"Look!" Minca said. She pointed at Elessia's egg which was starting to crack. Out emerged a female gold with blue swirls T'lan dragon, which stagered to Elessia. "Congratulation, Elessia!" Minca said.

Jelan stood in a grassy field beneath a violet sun, unsure where she was and attempting to return to Earth. Having recently discovered a new talent for teleportation, the girl had found herself transported to numerous unknown worlds each time she sought to return home. Sahbe, head on her forelegs, regarded her with one bleary eye, a gentle feeling of amusement radiating from the young dragoness. Tiny Aesre was fast asleep, curled in the circle of the Tiger Dragon’s tail, a wooly ball of grey.

The terran girl looked over at her pair of bonds, thankful that her meager new skill encompassed to include them when she was teleported. Sighing, she concentrated on the last city she has occupied when she left Earth. Yet as she felt her mind begin to tug her body to the location, a blurred image crossed her mind’s eye. Abruptly she found herself standing a few yards from what appeared to be a hatching.

There were good few dozen eggs still on the sands and only a handful of candidates, some already having acquired a new bond. Quickly she turned around to be sure that Sahbe and Aesre were still in attendance and, seeing that they were with her and unharmed, she turned to the woman who stood by two grown dragons. “I am Jelan Rose Doe, though most call me Sable," she offered in way of an introduction. "Would I be permitted to stand?” she asked. After all, if she had managed to teleport herself to a hatching, there was no reason why she couldn’t try her luck at the same time. As she waited for a reply she looked more closely at the hatchlings- such brilliant colors and beautiful forms!

Even as she watched the hatchlings her attention was abruptly drawn by one slowly rocking egg. The shell was a subtle mixture of black and brown, the two colors fading neatly into one another. Unsure if she should or even could approach, Jelan glanced back at the hostess.

Dragon nodded and walked up to A briliant black and silver egg. She stroked it .

Querine walked over to a deep green with silver and white swirls egg. Stroking it gently, she wondered what type of hatchling was in it.
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Torique and Sora split up. Sora approaching and stroking a deep blue with white swirls egg and Torique stroking a gold with purple swirls egg.
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Maiken looked around, examining each egg closely before stroking a crimson red with gold swirls egg, and stepping back in hopes of it hatching.

"All candidates are welcomed, for now, so you may go stroke the egg of your interest, Jelan," Minca said to Jelan while Torth and Ela bowed their heads to Jelan.

Maiken's egg started to crack. "Look!" Minca exclaimed, pointing to a female gold with red swirls hatchling. It headed right to Maiken. "Oh, Maiken, congratulations!" Minca yelled to Maiken. Then, Minca turned to Torth and Ela and said, "Wow, we have never had a T'lan dragon with any red before." All of a sudden there were three loud cracks. Out of Querine's egg scattered a male white hatchling with green and silver swirls, whom ran straight to Querine. Then, Minca, Torth, and Ela turned to see Torique and Sora patting their new hatchlings. Torique's hatchling was a gold male with purple swirls, and Sora's was a female blue with white swirls. "Odd," Minca said, "We have never had a T'lan dragon with any purple in it, either."

Jelan nodded her thanks, smiling nervously. Turning once more toward the eggs, she approached the black and brown one that had first drawn her with a careful tread, reaching a tentative hand out to gently caress the shell. She thrilled at the warmth of it, reveling the way the light danced off the subtle hues of the fading black and brown. Slowly she withdrew her hand, letting it fall to her side, and waited with baited breath for the next occurrence.

"We have never had more than one rare dragons in a clutch," Minca told the parents of the clutch. "The main colors are gold, silver, bronze, brown,white, green, blue, black, or any mixture of those colors. Look!" She was pointing to Jelan and Dragon. Jelan was patting a male brown hatchling with black swirls, and Dragon was patting a female silver with black swirls.

Tears or uncontained joy clouded Jelan’s eyes as she knelt down in front of the hatchling. She stroked his eye-ridges, watching as he leaned into her touch. “My god,” she whispered. She had never been exactly religious, by the meaning behind the phrase held true enough for this particular moment. “Do you have a name, little sir?” she asked, smiling gently. Sahbe had moved closer, though she still remained at a prudent distance from the parents and the clutch itself, and was now regarding the hatchling from over her bond-mate’s shoulder. Welcome, little brother.

"Clayton, Bladenia, Elesia, Maiken, Querine, Torique, Sora, Jelan, and Dragon, what are your dragons' names? Just ask them and they'll answer you telepathically." Minca asked, watching the candidates spoil their new bonds. "Also, don't forget to feed them, the bowls of meat are over on the table." She turned to her dragons, Torth and Ela. She remembers when they were only 5ft. long and 6ft. tall, but now they are 60ft. long and 64ft. tall. She found them, as eggs, on the beach of South America on Earth. They were the only two surviving eggs that were her mother's, Nia's, experiment. The other eggs had been eaten by other creatures.

Minca looked at Torth and Ela. "Torth, Ela," she said, "may I stand for one of your clutch?" Torth and Ela told her tat she was allowed to do so. Minca approached the smallest of the eggs, a solid bronze. She stroked it gentlely, and immediatly it cracked to reveal a female bronze. "Hello, Ella," Minca said. "I'm Minca." Minca grabbed a bowl of meat and started to feed Ella.

Dragon looked at the small thing and said out loud "She says its Yutsith!"

"Yutsith is a beautiful name," Minca said, carressing her new dragonling, Ella. Ella's bronze scales glistened almost as brightly as her silver father's and her gold mother's.

Maiken hugged the little gold and handed her some meat.*You are hungry right? I am Maiken.*
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Querine smiled down at the little white, green, and silver hatchling."I am Querine. Do you wish some food?"She asked him.
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Torique led the little one to some food and started feeding him, as Sora led her blue to near her mother and fed her.

"Sora, " Minca said to Sora, who was busy feeding her hatchling, "your little girl is 6ft tall and 6ft long, the largest in this clutch so far. You should be very proud. As of mine, well, it's the smallest a hatchling can be, 5ft tall and 4ft long. Your little girl is also the largest a hatchling can be. By the way, what's her name?"