16.Oct.13, 03:06 PM
The warm velvet of Morith's voice in her mind caused Arddra to smile. She turned to look over at the bronze and gave a thumbs up gesture to assure both she was ready. Turning back to the egg Arddra really hoped the gold inside was meant for her. If she did Impress she hoped it wouldn't affect her friendship with V'riy as she valued it greatly.
Turning her attention back to the motionless gold egg, Arddra wondered why it was taking so long to hatch. In all the past Hatchings she had been part of she was certain no egg took so long to hatch, gold or otherwise. A thought entered her mind, 'what if it didn't hatch?' She had heard some eggs didn't hatch but those were always described as unusually small eggs and never did she hear of a gold egg not hatching. Pushing the doubts aside, she continued to stand patiently with the other girls. It wasn't like she had any other matters to worry about, other than her recently hatched firelizard's next feeding time. Well if the egg didn't hatch by the time she needed to take care of her firelizards she will leave. Otherwise the firelizards were likely to come to her keening their hunger.
She suddenly heard a woman's voice loudly stating the gold who had left had the right of it. Arddra turned to see Indivara impatiently pushing through the gathered gold candidates to get to the egg. Arddra frowned, thinking the woman was rather rude.
"There's no need to be so rude, Indivara," Arddra told her firmly, reaching out a hand to stop the girl from plowing her way to the egg like she had the right. The younger woman twisted away before her hand could even touch her and before Arddra could do anything else, Indivara was knocking on the egg.
What happened next was something Arddra never expected. The egg crumbled into a foul smelling gooy mess with a half formed body of the occupant washing onto the sands. With reflexes she didn't know she had, Arddra jumped well clear of the rush of foul fluids and backed away from the entire scene, hands covering her face to block out the smell.
It was a horrid smell and it caused her to gag. Unfortunately this wasn't her first counter with the smell of rancid decay and death. It smelled quite close to the stench that filled her room up north when her husband was sick and feverish from what could only be be a terrible case of infection.
The horror of having the only gold dragon of this clutch die in the shell caused Arddra to want only one thing, to get away from it. Turning she ran to the only comfort she could find in this place. Without a backwards glance she ran straight for V'riy and wrapped her arms around him.
Turning her attention back to the motionless gold egg, Arddra wondered why it was taking so long to hatch. In all the past Hatchings she had been part of she was certain no egg took so long to hatch, gold or otherwise. A thought entered her mind, 'what if it didn't hatch?' She had heard some eggs didn't hatch but those were always described as unusually small eggs and never did she hear of a gold egg not hatching. Pushing the doubts aside, she continued to stand patiently with the other girls. It wasn't like she had any other matters to worry about, other than her recently hatched firelizard's next feeding time. Well if the egg didn't hatch by the time she needed to take care of her firelizards she will leave. Otherwise the firelizards were likely to come to her keening their hunger.
She suddenly heard a woman's voice loudly stating the gold who had left had the right of it. Arddra turned to see Indivara impatiently pushing through the gathered gold candidates to get to the egg. Arddra frowned, thinking the woman was rather rude.
"There's no need to be so rude, Indivara," Arddra told her firmly, reaching out a hand to stop the girl from plowing her way to the egg like she had the right. The younger woman twisted away before her hand could even touch her and before Arddra could do anything else, Indivara was knocking on the egg.
What happened next was something Arddra never expected. The egg crumbled into a foul smelling gooy mess with a half formed body of the occupant washing onto the sands. With reflexes she didn't know she had, Arddra jumped well clear of the rush of foul fluids and backed away from the entire scene, hands covering her face to block out the smell.
It was a horrid smell and it caused her to gag. Unfortunately this wasn't her first counter with the smell of rancid decay and death. It smelled quite close to the stench that filled her room up north when her husband was sick and feverish from what could only be be a terrible case of infection.
The horror of having the only gold dragon of this clutch die in the shell caused Arddra to want only one thing, to get away from it. Turning she ran to the only comfort she could find in this place. Without a backwards glance she ran straight for V'riy and wrapped her arms around him.