Glory the Beautiful Twin
Salla Rohan smiled encouragingly at
the candidates. The four of them were standing in a square-formation
around the eggs, or maybe a circle, with only four people it was hard
to tell.
The five of them, the candidates and Salla, had been standing there for
fifteen minutes, ever since the eggs had begun shaking. Though the
candidates were still fixed on the cream-coloured ovals, Salla was
starting to get bored. She would never show it and kept smiling to the
candidates, but inside she was elsewhere.
Salla’s mind wandered from the slowly increasing flow of candidates
from other planets to the new dragons that had been hatching all around
Cyatri. That thought led her straight back to the four eggs before her.
Sighing, she shook her head and smiled, she never had been good at
daydreaming. To keep her mind entertained she went over her batch of
candidates again. She had studied their files and talked to each of
them.
The first was a beautiful young woman from a planet they had gotten
more candidates from lately. Though she was highly revered for her
wisdom and looks at home, Salla had not seen anything out of the
ordinary about her. She seemed to be just like any other young woman, a
bit more confident and expressive maybe.
Finally the grey-black moved first, to Glory.
“Hello Glory, my name is Simmu.”
“You’re very beautiful Simmu.” Glory said, “I hope you are also
intelligent enough not to rely on it.”
The dragoness looked at Glory for a moment before she finally spoke
with a careful voice: “I am not out of the ordinary among my species,
you might think so, but beauty is not as important among my kind. I
suppose that is why you came here. To get away from it all.”
