A gift of dragons by Anne McCaffrey

Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Epic, General, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, American, Fantasy fiction, Space Opera, Space colonies, Short stories, Science Fiction - Adventure, Life on other planets, Animals, Mythical, Dragons, Short Stories (single author), Pern (Imaginary place), Fantasy - Short Stories (Single Author)
ISBN: 9780345456359
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2010-01-21T15:51:19+00:00

Torlo arrived with a tray of food just as she was waking up.

'Not as sore today?'

'Not all over but my leg . . .' She pulled the quilt back so he could see.

'Hmmm. Need more on that one. Went in at an angle. I'm calling Beveny.'

'Oh, really . . . I'd rather . . . Surely Penda knows what the healer made up for me...'

'She does but we want the healer to speak about your injuries to Lord Groghe.'

Tenna was dismayed now. A runner didn't go to the Lord Holder without real cause for complaint and her injuries were not that serious.

'Now, see here, young runner,' and Torlo waggled a finger at her, 'I'm station master and I say we take this to the Lord Holder on account of it shouldna happened at all.'

Beveny recommended a long soak in the tub and provided her with an astringent to use in the water.

'I'll leave more poultice with Penda. We want that final sliver out. See . . .' and he pointed to the thin, almost invisible hairs of the sticklebush which had come from the arm puncture. 'We want another of these fellows on the pad, not in you.'

Two more had also erupted from the puncture wounds and he carefully covered all three pads with glass slides which he tied together.

'Soak at least an hour, Tenna,' he told her. 'You're to take it very handy today, too. Don't want that sliver to work any further down in your flesh.'

She shuddered at the thought of an evil-looking hair loose in her body.

'Don't worry. It'll be out by evening,' Beveny said, grinning reassuringly. 'And you'll be dancing with us.'

'Oh, I'll have to run on as soon as I'm able,' she said earnestly.

Beveny's grin broadened. 'What? And do me out of my dance with you?' Then his expression turned professional. 'I can't release you as fit to run yet, you know. I'd want to see those puncture marks healing. Especially in the shin where just the dirt and dust of a run could be imbedded and cause a repeat infection. The wounds may seem,' and he emphasized the word, 'insignificant but I've tended a lot of runners and I know the hazards of the trace.'

'Oh,' Tenna said meekly.

'Right. Oh!' And he grinned again, pressing her shoulder with a kindly squeeze. 'You will make your first Cross. Now rest. You runners are a breed apart, you know.'

With that reminder, he left her to make her way to the bathroom.

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