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Date Posted: 03:59:30 10/03/01 Wed
Author: Bronze Dragonet Zephyth
Subject: Hatching!

One of the eggs starts rocking slightly more than its neighbours. Muffled noises can be heard from inside it, then a light chipping, which soon intensifies in both volume and urgency. A crack slowly appears near the top of the egg, and then a small piece breaks away. A nose-tip breaks through, and a keening is heard as the dragonet struggles to free itself from the confines of the egg.

Metirth breaks her low humming to bugle encouragement at her child, then rejoins Conoth, Sokorth and the fire lizards in the harmony that hails the creation of new life and the pairing of dragons and their life mates. The sound reverberates off all of the seating and walls of the hatching grounds, seeming to almost visibly vibrate in the air.

The dragonet seems to find new resolution and soon a wingtip appears. The other follows, then the dragonet extends its wings to the fullest, shattering the egg and revealing to everyone a average-sized dragonet with a wet, glinting bronze hide, scrawny wings and flaming red eyes. It squawks angrily, then twists his head around, surveying all that are there.

His eye must have caught one particular person, for he is soon moving unsteadily forward, each step wobbling and almost falling. When he nears his lifemate he jumps, landing right at the feet of the person that will share his life and all that happens in it from this day forward. He looks up, and meets a pair of blue eyes. The red in his eyes flickers out like a flame, to be replaced by a loving blue.

I am Zephyth and you impress me.

The blue in his eyes is once again replaced by a whirling red as hunger pushes aside the emotions that impression had induced. He gives a creel, and headbutts the male in front of him.

Can I eat now, J'rdan?

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((I'm changing how my name is put, okies? J'dan? Maybe?)) > -- J'dan - Zephyth, 15:33:03 10/03/01 Wed