Letter from John

Hi,
I just finished “Dragonblood” and felt some disappointment. I thought you’d get back to the characters at the beginning when Lorana was aboard ship. Whatever happened to the young captain? Did Lorana’s rescuer indeed die at sea? Did the mutineers survive the storm?

It seemed Lorana never wondered about them either.

I must comment here that I thought the story got bogged-down somewhat with all the genetic engineering detail.

Thanks for writing it, and continuing your mother’s wonderful world of Pern, though!

Hi John,

Actually those questions were answered in the original version of the book but in the end it was determined that they distracted from the central story too much and bogged things down (even more than the genetic engineering!).

The answers are still there, if I can ever find a good story to stick them on to.

Just FYI, Captain Tanner did survive (and I had a fairly lengthy story-line for him).

Colfet, since the last revision, is more of a question mark for me. He was quite a character.

In defence of Lorana, she found herself, upon her recovery, almost immediately Impressing, and then engulfed in a tragedy larger than the shipwreck. She never had time to catch her breath.

Hmm… perhaps I’ll rescue the various snippets and put them up on the website!

Cheers,
Todd