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"Thank you! They're very pretty! I'll be careful!" Tuaria assured the adult as she gratefully hopped away, glad to be dismissed. She couldn't afford the attention of too many more adults. Besides, she was eager to chat with Liluye about the event. Before she left, however, she noticed the older harpy give an almost wistful glance at a certain bright egg in the midst of a clutch. Her blue eyes lit with curiosity. Was that what the fuss was about? The possibility of a male addition to their colony?

Failing to keep her word, Tuaria's eyes were on the egg when she turned, and so she was most certainly not being careful when she bumped right into Liluye. "Oh! Sorry!" she chirped immediately, holding her wings up in apology. But her friend was grinning, and the grin was contageous.

"You think so?" she asked, bashful. "But that was a close call! I really didn't mean to make the grown-ups mad..." Tuaria hesitated and cast Liluye an indignant look. "And I'd have landed better if this hall weren't so small! It's far more open outside. I don't see why they couldn't have had the party out there..." she complained.

"Is that what this is all aout? Those eggs?" She peered at them closely, trying to make out the proud mother. "I can't see - who's their mother?"

Koda shook her head, "You are always welcome here, sister, provided you come with no ill intent."

The children caught her attention, so she gestured to the shy harpy to follow her. She greeted the children, barely able to contain her laughter at their thoughts and guesses. "Would you like to see the egg, little chicks?"

"Eww! That's gross!" Tuaria screeched musingly at Liluye's reference to blood. "But you know...you're kinda' right...still, it's pretty, don't you think? Like rubies." She smiled, though couldn't help recalling the look on Iris' face when the bronze chick questioned aloud the ceremony.

"You know, I'm not sure," Tuaria told her. "I've never attended one before, since we weren't eggs too long ago ourselves. But you're probaly right, we should go look."

Gasping suddenly as Koda addressed the pair, Tuaria beamed at the teenage harpy, glad to know she hadn't come to them on the account of their deeds. It seemed her conscience had een othering her much due to her frequent trips to where the taur resided. "We'd love to! Could we? Um, I just hope we don't mess anything up..."

Koda smiled gently, "Well, we're actually hoping it will be a boy. Males are very rare among our kind and normally hatch out of brightly coloured eggs like that one. Tonight we're having a naming ceremony for him and his honored sisters, so start thinking of good names!" She stood and mentioned for the three girls to follow her. "When we get close to the eggs be very quiet and careful not to touch them. They're very delicate at this stage."

The children had gone over to look at the eggs at a closer range. Einin smiled a little. She tucked the flower in her hand into her hair, folded her wings a little closer, and wandered in that general direction herself.

Liluye was not very much pleased by this idea. She screwed up her nose, fluffing her feathers. She didn't want to spend time around a baby! Orphen would think she'd abandoned him while he was on his little journey with the scary cervi. And she didn't want to have babies! That was for big harpies, not little harpies, like her!

"sound advice" she squawked, so low that it would probably go unnoticed.
eyes locked onto the ground again, shoulders hunched to show she felt slightly intimidated.
the older female was probably referring to harpy like her. though if Try had never met a male when she was younger, things might have turned out different.
eyes flashing upon the child for a moment, she could tell that she was not to fond of the idea. though as she grew older, the patenchal and opportunity for her would be far greater then most females could wish for.