17.Feb.21, 03:29 AM
"Okay," she called back and slipped in with her tray. "I saw you were gone from-- Ooh. You got an egg! That's why you missed dinner. How close to hatching is it?"
She passed the plate off to him immediately and crouched to look at it without touching the surface of the egg. It looked pretty hard, maybe like it was going to hatch any time. It must be so close to hatching that if you looked away it might pop! crackle! and the little creature would chirp like the gold had done until someone fed it.
Or something cute like that. Maybe it wasn't always cute, either, maybe it would be like that angry brown. It could be. Who knew? Not her!
Then again, maybe they were different than dragons to some degree. It could get weird. Things got weird all the time. She eyed Taydee and grinned.
"Can I sit with you and wait, too? I did go to the Fort Hatching where my ma Impressed the queen but we weren't sitting really close. I did get to take a piece of the shell. I was gonna get it made into a necklace for her."
She passed the plate off to him immediately and crouched to look at it without touching the surface of the egg. It looked pretty hard, maybe like it was going to hatch any time. It must be so close to hatching that if you looked away it might pop! crackle! and the little creature would chirp like the gold had done until someone fed it.
Or something cute like that. Maybe it wasn't always cute, either, maybe it would be like that angry brown. It could be. Who knew? Not her!
Then again, maybe they were different than dragons to some degree. It could get weird. Things got weird all the time. She eyed Taydee and grinned.
"Can I sit with you and wait, too? I did go to the Fort Hatching where my ma Impressed the queen but we weren't sitting really close. I did get to take a piece of the shell. I was gonna get it made into a necklace for her."