Author: ueoai

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,”…

Chap. 191 Re-organizational chaos He had accompanied M’rvin, his Weyrleader, to Landing, with two goals in mind: to learn more about the smanda that he and G’alin had captured, and to check in with the library to see what new treasures had been printed. He also had several field notebooks to turn in, having painstakingly…

Chap. 190 Return to Far Nowhere Once again, he had the most disturbing feeling of being lost. Except that, no, he had been here before. The hut was still there, and the sedges. There was, however, a fundamental change that astonished him. G’alin stood, hands on hips, his expression a mix of puzzlement and doubt.…

Chap. 189 The Unprepared “I admit that I just learned of this mission this morning,” K’ndar said to the two dragonriders in front of him, “but, it seems to me you both have been severely under informed as to what the goal is.” He had met them at Landing’s dragon meadow. D’arad, the blue rider,…

Chap.188 They want a WHAT? “Are they joking? Have they had a bit too much fellis? Those things nearly killed my fire lizard,” K’ndar said, shocked. M’rvin shook his head. “No, they’re apparently in their right minds,” he said. “Folks at Landing don’t seem to have much of a sense of humor.” K’ndar, unbidden, sat…

Chap. 18. The Dragon healer “He might die, K’ndar. I’m sorry,” Salish, the Weyr’s dragon healer said. Siskin’s limp form was on her clinic’s stone table. The blue appeared to be unconscious, his breathing labored. Going between had frozen the netting on Siskin’s skin, turning it into a powder. The sticky netting on his riding…

Chap. 186 The Drystone Hut We’re going exploring? Yes, and this time I’ll be prepared for just about anything. Where? Well, I was considering the Western Barrier Mountains. I’ve never been there, but I do have the dragonstone coordinates of the Hold that Francie’s horse came from, I thought we’d start there. But it wasn’t.…