Clutch:Hrw2/Eggs

Burnished Gold Egg

Like a treasure of the earth, this egg shines with magnificent splendor. A pure polished gold, as lovely and bright as the finest metal, is the egg's predominant color. Splashed through the smooth gold are thin snowy white streaks, each a highlight against the vibrant shell. As you look at the egg longer, you notice that every one of the marks is not actually a perfect shade of unbroken color; within each snowy streak, countless tiny flecks of copper glitter and gleam in the warm light of the Hatching Grounds. Given this egg's great size and beautiful color, there can be no doubt as to what is housed within.

Pinnate Blue-Green Egg

In the middling range of small, this egg is still quite distinctive amongst its siblings. Its surface is a rough blue-green, reminiscent of a forest's color at dusk. A spreading network of narrow jagged lines cuts across the egg like the web of a maddened gossamer spinner. The veins themselves are a pale grey that inscribe arrowing patterns over the shell's surface. Near the smooth edges of the veins, the egg's color is almost imperceptibly lighter; farther from the lines, it darkens and becomes a deeper hue.

Cumulus Grey Egg

Silvery-grey yet not metallic, this mid-sized egg nearly fades into the background among its more colorful companions. Its surface is not perfectly smooth, but rather a very uniform grainy texture which lends to the egg's shell a certain appearance of depth. As you look, you begin to notice faint variances in what you first believed to be the continuous soft shade of its shell. Tiny fissures of pale, pale blue run in fine strands over the egg, nearly invisible as they trace a faint pattern against the egg's raincloud grey

Striated Terra Cotta Egg Sitting on the hot sands, this egg resembles a desert stone, baked by the sun into a warm, honest color. It is a rather large egg, oval in shape, and the surface is smooth but not shiny, with a coarse-grained texture. A series of minute grooves and channels encircle the reddish brown shell in a slightly wavy design. The parallel bands are colored in a lighter shade, almost apricot, and appear as if someone had dragged the egg across a hard surface and left shallow gouges on it; not that Aurelinth would ever let any harm such as that come to her eggs.

Timorous Cream Egg

Calling this egg small is generous; it is tiny in comparison to the typical dragon's egg. Its shell is perfectly smooth and creamy white, the color of fair unblemished skin. Here and there on the surface of the egg, a diffused streak of color spreads across the pale cream, providing a richly-contrasting rosy pink. The soft glow of the rose reminds you of a pretty flush on fair skin, making the whole egg look as though it is blushing to be out in such a public place.

Pyroclastic Black Egg

Although not large, this egg stands out among the others. Its shell is a rough black, a distinctive ebon hue reminiscent of unpolished obsidian or onyx. But it truly catches your eye when you see that the shadowy darkness of its surface is cut in several places by flowing streaks that twist their way down along the shell like tiny rivers. Yet, unlike a river, each streak is a vivid, fiery orange, the color of the lava that flows from a smoking mountain. Each bend winds and twists its way down the side of the shell, forging a blazing path across the surface. The bright contrast between the streams of orange and the rough sable shell make this egg a dark gem upon the sands.

Celestial Lavender Egg

Swirled and streaked, this egg is a thousand times more vivid than the shining moons it so resembles; their colors dull and pale in comparison to those on its shell. Well-rounded and large, its silky surface is light grey suffused with a shadowy hint of lavender that flows over the grey. In places, a chaotic swirl of inky purple flows across the shell's surface, blending in with the lavender. Small dark patches of violet twist and eddy into wispy tendrils that sweep across the egg like swirling clouds blown by racing winds.