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MasterSinger Merelan and Harper Petiron were a brilliant and devoted couple. Merelan was the most outstanding soprano ever heard on Pern- and was often the only one who could master Petirons technically accomplished compositions. When- after a long and difficult birth- Robinton was born to them- it should have been the culmination of a unique partnership.But Petiron- almost from the first day- had no time for his son- refusing to see the incredible talent the boy possessed- ignoring his achievements and maintaining a strict and disapproving vigilance over him at all times.Carefully- secretly- the Harper Hall took over- training the greatest talent Pern had ever seen - a talent that was more than just musical- for Robinton was able to talk to the dragons of Pern.As constant sadness beset his personal life- so a startling career sent him like a meteor through the Holds and Weyrs of Pern until- as MasterHarper- he became part of the great plan to rescue Lessa from the brutal rule of Holder Fax - Lessa- who was to be the saviour of the dragons of Pern....