Author: ueoai

Chap. 74 Opening the capsule Chap. 74  Opening the capsule D’nis, D’mitran and K’ndar were in an inner lab of Landing. The artifact K’ndar had found lay on a table in front of what seemed to be the entire staff of Landing. People crowded in behind them. Everyone was excited to learn what was in…

Chap. 73  Lions “Not that I want to stop exploring, ” D’nis said,”but we DO have duties and responsibilities at the weyr.” It was their last day on the steppe. K’ndar didn’t want to stop. He’d been making copious notes of every benchmark, every animal and their activities,  every topographical feature, few as they were,…

Chap. 72  K’ndar’s Find They’d been out on the steppe for four days. This was much further than K’ndar had ever been. The further south into the steppe they’d flown, the wilder it got. While D’mitran and D’nis took readings and set benchmarks, K’ndar could only look and look, at the vast open wilderness rolling…

Chap. 71 Homecoming It felt so strange to be ‘home’, K’ndar reflected. He felt out of place. Having spent the last two years in the weyr, he’d not thought that things would change at the  cothold. He felt an odd feeling of separation. Parts of the ranch had not changed: the barns, the small cottage…

Chap. 70 The Equipment posted 21 Aug The problem, D’nis realized, that once word got out that he was planning an expedition, that everyone wanted to go, too. He had to say no. This broke a lot of hearts, but also inspired other riders to think of other places to go. K’ndar, D’nis and D’mitran…

Chap. 69  Planning an expedition K’ndar responded to D’nis request to meet with him. When he got to the former Weyrleader’s weyr, he found D’mitran, his wingleader there as well. “Come in, sit down. Hello….what is your fire lizard’s name?” “Siskin, sir.” “Appears he’s suddenly got a lot of company. There’s at least a dozen…

Chap. 68  The Lizard Show K’ndar and Glyena, his sister, were enjoying Singing Waters Hold’s Market. They’d flown in on Raventh earlier in the day. It was the first time he’d been able to talk with his sister since the hurricane. She chattered away, telling him all the things she’d been doing and learning. “I…

Chap. 67 The Lizard Express K’ndar made a final inspection of the two braided horsehair necklaces he’d been working on. He found that, as a dragon rider, he didn’t have the time that he had when he was a Weyrling. This, he thought, was from several different reasons: he spent much of his free time…

Chap. 66 The conclave A week after Thread had stopped falling, and the dragonriders of Pern had recovered from the celebrations,  had stopped to reflect on what life meant for them now. F’lar and Lessa, the de facto Weyrleaders of the planet, had called for a conclave of all weyrleaders, Weyrwomen, riders who’d explored and…

Chap. 65  The First Day of No Thread Out of an abundance of caution (and, many would say, a bit of skepticism), the weyrleaders of Pern had their wings in the air, preparing for Threadfall. It was a day no different than that when, for over two millennia, dragons had taken to the skies to…