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Looking across the sands, your eye is drawn to a group of eggs that seem to glow from within. After staring at them for a whle in amazement, you realize that their glow is merely the light reflecting off their brilliantly coloured shells. Odd, you didn't think eggs could be quite that shiney. Shells softly gleaming, two eggs lean against each other in touching solitude. One is half again as large as the other, but they both have the same cool red color, like rubies in shadow. From the trusting way the smaller egg huddles against the larger, you wonder with some amusement what kind of bond th ehatchlings may share. Seven eggs lay in a haphazard pile midway between the stands and the entrance to the bowl. Four are indistinct pale hues, glowing and mottled. a fifth is half-burried in the sand, with only the upper curve of its black shell visible; next to it lies another egg not quite so dark- twilight rather than night. The last egg sits in solemn splendor, larger than the others and of an unusuall enough shade of pruple to draw attention to itself alone. As light from Rukbat diffuses throughout the hatching sands, your eyes fall upon the furthest edge of the mound, where the sand has been piled up the highest. There, delicately nestled between the forelegs of the queen and lovingly protected from all harm, lies an enormous golden egg, easily half again as large as its clutchmates. The light glimmers off its metallic shell. Every possible golden shade is somewhere on this egg, as though it is a glimpse into a miner's secret store of gold. Slightly blurred striations of black run from the crest of the egg to the bottom, giving the oviod a marbled appearance. A cluster of smaller eggs lie at Lyrith's side, occasionally covered by her folding and unfolding wings

Green Splotched Egg

Dark green splotched with purest silver. As your eyes trace the curve from blunt point to sand-swathed end, an image comes to mind of morning fog threading through pine trees. The egg shivers slightly, flashing light into your eyes as bright as the sun off damp pine needles.

Multicolored Egg

This egg gives you the same impression as looking at delicate tile patterns from too short a distance... there are small clusters of every imaginable color dotting out in what is surely some kind of pattern, but as near as you are, just what they portray is impossible to guess. Instead, the vibrant multicolored hues serve to catch every eye that skims across the sands..

Violet Egg

Your eye glances off then flicks back then stays, mesmerized by the deep violet glory of this egg. Darker than any amethyst ever mined, it lies in waiting, rocking only now and again to capture and recapture your attention with winks of brilliant dusk-purple.

Striped Teal Egg

At first, the striking shade of teal which covers this egg reaches out to you, making you believe that it is the sole coloring on the shell. But as you look closer, you can notice several dark streaks which wrap around the egg, almost uniformly. These streaks are what gives the teal a darker, and sharper, feel to it.

Deep Black Egg

The black depths of this small egg immediately catches your attention. The color is neither matte nor gloss, as though you were staring into a well so deep that the bottom could never be reached. Despite its somber color, however, you notice that the reflections of its neighbors seem subtly changed, and made even more beautiful as viewed on this shell. It is, though, rather small...even for a dragon egg..

Pale Tan Egg

Your eyes almost miss this egg as you scan through the sands. It is a pale, unassuming shade of tan that would almost blend in with the sands themselves if it were not for the jewellike sparkles from where the light glances off it. As you examine it more closely, you see that the sparkles actually are created by opalescent spots that decorate the shell.

Large Golden Egg

As the person next to you gasps in awe, you crane your head to see what has caught their eye. Beneath Lyrith's watchful gaze, your eyes focus on what is surely the queen egg. Easily half again as large as its clutchmates, and set carefully aside so its radiance is all the more obvious, the glinting shell seems to make all the previous (and most likely all the future) eggs a pale shadow of its beauty. Every possible golden shade is somewhere on this egg, as though it is a glimpse into a miner's secret store of gold. Slightly blurred striations of black run from the crest of the egg to the bottom, giving the ovoid a marbled appearance. The glinting of light off its wet shell simply adds an ethereal beauty to it.

Rippled Egg

At first you wonder if this egg is malformed, but looking closer you see that the rippling effect is caused by cascades of gentle green and blue shades, one upon the other, seemingly in imitation of the ripples of a disturbed pond. The colors blend into one another so subtly that the light makes it appear as though the shell itself was actually ridged.

Burgundy and Silver Egg

You stifle an urge to giggle as you notice this egg. A deep burgundy color on almost all of its surface, it has a streak of pure silver running across it in such a manner that if you only glimpsed it, you would think it had a crack in it. Despite the unconventional appearance, though, it appears to be in all other respects a rather ordinary egg, if you can call an egg as big as a man ordinary, that is.

Dull Grey Egg

With all the gentleness of a sudden summer shower, the greys of this egg manage to depict a delicate latticework of designs. At the narrow tip of the egg, the darker grays form raindrops against a pale gray sky, while as your eyes trace down the egg these drops merge to form a background for a lacy design of pale gray. At the round bottom of the egg, the myriad shades of gray swirl together in a spiral pattern.

Dark Red Egg

This egg glowers a shadowy, sultry red against the sands like a ruby set in gold. Its distance from the other eggs forestalls comparison, and its perfect ovoid shape belies its being one of the smallest in the clutch. Peering more closely, you discern a lattice of deeper red against the shell's cool background.

Small, Bright Yellow Egg

Your eye is immediately drawn to this smallish egg. What it lacks in size it certainly makes up for in color. Mostly an almost blinding shade of yellow, it is splashed with shades of orange and red that are almost as bright. Those splashes look almost like someone accidentally spilled a few buckets of paint on it.

