raventh said, the bath…

Chap. 201 Firefight Something is burning Raventh said. What? At that moment their fire lizards appeared, swirling over their heads and screeching in dismay. K’ndar, Lizard and Sandriss all saw their images of an oncoming wall of flame. “Fire?” “My word, look at the smoke! The steppe is burning!” They all froze, instinctively checking the…

Chap. 200 Homestead changes “Now you be careful with that pie, Glyena, my dear,” Hariko, the weyr’s headwoman said, “and tell your mum I wish I could come and witness, but…” K’ndar’s sister gingerly cradled the basket containing a pie. It would have to be carried-it was too large and unwieldy to fit in one…

Chap. 199 The Explorer’s Journal Siskin chirped in joyous recognition. Three fire lizards, two greens and a bronze, all bearing collars with Landing’s insignia on it, popped out of between over his head. Raventh was bathing in the dragon lake, along with several other dragons. Francie’s fire lizards! “Hello, Coora! Sisi, Keeso! Where’s your mum?”…

Chap. 198 Worried “They probably won’t even remember me,” Harve said, dejectedly. The small pile of possessions the boy had accumulated was ready to be loaded onto Raventh. From nothing, not even a cloth to hide his nakedness, the residents of Landing and Kahrain Steppe Weyrfolk had all pitched in to provide Harve everything he’d…

Chap. 197 Decision I wonder if I looked like that K’ndar said to Raventh. Like what? Like I was about to pass out from fear. Afraid of an egg? Raventh snickered. You laugh…you were all nice and comfy in your egg. I was barefoot on those hot sands and was afraid I wouldn’t impress. Sitting…

Chap. 196 The Puzzle He’d spent most of the evening updating his field notebooks and copying them, neatly, into blank ones that he’d eventually turn into Landing. He’d discovered an odd fact of re-drawing something from his original sketches. They never looked quite the same. It bothered him that he’d remember seeing something on the…

Chap. 195 The Shuttle There was nothing else like it on Pern. The shuttle Eujisan was bathed in the subdued light entering via the cavern entrance. K’ndar’s docent, this time a teenage girl, stood by respectfully, giving him all the time he needed to just stare at the machine. He walked around it, noting how…

Chap. 194 Aggravation and Interruption They came out of between in the bright morning sunshine over Honshu Weyr. It was far larger than he’d expected. A sheer rock wall, riddled with what seemed countless weyrs, towered over the remains of a caldera. A river sparkled at its foot. Rider K’ndar and Raventh of Kahrain Steppe…

Chap. 192 What is a smanda? K’ndar looked into the repurposed watering trough. A small smanda was swimming about in it. He was struck speechless. “Well, K’ndar, what do you think?” Raylan said, looking supremely satisfied. “I’m-gobsmacked, Raylan. I don’t know what to say, or think. Except by the egg, they’re uglier than I thought,”…