Absolute awe... -- Hatching Sands

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Date Posted: 13:52:02 05/08/05 Sun
Author: C'nis and Sioth
Subject: Absolute awe...
In reply to: Shrineth ; Sioth, Tolgath, Oveth, Zeeth 's message, "Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen" on 17:56:41 04/27/05 Wed

Keen ears hear the crack of shells to his left, and C'nis turns to watch them excitedly, intense blue eyes widening at the sudden sprays of fluid nutrients that leak out from the mottled ivory capsules, glistening onto the sands through pinprick holes formed by sharp young claws. His mocha hands clench at his sides in a sudden wave of hopeful emotion that sends his calm demeanor spiraling up into an uncomfortable lump at the base of his throat, but he doesn't pay attention ot it or the pain of his fingernails digging into his skin, for the eggs were hatching! He can't help but gasp as the tiny holes seem to lengthen into slits, then dance up together in thin lightning bolts of shadow across the surface of the eggs, branching upwards and out in a pattern the most talented of spinners would envy. Then the motion of the egg sends it falling to its side, and the intricate web of cracks shatters in a tiny explosion of glistening moisture and hardened shards. A tail emerges from this large hole, then legs erupt from the sides, the darkened bronze hide on each limb gleaming with both the aura of health and the reality of birth. Moments later and the dragon has freed himself, stretching his limber body in the most graceful maneuever C'nis has ever seen, before turning to face the Candidates with those great vibrant teal eyes.

C'nis can only stare for a moment, before a sudden growing weight in his chest reminds him to breathe, and another sharp crack to his left distracted him enough to turn his head towards the noise. In this briefest of instants, he is quite suddenly flung to the ground, the weight of that young bronze wonder falling upon his chest, and the sudden connection of the bronze's mind and soul with his own. Tears collect in the corner of softened blue eyes that just for this moment close, and send damp streams of emotion trickling down the sides of C'nis sandy face.

I am happy to have found you too, C'nis. But I am hungry, and I cannot move.

C'nis blinks at this and then nods, very delicately craning his neck forward to look at the situation. Spying the issue immediately, and surprisingly feeling it in his own back, he rolls slightly to his left so that the bronze could remove his wing from where it had been pinned. Then very carefully, he gives the dragon a gentle shove from beneath his chest to get him back on all fours, and scuttling backwards on the ground, pulls himself from beneath Sioth.

'Sioth?'

Yes that is my name, and I am still hungry. The dragon paused, And my wing is sore.

'You can hear me like this?'

Sioth released a soft breath in the quieter draconic version of a sigh, though his teal eyes still whirled in the joy of Impression... and perhaps a hint of amusement?

C'nis grimaced as his own stomach rumbled loudly, a grumbling reflection of his dragon's empty belly. Murmuring apologies in his mind, C'nis settles a stablizing hand on his dragon's back, and together the newly Impressed pair makes their way off the Sands...

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