Soft Blue Egg

The smooth matte blue color of this egg makes the rays of light that touch its surface shimmer and dance like miniature lizards in a lake. Where its neighbors reflect in its surface, their own colors and patterns are changed into whimsical blue reflections of themselves, further complementing this luminescent egg.

Shiny Green Egg

The smooth, shiny shell of this egg reflects most of the light that strikes it, giving it the appearance of being lit from within. The clear green shades that make up the swirled pattern of the shell help to further this illusion. Gazing at it, you are reminded of the sky when seen from under the surface of the lake at High Reaches Weyr.

Brown Swirled Egg

Splotches of brown mottle the shell of this egg, but what really draws your eye to it are the wonderfully scripted swirls of green that intermix among the uneven blots of brown, as if they've been woven around and through the brown colors to hold it together. The mixing reminds you of a cool summer's day on a field full of fresh grass.

Light Blue Egg

At first glance of this egg, you wonder where the hole in the cavern came from. The light blue shell has enough white and a yellowish tinge to make you think you're looking straight into a morning sky. The almost turquoise shade of blue covers the egg completely without design, a solid coloring contrasting greatly with the sands that surround it.

Deep Blue Egg

I will be noticed! Only one swirl of off-white wraps around the top third of the egg, but otherwise the tinge of blue dominates the shell.

Soft Light Yellow Egg

At first glance this egg looks golden, but upon closer inspection you notice two things: the size of this egg is smaller than the other eggs laid, and when you look at it more, you notice that the color isn't gold, but a solid maize-yellow shade instead. The egg seems to shine in the right light and give a golden hue to it.

Variegated Brown Egg

This egg looks like a sunset on the desert sands. Many swirls of tan, rusted bronze and dark red decorate the shell with the lighter shades concentrating near the top of the egg, while the dark red turns to an almost brown near the bottom.

Bright White Egg

This bright white egg makes you shiver as you look at it. Almost glossy in sheen, it stands out from the pair of dull grey eggs that flank it on each side. In the right light, the shell almost looks icy in substance.. like it is beginning to melt just by resting on the sands.

Light Yellow Egg

As your eyes search through the sands to identify the eggs, they are drawn to the cheery warmth of this lovely yellow egg. This egg does not shine where the light touches it, but instead becomes almost luminescent as it pulses with sunny spirits. Its steady glow bathes its nearest neighbors in a gentle light.

Soft Brown Egg

Shiny from the caul about it, this brown egg looks very soft...almost liquid. As you gaze, you notice a very subtle red dispersed about the shell, calling to mind the color of a freshly brewed vat of apple cider.

Blue-grey Egg

The blue-greyness of this egg is not remarkable alone, but combined with the glossiness of the wetness upon it, it appears remarkably like the skin of a shipfish: tough, but slightly pliable.

Storm Grey Egg

Billowing grey storm clouds seem to roil across the surface of this egg, filling you with the same nervous foreboding you feel when you look at a storm-tossed sky. You wonder if the appearance of the egg foretells anything about the occupant.

Lava Red Egg

Although this egg is small compared to some of the others, its brilliant color immediately attracts your attention - a bright, almost pulsing orange red, the color of molten rock. You have no trouble believing that a tiny life sleeps and grows within this egg.

Shimmering Mica Egg

Although this egg is the usual shape, it seems to have facets and planes like the stone it otherwise resembles, mica. Flecks and facets of soft brown, glowing yellow and glossy black shimmer from the surface of the egg.

Blushing Pink Egg

The palest of pinks blushes across the surface of this egg, making it look softer than a rose petal. The pink darkens towards both ends of the egg, just as the color of a flower deepens in the center. The rosy pink is much like the color of a young maiden's cheek, as well.

Skin Peach Egg

The surface of this egg looks like an open hand. Thin lines and whorls mark the surface, and the egg is the color of a person's palm, a pinky peach color. It clashes slightly with the sand it lies in, making it a little hard to look at for very long.

Chalky White Egg

Very little seems to distinguish this egg. It is a uniform white color, standard egg shape and size. Looking closer, you see the surface of the egg is lumpy, and it resembles chalk to such a degree that you're afraid if you touch it, chalky dust will rub off on your hands.

Fuscia Egg

This egg glows with a soft radiance, its solid fuscia color not too bright, but not too dark. The shade is dark, almost purplish and varies from light to dark around the shell of the egg. Near the bottom a concentration of deep purple circles the base of the egg.

Bright Red Egg

You suppress an urge to giggle as your eyes alight on this egg. With its smaller end buried in the sand, it appears almost circular, and the bright red color makes it look like an oversized redfruit ripening in the sun. As the light plays over it, it sparkles so intensely that it would rival rubies for their color, for all that it has no facets to explain the intensity of the lights reflection.

Creamy White Egg

At first you feel a little sorry for this egg... unlike all its clutchmates, it seems to be a boring white, without a trace of color at all. When you look closer, however, you see that this is only a surface color, for just beneath the creamy outer color lurks a multitude of glistening colors, as if you were looking into the eye of a dragon with its innermost lid closed. Each time you move your head it seems to take on a different inner color.

Soft Pink Egg

The soft pink color of this egg reminds you of a dogwood's early blooms... bright in comparison to the winter paleness around you, but soft and delicate compared to the warmth of summer to come. The color contains just a hint of warmth, and a full measure of serene acceptance to whatever may befall it as it settles itself comfortably into the sands.

Soft, Multishaded Egg

The soft tones of this egg reminds you of a young child's watercolors... every conceivable shade is here, mixed together with no pattern whatsoever. Instead the colors seem to have been added in large, wet clumps, which then smear and streak together into an inimitable pattern.