He then tells N'ton he will leave to find her, but secretly goes with Canth — slightly between times to the Red Star, first alerting Ramoth and the others. F'nor forgets to do so until the next day after delivering the grubs, and instead talks with N'ton about Meron and fire lizard behaviour. At High Reaches Weyr, Brekke, unable to sleep, washes and goes to the Lower Caverns to check on their supplies, as T'kul made off with most of them when he left the Weyr.

In all the titles where it appears as an item, obtaining the Big Book of Beasts is purely optional and not a requirement to beat the game. Later titles will merge the Book's functionality with certain sections of the menu, such as the Battle Records. Though it does not exactly finish in a final sense, the ending does make it clear that there is a long road ahead and that it won’t be an easy one.In the aftermath, F'nor comforts the recovered Brekke, who angrily protests at being placed on the Hatching Grounds, and tells F'nor never to leave her as she can't bear the thought of being alone.

For example when a woman in paroxysms of grief is repeatedly slapped to stop her crying, or when Lessa makes rather David Eddings like comments about men’s inability to take care of themselves in matters of rest and food (something which seems doubly odd given that people working in a disaster zone as most Dragonriders do would be the last to risk their own failure through exhaustion). The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. Robinton, Masterharper of Pern, adjusted his tunic, the rich green pile of the fabric pleasing to the touch as well as the eye. This tension comes to a head when F’nor stops an attempt at extortion by two thuggish dragonriders getting stabbed in the process, and though this does leave F’nor a chance to recover at southern weyr in the hands of the kindly Brekke, it also requires F’lar and Lessa to play a delicate political game; balancing the arrogance of the old timers, and the simmering resentment of the lords holder who too rapidly forget the debt they owe the weyr folk, not to mention the political machinations of the ambitious Weyrwoman Kylara and her consort Lord Meron.Her political byplay is however exceptional, I particularly liked the way she captured the idea of various personalities with different approaches to problems ranging from stony opposition, to overly fervent support, to inadequate compromise. The Lord Holders continue to request an expedition to the Red Star, and Robinton and Masterweaver Zurg have draughtsmen sketching every surface of it — in addition to this, Meron is constantly at Fort Weyr, in an attempt to find co-ordinates for dragonriders to use. Afterwards, F'lar talks with T'bor, the Southern Weyrleader, stating he thought T'ron was attempting to goad him into attacking him.