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Chap. 318 The Wanted Poster “How in the world did you move this horse all by yourself?” K’ndar asked, amazed. “K’ndar. Really? Leverage, laddy. My block and tackle are in my stump. But I don’t need it, the forest provides, eh? See this tree, with the exposed roots? I call it a manyroot tree. Doesn’t…

Chap. 317 End Game Finally, she thought, I’m out of this bloody stinking jungle. She warily scanned the open savannah from the tree line. The horse, behind her, dropped his head. Ah. The caves! There was a dragonrider, sitting on the pack. An enormous dragon was next to him. The sunlight was in her eyes.…

Chap. 316 The Setup Vika gave up trying to force the horse to go any faster than a walk. I hope to catch that pack horse. This one is about dead. I’m going to have to continue on across the savannah, in the open. I’m not going back up this path. “You’d better carry me…

Chap. 315 The Break Up He’s twice my age, K’ndar thought, as he pushed his way through undergrowth, and he’s outrunning me. His breath was ragged as he followed Rand. The forester was slithering through tangling vines and whipping limbs as sinuously as a snake. K’ndar was catching every one. The path they were on…

Chap. 314 The Pack Horse K’ndar felt relieved that his problems with the datalink seemed to have been solved. “Thank you, Rand. I feel pretty sheepish, seeing as to how you know how to work the datalink better than I do.” Rand grinned. “You’re welcome, lad, but there’s no need to feel small. Everyone has…

Chap. 313 The Forester Geek “So you’re telling me that Landing wants you to catalog every tree species on Pern. You. Just one man and his dragon.” “Yes,” K’ndar said. Rand shook his head. “They may be bright sparks with things like making ‘computers’ and going up to the starship, but K’ndar, they’re morons when…

Chap. 312 The Invisible Rand Raventh landed atop the fallen tree in the middle of the large clearing. K’ndar dismounted and carefully climbed down from the tree to the floor of the clearing. Once again he was astonished at the tree’s enormous bulk. Knee high saplings had sprouted all along the top, racing for the…

Chap. 311 The Berry Code “Hi, K’ndar! I was just about to call you.” K’ndar entered Jansen’s office. The data tech had half a dozen open notebooks piled on her desk. “You must have been thinking extra loud, because the thought hit me that you might want to talk,” he said. “I do. Remember I…

Chap. 310 A New Project Jansen looked victorious. “It took a while to find that beast in the database. Your initial data fills in a big part of a blank, but it’s still a mystery.” K’ndar was standing next to her workstation. “So I’m not the first to describe it?” “Well, that depends on what…

Chap. 309 Whose Doggy is That? “It’s obviously a herbivore,” K’ndar said. He was sketching the carcass. “There’s no doubt in my mind the dogs killed it. Look at all the tracks!” “Did our dragons scare the beasts back into the forest last night, or did they know the dogs were coming?” B’rost asked. He…