31.Jan.21, 01:24 PM
But does it always take so long? Mads thought to the egg. He wanted to be certain that this wasn't going to be an utter waste of his time, that he would come out of this entire process of touchings and hatchings and weyr life with a dragon to call his own. He had a hard time with failure, bringing him down a peg or two was never something that Madelan appreciated no matter what his parents might have insisted on. "Obviously they must not have been good enough," he told the egg with a false sense of bravado that he could pretend he felt. But he took the words to heart anyway and moved off.
Did he need anyone else but himself? He could do pretty much everything alone if he wanted to but it was a little less fun to do it without other people to join in on the ride. He reached the next egg and studied it a moment, would he touch it or would he do what a couple of the other candidates did and give up? Never a quitter. Madelan laid his palm on the warm shell.
Egg #10
Did he need anyone else but himself? He could do pretty much everything alone if he wanted to but it was a little less fun to do it without other people to join in on the ride. He reached the next egg and studied it a moment, would he touch it or would he do what a couple of the other candidates did and give up? Never a quitter. Madelan laid his palm on the warm shell.
Egg #10