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"I'll probably have to pull you along, since you may sink to the bottom, yet I can definitely do that." Cornelius stated. He stuck out his neck and let his tongue come out and lick her on the face. He then let his tongue slide down her neck and pulled it back before saying, "Sorry, I tend to get carried away, but I'm really up to have some very personal time with you."

Cornelius smiled at her with a toothy dragon grin and said in a cocky manner, "I suppose you can float since you're carrying my eggs after all, and you're the kind of dragon you are. Other dragons would sink like rocks in the water, if we knew any."

"Anyway," he added as he felt her head against his neck, "let's get you out on the water and then we might be able to tell how big you've gotten. Our "pool" if you want to call it that is a pretty decent size. If you're not taking up at least half of it with your new body, well, then you can't be that big and I will be able to properly swim with you."

He hugged her belly with his scaly arms and wondered if it might be possible for his children to hear or feel their parents now. He posed this question the Janis and asked, "Have you ever felt our children move within their eggs before? It's probably extremely hard to tell since there are two layers between them and the outside world, your wonderful belly and each of their individual egg shells."

Cornelius led her into the water and as he did he told her, "I think they would likely take a week and no more. You've held them inside your belly they should be fully developed little pups."

(Hey, would you like to do another time skip again? I know you've been kind of busy, so perhaps we should hasten this along a little again so that it doesn't stall.)

Cornelius led herby the hand around the pool for some time. A good thirty minutes before saying, "In this water, I've come to realize you're quite buoyant." He smiled at her and rubbed the big scales on her her belly thinking aloud, "Have we officially named our children and do we know their genders? We should find out soon if possible."

As Cornelius rubbed her bell he shook his head no and said, "I'm really not sure how we can determine their genders. If they're inside eggs, well, they'll need to hatch first." As his hooves scratched over the surface of her scaly belly he noticed how hard they were and because of this was very glad Janis had become a dragon. It meant extra safety for their little ones and less strain on her.

Noticing her belly's size though he asked, "You've gained a lot of weight recently. Do you think it's time for them to be born yet?"

Cornelius moved aside and decided to follow Janis back to the nest. She was so big now he did not want her to trip anywhere or on anything. He smiled as he followed her. "I'll help you get to sleep. If you're tired that is and sleep next to you to make sure nothing goes wrong."

"Nothing will go wrong," Cornelius promised as he sat down next to Janis and lay his body next to hers. "Dragons actually have safer births at times than humans. All you have to do is sit and wait, seriously, I think if dragons are much like birds are then you'll just need to warm up your eggs a week or so after you lay them and we'll have little dragons running around. The only problem we'll probably face from there is their ability to tear through everything. They'll be a lot like puppies, so we need to make sure they don't eat something they shouldn't."

Cornelius laughed as he remembered his mother having told him this information a while back. He wished she was still around. She would have been quite happy.