Two sick fire-lizards—the progenitors of Pern’s dragons—fall from the sky where the
geneticist Wind Blossom and her protégé set out to cure them and in the process determine
that they are from the future.
“Don’t do it!” the first M’hall shouted to the other.
Somber M’hall startled
at the sound of his own voice coming to him. “You’re from the future?”