Desdra also tole me, since she knew me to be discreet and trustworthy, how the
dragonriders had managed to make so many deliveries. This had contributed to their total
exhaustion, a major factor in the tragedy: Dragons could go as easily
between one time and another as one place to another. Moreta and Holth
had overtaxed their strength this way. For only by stretching time in this bizarre
fashion, or rather doubling back on themselves, could MOreta and Holth manage to deliver
serum to all the holds on the Keroon plains.