The gold weyrling will train just the same in these first three months as the other weyrlings. She will also attend meetings with the queen riders, and learn the queen's role in calming injured dragons and giving commands during Threadfall. She also will accompany the older queen riders during their day and assist when permissible. The gold weyrling must learn all the songs and ballads about the queen dragon and her role in the life of the Weyr.

During the months when the queen is finally able to fly on her own, her Impressed will be getting to know all the riders of the Weyr, and meeting with them as well as observing their drills. In addition to the extensive classes on how to assemble and repair flamethrowers, and the tougher and tougher drills with her class, she has to learn advanced dragonhealing techniques.

Now that the queen rider can fly, she is taught how to represent the Weyr in public and private matters. She'll visit areas under the Weyr's protection as well as continue her meetings with the wingriders. She'll learn how to read and make Threadfall charts, how to make numbweed, and recipes for gathering and using herbs.

She'll learn about betweening and all its perils from another queen rider as they have some very special circumstances pertaining to it. She'll also learn the basics of Weyr management, keeping up with stores, managing tithes, and handling matters pertaining to Craft and Hold.

All the while, she continues her flight training. Phew!

During these three months the young queen rider will learn the joys of record keeping; she'll learn the Weyr's system of records and start doing this herself. She'll also become intimately familiar with all wing formations and flight patterns so that when she is in the air she can make the right decisions in the event of an emergency. She'll learn how to go between to places outside the immediate vicinity of the Weyr, sometimes even across the continents and oceans. She'll advance now to the finer techniques in dragonhealing, and learn how to recognize illnesses and difficult injuries as well as how to treat them.

Most drills now are with the queen's wing and with flamethrowers, practicing evasive maneuvers, shooting flame into the air, and catching injured dragons.

Finally, the new queen rider flies with the Wing into fall, ferrying flamethrowers and, if needed, assisting an injured dragon back to the Weyr. During the last month of training, she'll be prepared for her queen's first Flight and Clutch.