F'lar wakes up on the morning after Ramoth's mating flight. He reflects on the changes in the Weyr. He wonders who had called him back to the Weyr at the time of the mating flight. Mnementh won't say. Mnementh reports that F'nor had, as F'lar commanded, watched the Eye Rock. The Red Star was approaching ever closer. The Eye and Star Stones had been carefully placed by the ancients to show exactly when the Red Star was close enough to bring Thread to Pern. His ruminations are interrupted by the sound of splashing water, as Lessa bathes. Mnementh warns F'lar to be careful around Lessa.