Dragonheart
Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
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Heart, give voice to sing
Of life on dragonwings!
Fort Weyr, AL 507.11.17, Second Interval
“...and you wouldn’t believe how many holders they’ve saved over the last ten Turns,” Benden Weyrleader M’tal said, continuing to press his case for the watch- whers.
The three remaining Weyrleaders had adjourned to Fort Weyr’s Council Room to await the Hatching and confer.
C’rion of Ista Weyr snorted and shook his head. “I’m sorry, M’tal, but the time’s all wrong,” he said. “Threads will be falling all too soon and here you are with this radical notion of training dragons and watch- whers to fly Threads together at night.”
M’tal took a slow, calming breath to stifle the hot retort he wanted to make. He looked expectantly to K’lior.
The youngest Weyrleader of Pern shifted uneasily under the gray- haired man’s gaze. Well aware that M’tal had been a Weyrleader since before K’lior was born, he found it hard to refute such a ...
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