Dragonriders of Pern #11: All the Weyrs of Pern by Anne McCaffrey

Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Science Fiction, Epic, Fiction, General, Fantasy Fiction, Space Opera, Fantastic Fiction, Dragons, Life on Other Planets, Space Colonies, Life on Other Planets - Fiction, Space colonies - Fiction, Pern (Imaginary Place), Pern (Imaginary Place) - Fiction, Dragons - Fiction
ISBN: 9780345368935
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1991-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Jaxom was feeling decidedly better by the time he and Sharra reluctantly retired from the dancing square. But duty called: Threadfall was scheduled to begin over water but creep forward over the southern border of Ruatha Hold. Jaxom never missed flying against Thread, no matter how involved he was with Aivas at Landing, and obligingly joined the wings of T’gellan’s Eastern Weyr when Thread fell there. It wasn’t simply a point of honor with Jaxom; both he and Ruth were stimulated by the implicit danger of Fall and reveled in being part of a fighting Weyr.

“Look, Jaxom,” Sharra said as they readied themselves to leave the Hold. She pointed upward, to the mass of dragon bellies just visible in the glow of the myriad lights that had blossomed at sundown on every wall, hold, cot, and ship. “I’ll bet that’s all of Fort Weyr going home!”

Jaxom was trying to adjust the riding straps so as not to damage Sharra’s gown and spared only a glance. “You’d be right about that.”

“Don’t worry about my skirts, Jax, not after all the dust they’ve picked up from the dance square.”

Jaxom humphed and felt Sharra’s hand ruffling his hair. Then he grinned. He had worried that she had worn herself out with the dancing, but if she was still so playful, she wasn’t too tired. They would get back to Ruatha in good time. Ruth?

I’ll time it for you for good reason, but that isn’t.

Oh, and isn’t it? Jaxom swung up on the white dragon with a huge smile on his face. Sharra smiled back as she wrapped both arms tightly about him, trying to work her fingers up under his flying jacket to his bare skin.

You’ve time enough in hand. And Ruth sprang lightly from the ground, his wings making that crucial downward sweep.

“It’s so beautiful!” Sharra shouted in Jaxom’s ear. “Ask Ruth to hover. We’ll never see Tillek look so beautiful again.”

Ruth considerately began to glide in a wide slow circle, head down so that he, too, could enjoy the sight. Jaxom could see that the white dragon’s eyes were sparklingly blue; each of the many facets of his eyes reflected tiny points of the bright lights of Tillek. The Hold, all the cots, and every ship in the harbor were outlined in radiance. There couldn’t be a glowbasket left indoors.

Jaxom felt Ruth’s sigh through his buttocks and, replacing this with a vision of Ruatha’s unadorned heights, told Ruth to take them there.

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