Dragonflight - Part One - Weyr Search - Section 1: Meeting our Protagonists

[kalinara]

I mentioned in my last post that Dragonflight contains two previously published short stories and quite a lot of additional content. As such, it's not really divided into chapters. That makes it a little tricky to pace out for review, but I'll do my best.

"Weyr Search" starts us off with a poem, or perhaps they're supposed to be song lyrics.

Drummer, beat, and piper, blow,
Harper, strike, and soldier go.
Free the flame and sear the grasses.
Till the dawning Red Star passes.

Each small section of the story will bring us more poetry or song lyrics, all relevant to the setting. I like this touch. It's atmospheric, and gives us an immediate sense of what common people know or remember about the setting.

I'm not going to comment on the quality, because I never had much of a head for rhyme or meter. So, there's that. It does make it very easy to track the point of view shifts, so I'm inclined to approve.  It also makes it a little easier to partition out my review (this post has both Lessa and Flar's first viewpoint sections.)

( Meeting Our Protagonists )