Excerpt
TURNOVER
Turnover at Landing—1.1.31 Present Pass Aivas—Aivas Adjusted Turn 2553 Since
it was not at all unusual for dragonriders to be found poring over the volumes
in the extensive Aivas archives, F'lessan, rider of bronze Golanth, was not
surprised to see a girl wearing the shoulder knots of a green rider from Monaco
Bay deeply engrossed in study. What did strike him as odd was that anyone at all
was here in the main archive reading room during Turnover. Tonight the planet,
north and south continents, would officially celebrate the beginning of the
thirty-second Turn of the present and, hopefully, final Pass of Threadfall. Even
through the thick walls of the building, he could hear drums and occasionally
the sound of the brass instruments from Landing's Gather Square.
Why wasn't the girl, especially a green rider, out dancing? Why wasn't he? He
grimaced. He was still trying to overcome the carelessly lustful reputation that
he had earned early in this Pass. Not that he was any different from many bronze
and brown riders. "Just more noticeable," Mirrim had told him in her
candid fashion. Mirrim had astonished everyone, including herself, when she had
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