Relissi stood on the sands beside another girl, relating the hatching to the blind candidate as the first egg cracked open. The red hatchling that emerged hissed and stamped the shards of its egg into the sand before galloping toward one of the female candidates.
Two more eggs cracked, revealing two silver dragons. Relissi gasped as the first of the silvers, a female, walked towards her, and nuzzled the hand of Saorise beside her. The blind girl nodded her understanding as Relissi continued to describe the hatchling to her, then lead her Ionuin away.
Anxiously, Relissi turned back to the rest of the eggs. A green and two reds were squabbling among themselves. Finally, one of the red sisters moved away towards the phoenix Ea. The other red and the green moved towards another female candidate, and knocked their bond to the ground with their eagerness.
Two whites merged and chose male candidates, then three eggs burst open at once, spilling two blues, a red, and a green onto the sand. The first to bond was a blue, who rushed over to the boy, who'd already bonded a white, and he lead his two bonds away to be fed.
The red and green, meanwhile, had taken to chasing their other blue brother around the sands, before he took shelter behind the tall gryphon-man Skan.
With a glance at her sister, the green calmly walked forward while the red sat back on her haunches, waiting for her turn to bond. The green knew who she wanted, and went straight to Relissi, and knelt down and threw her arms around the hatchling's neck.
Mikeneko just stared at the hatchling suspiciously. Listen here, you. He said to the Hathian. I am not food, you do not come near my food, you do not come near me. Got that?
Vobis simply stared at the cat, and jumping out of Relissi's arms, she seemed almost to purr herself as she nuzzled the much smaller feline. Mikeneko growled, but due to the hatchling's larger size and claws, put up with the indignation.
