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?”

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  1. Dragonsblood by Todd McCaffrey (Del Rey, January 2005).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Todd McCaffrey