Pern 12 - Jaxom Traditional Cache
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CONGRATULATIONS Team Angry Ballz on your first FTF!! This is a cache dedicated to Anne McCaffrey and her Dragonriders of Pern novels.
One of the things I love about Pern, is the books move the reader through 2500 years of history, while allowing us many views of that history. Also, I love how the characters have strenghts, musings, inadequacies, doubts, lessons to learn, and the ability to grow and fail.
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As he walked on in silence, Jaxom raised his eyes to the imposing cliff face which was Ruatha Hold, the second oldest human habitation on Pern. It would be his to Hold when he came of age or when his guardian, lord Lytol, former weaver-journeyman, former dragonrider, decided that he was wise enough – that is, if the other Lord Holders finally overcame their objections to his inadvertent Impression of the half-sized dragon, Ruth. Jaxom sighed, resigned to the fact that he would never be allowed to forget that moment.
Not that he wanted to, but impressing Ruth had caused all kinds of problems for the Benden Weyrleaders, F’lar and Lessa, for the Lord Holdres, and for himself since he was not allowed to be a real dragonrider and live in a Weyr. He had to remain Lord Holder of Ruatha or every younger Holdless son of every major Lord would fight to the death to fill that vacancy.
Looking up to the fire-heights, Jaxom noticed that N’ton’s brong Lioth was nose to nose with Wilth, the elderly brown watch dragon. He wondered what the two dragons were talking about. His Ruth? The trial of the day? He noticed fire-lizards, tiny cousins to the big dragons, executing lazy spirals above the two dragons. Men were driving wherries and runner beasts from the main stables out to the pastures, north of the Hold. Smoke issued from the line of smaller cotholds that bordered the ramp into the Great Court and along the edge of the main road east. To the left of the ramp, new cots were being built since the inner recesses of Ruatha Hold were considered unsafe.
The previous paragraphs are from The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey, copyright 1978 by Anne McCaffrey.
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