We were lucky you were there at all, Lessa said. We might never have known where Kylara was.
What I want to know is whats going to happen to her now? A hard vindictiveness replaced the half-shame, half-guilt in the riders face.
Isnt loss of a dragon enough? Tbor roused himself to ask.
Brekke lost her dragon, too, Sgoral retorted angrily, and she was doing what she should!
Nothing can be decided in heat or hatred, Sgoral, Flar said, rising to his feet. Weve no precedents He broke off, turning to Dram and Gnarish. Not in our time, at least.
Nothing should be decided in heat or hatred, Dram echoed, but there were such incidents in our time. Unaccountably he flushed. Wed better assign some bronzes here, Flar. The High Reaches men and beasts may not be fit tomorrow. And with Thread falling every day, no Weyr can be allowed to relax its vigilance. For anything.