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| Author: | Pat [ Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | CHALLENGE. Timing it |
Con and her Queen dragon Bettaneth popped out of Between high above the slopes where the Chalet School skiied, so that she would remain undetected and the blast of the coldest air on Earth or Pern would go unnoticed. The two spiralled down, keeping behind the tree-line as much as possible, until they finally settled in a clearing a hundred yards or so uphill of the slopes. Con nodded to herself. She had Timed it perfectly as far as she could see. There was her younger self and her triplet sisters, Len helping some new girl with her first attempts, Con herself gazing out towards the Jungfrau with a dreamy expression on her face, and Margot toiling up the hill with Emerence, arguing with her. The little bronze Firelizard took off from his perch on her shoulder and shot after them, hovering just above their heads. Con could now see the scene through two sets of eyes - her own and the Briesau’s, which distorted things for a moment until she got used to it. Leaving her dragon she inched carefully closer until she was only just inside the tree line, and she could hear the voices. For the first time she heard what her sister said. "No, Emmy! We mustn’t! Emmy—don’t!” Mary-Lou dropped the rope of her toboggan and tried to reach them, but with a shouted challenge of “Funker! Baby!”, Emerence let herself go shooting down the slope. Con winded as Margot screamed, and screamed again, making some of the girls look up in alarm. Mlle stopped anyone from getting in the way of the careering toboggan, except for Mary-lou, who was too far away to take any notice. Knowing what would happen, Con forced herself to watch as Mary-Lou tried to direct Emerence away from the crashed sledge, but then Emerence hit the hidden snag in the snow and to Con everything happened in slow motion. Emerence flew through the air, crashing into Mary-Lou and flinging her against the trunk of the tree. Briesau dipped down very briefly, checking the two girls, then returned to Con, chirruping into her ear as he settled back on the padded shoulder. “Yes I know. They’re both fine,” said Con softly, the tears sliding down her face in sympathy with her sister’s, as Margot skidded down the hill almost blind from her tears, and Vi Lucy and Biddly O’Ryan gently turned Mary-Lou over, showing her to be still, grey, and to all appearance, dead. Con shook her head. She had been a weyrwoman long enough to know that the last thing you did with a possible back injury was move the patient until a Healer reached them, but this had happened, and nothing she could do would change it. She didn’t know why she’d come, why returned to this incident at all, so she turned and began to scramble through the snow back to her dragon. She was better off where she was, on Pern. |
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| Author: | PaulineS [ Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CHALLENGE. Timing it |
Thanks Pat good to see another scene from Con as a weyrwoman. It only struck me when reading "Mary Lou Leaves the Chalet School" that turning Mary Lou was not good practice. |
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| Author: | Nightwing [ Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CHALLENGE. Timing it |
Oh Anne McCaffrey, I have such a love-hate relationship with you! Loved this version of the scene, Pat. |
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| Author: | Emma A [ Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CHALLENGE. Timing it |
That was a great version of that scene, Pat. Thanks. |
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| Author: | Cat C [ Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CHALLENGE. Timing it |
Ooooh, I really liked that version - have only read little bits of Anne McCaffrey, keep thinking I should get to grips with all the Pern series. |
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| Author: | Sarah J [ Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: CHALLENGE. Timing it |
Lovely version Pat. I do so like the Pern novels. |
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