"Let Pridith have it, dear one," she called soothingly to the golden queen.

The golden queen was as skeptical as her rider.

The man, reluctantly tearing his eyes from the glowing golden queen, bowed to Lessa.

She half-crawled, half-ran to the rock where the golden queen was perched.

It was a little golden queen, swooping into the cavern, calling piteously.

Fought and won, controlling herself and her beast for the bond - love she had with the golden queen.

Suddenly a second little golden queen erupted into the room, her eyes spinning.

He's only a brown, Lessa scolded her golden queen.

Merga had evidently been with them, for Beauty projected a second golden queen on the rocks.

The golden glowing queen and her lovely Weyrwoman disappeared.