McCaffrey divorced her husband in August 1970 and emigrated to the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland, in September with her second "Dragonriders of Pern" book nearly finished and a contract for the third. "The White Dragon" would complete her "original trilogy" with Ballantine Books in 1978 but for several years that work stalled. The markets for children and young adults provided crucial opportunities, as when editor Roger Elwood solicited contributions of short genre fiction to anthologies. She was able to deliver "The Smallest Dragonboy" and the four-part story of Killashandra: