K'lon was a dragonrider at Fort Weyr during the Sixth Pass. His dragon was blue Rogeth.
Biography[]
K'lon was the first person at Fort Weyr to become ill with the feline-caused flu plague. He was treated by Berchar and was eventually determined to be sufficiently recovered. Moreta was asked to check on him before going to the Gather at Ruatha Hold.
Since K'lon had become ill at Igen Weyr while visiting his weyrmate A'murry, who was also very sick, Sh'gall was convinced that K'lon had brought the illness to Fort Weyr.
Initially, there were doubts about whether or not K'lon's illness had actually been related to the flu plague, especially since he had recovered so quickly. Masterhealer Capiam later determined that the flu itself wasn’t causing the deaths. People were actually dying from other things, like pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory ailments.
When the drum message was heard which requested transport for Lord Tolocamp from Ruatha to Fort Hold, Curmir and F'neldril, decided that K'lon would do the transport since he was unlikely to contract the plague a second time. But, when questioned by Moreta, K'lon told her, "It was I who insisted on conveying Lord Tolocamp. You could say that I hadn’t actually heard the Weyrleader’s order of quarantine since Rogeth and I were asleep in a lower weyr."
K’lon had inadvertently discovered how to time it - knowledge normally restricted to bronze and queen riders - when anxious about getting to his weyrmate, green rider A’murry of Igen. When Moreta and Leri found out, they had Holth keep an ear on him and on A'murry's green Granth, as well as ordering him to stick to the normal number of hours in a day.
K’lon and Rogeth participated in the vaccine delivery mission, which required riders able to time it, but was back at Fort to witness the reactions of Orlith and Leri when Moreta and Holth were lost between, which deeply affected him. He later conveyed Master Capiam and the newly-promoted Master Desdra from the Healer Hall to Fort Weyr when Orlith’s clutch Hatched.
Personality and traits[]
K'lon was an older, weyr-bred rider who had not been best pleased when Sh'gall's Kadith had flown Orlith, making the much younger bronze rider Weyrleader in L'mal's stead. K'lon's discontent with the change in leadership had been aggravated by Sh'gall's overt disapproval of K'lon's association with the Igen green rider A'murry. He was deeply affected by the effects of the plague on the Holds, and by witnessing the reactions of Orlith and Leri to the loss of their weyrmates.
When Moreta found out that K'lon had discovered timing by accident, she told him that he must never mention to anyone, especially A'murry, that dragons can slip between one time and another.