35th year of ninth Pass, Benden Weyr
The dragon came out of between.
The dragon had no name. Her golden hide gleamed like a hatchling's as she hovered in the sunlight over Benden Weyr. Heads turned at her emersion. Dragon heads of various colors poked out from their weyrs and watched the golden dragon hover.
The watch rider turned his head and his dragon rose to his feet. The blue dragon inquired this mysterious dragon's name and origin. The golden dragon responded with a burst of questions: Who are you? Where am I? Who am I?
The whole Weyr heard her response. The dragon had spoken into the minds of everyone in the Weyr.
The blue watch dragon asked, Who is your rider?
Rider? I have no rider. I am me, whoever I am.
Gasps echoed through the Weyr. The gold dragon glided down to the Weyr bowl. She landed, her feet shaking the ground. Ramoth, golden queen of Benden, leapt off her ledge and landed before the new dragon.
Only those on the bottom of the Weyr Bowl could see that this new dragon was bigger than Ramoth.
Ramoth spoke first. Who are you. Speak! Ramoth stressed her last word. The new dragon's eyes swirled with confusion and fear. She seemed to grow smaller as she folded her wings in against her back in alarm.
Please, I don't know, I can't remember, I came out of the black, I became me, I am a dragon but not a dragon.
Golden one, please do not be upset, a voice told the mysterious new queen dragon. The voice was Lessa's, Ramoth's rider. The dragon could feel the old woman's kindnessin her mind. Ramoth she is lost and without a rider. Leave her be.
A bronze dragon landed beside Ramoth, two riders on his back. They dismounted from the bronze's high perch. The female rider came to stand beside Ramoth, the male came to stand next to her, and the bronze dragon came to Ramoth's other side.
"I don't know, F'lar. She's..."
"Unique, unknown," the male rider said. "Dragon, who are you? Can you remember anything?"
Maybe, I'm so confused, I think I know you, I feel so strange.
"She sounds very... human. How is it that she has no rider?"
"Lessa, you're right. No dragon has ever been survived without a-"
Wait! I know, I can remember, this is Pern, this is Benden, I am a dragon, I came from between, I came from the past ,a very far place. You speak strangely, I hear the others, I know much but can remember nothing. I know my name! Came from far, I know, I am here!
I am Morganth.
