HRWClutch:37/NPCs

HRW Clutch 37/NPCs

Celadon green and Yesia

The hatching begins with a bang: the Water Wins Out Egg explodes in a flurry of shards before the candidates have even made it all the way out onto the sands. The celadon green within takes two step forwards, startles herself with her own wings, and then all but throws herself in Yesia's direction (shoving, forcefully, past Laine as she goes). Does that count as auspicious?

Blue / green

The Restless Volcano Egg-- certainly living up to its name!-- shudders and rolls, clattering straight into the Vallum Hadriani Egg beside it. Both crack open at once, revealing a green and a blue who find their partners in quick succession.

Purpleish blue and Olrina

There's a purpleish tint to the blue that emerges from the Verisimilitude Egg, allowing him-- almost-- to blend in with his shell a little longer. But then he's off, teetering away from the remains of that egg and towards the white-robed candidates. White-blonde Olrina gasps, falling to her knees in front of him; she's crying too hard to say his name, but with his head pressed to her shoulder, and her arms around him, there's no question that Impression has occurred.

Green and weyrbred girl / green and boy

Wall Egg and Orthodox Egg shudder into each other, like one solid structure toppling into another; the egg-shell carnage is inevitable. Both reveal greens within, greens that scamper off in different directions. One's quick to find her weyr-born mate; the other is slower, meandering aimlessly-- and increasingly piteously-- before she finally collapses into her chosen boy.

Blue

The undulating green ribbons on Dance of the Spirits Egg begin to move in earnest, to a steady pulse that is practically an expression of the beating heart within. On every fourth shudder, the strength of the hatchling's resolve must flare for that's when the cracks spread, in lopsided rings. The audible splitting of shell away from itself applauds the end of the dance as a blue bows out of the shards and within moments is claiming a partner for the dance of life.

Fierce green

No longer an example of perfect lines and angles, the Monument to Perfect Lines Egg spirals into a chaos of uneven cracks as first a green wingspar punches through the surface and then the thrash of her tail is through. It takes some moments of struggle against the once-perfect cage but then the fierce green has pulled herself out of the shards to wiggle free of the detritus and begin her search on the Sands, one that ends with finding her lifemate.

Green and girl from the Seacraft / blue and Paz

Bang goes the Reaching With Futility Egg, shattering as it smashes up against the last remaining egg-- Throw Away The Key. The blue and green within the pair of eggs get tangled as they escape, making it quite impossible to see which came from which egg. They move off in tandem, finally making the final Impressions: the green to a girl from the Seacraft, and the blue to Paz.