12.Feb.21, 08:24 PM
Madelan was just as put out by the late hour as the rest of them, the candidate rolling out of his cot with a bitter and rather disgruntled mutter. He was alone this night, something that he hadn't been in a while but he'd had a need to be since the attack during the touching. He'd gotten away from it relatively unscathed, a few bruises and some scrapes when Malvayth's tail had smacked him as she'd gone by but Mads was annoyed by it. He had finally gotten a firelizard egg from E'rid, a gold too. He'd demanded and greased enough palms for it, though it had taken a good damn long while for him to finally get her but got her he did.
She was fat and lazy, named Butterball, and lay snoring on his cot. Madelan shook his head at her and scratched beneath her chin before instructing her to stay in his room or in the ledges with the big dragons. She was lazy enough Mads knew she'd probably still be curled in the middle of his bed when the hatching was all said and done. He sighed and readied himself.
He settled with the rest, mind still playing the idea that perhaps he wasn't good enough for these creatures when the eggs started breaking. A green first. Wasn't that some kind of bad luck? He'd always heard it was and she was followed by a blue and then a brown. He sidestepped the brown when he came barreling towards the group of candidates. He had no desire to be mauled by some mindless dragonet before it impressed. He'd heard stories about the beast who'd eaten a girl's face. Then he was impressed to Corvilis or V'lis now he supposed and he winced at the panic in the brown's voice.
He sighed and turned back to watch the rest.
She was fat and lazy, named Butterball, and lay snoring on his cot. Madelan shook his head at her and scratched beneath her chin before instructing her to stay in his room or in the ledges with the big dragons. She was lazy enough Mads knew she'd probably still be curled in the middle of his bed when the hatching was all said and done. He sighed and readied himself.
He settled with the rest, mind still playing the idea that perhaps he wasn't good enough for these creatures when the eggs started breaking. A green first. Wasn't that some kind of bad luck? He'd always heard it was and she was followed by a blue and then a brown. He sidestepped the brown when he came barreling towards the group of candidates. He had no desire to be mauled by some mindless dragonet before it impressed. He'd heard stories about the beast who'd eaten a girl's face. Then he was impressed to Corvilis or V'lis now he supposed and he winced at the panic in the brown's voice.
He sighed and turned back to watch the rest.