The Dolphins of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Author:Anne McCaffrey [Pern, Dolphins of]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science fiction, Fantasy, General, Science Fiction - General, Fiction, Fantasy - General, Magic, Juvenile Fiction, Fiction - Fantasy, Fantasy & Magic, Space colonies, Life on other planets, Animals, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Pern (Imaginary place), Dolphins, Marine Life
ISBN: 9780785793182
Publisher: San Val, Incorporated
Published: 2010-01-21T15:54:57+00:00

"I've watched Persellan sewing up dragons often enough, and I helped him with Boojie,' T'lion began, taking out a needle and threading it with the fine strong suture that Aivas had suggested to the Healer Hall. "I've even got the hang of how he ties his knots.

"So do it,' Readis said, impatiently, "before she loses any more blood. That's definitely not good for her."

With a decisive exhalation, T'lion reached for the needle and thread. Numbweed worked really quickly, deadening any flesh, human, dragon and, he hoped, dolphin.

Watching, he found, was by no means the same as doing for even getting the sharp needle to penetrate the tough and slippery flesh of the dolphin was different than sewing up clothes or even repairing his flying straps. The muscles along Angie's side rippled. Since he had to jam the needle in her pretty hard, that was okay. She wasn't squirming which would have worried him. And the other dolphins were making some sort of soothing noises that, in some mysterious way, seemed to vibrate in the water around his legs. Gaddie, careful to keep the rest of her under the rippling water, held steady enough so that his jabbing needle didn't go into the wrong places.

"She knows you're helping her,' Readis said as he kept up a reassuring rhythm of caresses. That helped his nerves and she seemed to lean into the motions. He also kept checking the reassuring beat of the big heart in her chest. It struck him as significant that dolphins had hearts on the left sides of their bodies, just as humans did.

Cori, the other injured baby, wasn't more than a few months old but the wound was serious for so young a calf. When T'lion was finishing the last of Angie's stitches, he asked Gaddie to take Cori in hand so that Readis could smear her with numbweed. The baby made odd noises and swished her tail around but Afo told them that Cori was only relieved to be painless.

"Goodee man goo, she said quite clearly. "Nummmmm weeeed?" she asked.

Readis laughed, as much from relief of the strain as because he was pleased to know the pods were using more words.

"Yes, numbweed,' Readis said. "They've learned a lot from you, T'lion, and he tried to keep envy out of his voice.

"They didn't learn it from me - I don't think,' T'lion said, frowning as he concentrated on tying the last few stitches in the complex knot. "Maybe Persellan used the word when he was doing Boojie. But Afo wasn't at Eastern when we did that.

There! That's closed now. Wheeee." T'lion wiped his forehead on his arm, cleaned the needle and returned it to the little case that held Persellan's needles.

"Good mans men,' Afo said and rubbed against their legs, prodding them gently in their genitals as a mark of extra affection.

"Hey, don't do that, Afo,' Readis said.

T'lion laughed at his reaction. "Don't forget to thank Gaddie, too, Afo,' he said and Afo responded by blowing a spout of water up against the bronze dragon's chest before submerging.

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