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Chapter eighty-two: T’kamen
If dragonriders aren’t meant to fight, why do we teach our weyrlings how? For self-defence, of course. Just because a rider has been told not to fight – and just because the Teaching Ballads strictly...
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Chapter eighty-three: Carleah
The holders of Speardike are now fully aware of the importance of a good narlbark harvest come next spring, and Master Berro – he has against, my better judgement, been reinstated in his rank – has...
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Chapter eighty-four: T’kamen
The stories of powerful men end in only two ways: death or disgrace. – Harper truism 27.01.15 – 27.02.05 (27TH TURN, EIGHTH PASS) MADELLON WEYR AND THE HARPERHALL T’kamen moved his Weyrleader to put...
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Chapter eighty-five: L’stev
A Weyrlingmaster’s decisions, more than any other rider’s, resonate down the Turns long after he himself is dead and gone. – Excerpt from Weyrlingmaster D’hor’s personal diaries 100.06.04 (100TH TURN,...
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Chapter eighty-six: T’kamen
When a volcano erupts, no one stops to ask why. – Harper expression 27.02.09 – 27.02.24 (27TH TURN, EIGHTH PASS) ISTA AND MADELLON WEYRS; BLUE SHALE SEAHOLD “We’ll sabotage the beaches if we have to,”...
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Chapter eighty-seven: Valonna
I’ve run out of time. I can see it in the Healers’ faces, as they gather at my doorway. I can see it in P’raima’s shoulders as he argues with them in low, angry words. But most of all I can feel it....
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Chapter eighty-eight: T’kamen
Mission accomplished! – Message from Weyr Singer Tawgert to Masterharper Marlaw 27.02.24 (27TH TURN, EIGHTH PASS) MADELLON WEYR The Starfall delegation arrived headed by an elderly queen whom T’kamen...
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Epilogue: A Loop Left Open
It’s been almost a Turn now since the bronze rider succumbed to the fever. Almost a Turn since we piled stones carefully over his corpse on the headland he and the bronze claimed for so long as their...
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Seventh Interval At Madellon Weyr Weyrwoman Valonna, dragon queen Shimpath Weyrleader Regent H’ned, dragon bronze Izath Adrissa, the former Headwoman A’keret, dragon bronze Redmyth, a Wingleader...
View ArticleDragonchoice re-read and commentary at AO3
The Dragonchoice trilogy may be complete, but Mistystarshine has begun an in-depth re-read from the very beginning over at Archive Of Our Own. I’ve decided to give the entire series a re-read, now with...
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Dragonflight – A Pilot Screenplay
Lessa and Watch-wher illustrated by Melanie Reynolds for Dragonflight: A Pilot Screenplay I set out to adapt the first part of Dragonflight into a TV pilot in early 2020 just for fun and screenplay...
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Dragonchoice does Dragonflight
Lessa and Watch-wher illustrated by Melanie Reynolds for Dragonflight: A Pilot Screenplay We’re living in strange, unsettling, challenging times and, like many people, I’ve been looking for ways to...
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The dragons are humming. Humming. Not roaring or rumbling or bugling. Nothing so familiar as that. They’re humming, every one of them. It started mid-morning, almost too softly to hear, but it’s been...
View ArticleThe Last Rider
I hate you, Atath¸ M’touf told his green, before he’d even opened his eyes. Hate you too, Atath replied sleepily. Why? Because… M’touf flung his arm over to the other side of the bed. Empty, of course....
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