This book is dedicated to everyone whose ever read a book and imagined themselves as a character in it, since this is the quasi-realization of my own imagination.

More importantly this book is dedicated to my pewter dragon pendant whom I have recently (5/30/1993) lost in a park near my residence, for without Mnath -that is... or was his name- and Anne McCaffrey's work I probably would be dead right now from depression... and acute boredom.