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Cyrci couldn't help, but offer a smile smile to the energetic green as she slinked through the ranks of girls. It seemed the little dragon was playing a game of some sort as she looked for hers. She certainly didn't seem to be in any hurry unlike the brown who seemed to be systematically picking out his from the crowd.

It amused Cyrci how extremely different the two dragons from the same clutch could be. Glancing back at the eggs she paused. Wasn't the gritted teeth egg close to hatching before the prankster and jitterbug took the stage? She remembered seeing the dancing egg give a twitch too. Frowning she turned her gaze back to the little black Deceptively delicate egg.

Hatch dear glorious one. Please hatch. She willed in her mind watching the little egg with both worry and pride. Worry that something was wrong, but pride in her assurance that whatever dragon lay beneath the surface of that egg would make it.

Smiling at the little shell she turned her attention back to the other eggs and the hatched dragons wondering what would happen next.

Although his eyes strayed to the Impressed rider-dragon duo occasionally, his main attention was on the hatchlings, and his emotions ran high enough that he was almost afraid of it spilling over and around and all through the Sands.
Regardless of this, he kept his eyes where they should be, watching the dragons, watching the to-be riders, and trying to contain the excitement inside of him.

Just what was it about a Hatching that got everyone in a good mood? Perhaps... it was the fact that everyone came together in such a way that it didn't matter who you were, just where you were when it happened... And the dragons, the lovely dragonets, stumbling about the Sands, or... sneaking, as that green was doing. It was all so breathtaking, but also so exciting. And of course, there was the background hum of anticipation writhing throughout the crowd. Who would be next? Would there be one for every Candidate? He heard the voices in the stands, just as well as the others around him could.

Picking his way through the boys, he finally spotted His and trotted up to nose the young man, pressing against his Rider for a moment before stepping back, Your Skewth is here, ShedrawnMine. Feed me?



And the green, after sneaking about some more, heard the laughter of Hers and fairly bounced into the young woman with a call of joy and reared up to press forepaws into Anneke's stomach, big eyes whirling with hunger and happiness. AnnekeMine! Your Uluth is so very hungry! Come play and eat?



And with that, two more dragons had Impressed... leaving gazes to turn back to those still in the egg pile.

Adi was late! Not that it mattered, since she wasn't a Candidate and couldn't get in trouble for being late to a Hatching, but still! She'd missed things. She'd been outside, and Mazamath had been back in their weyr (he had no intentions of hurrying, thank you!), and...well, even though she'd booked it when she heard the humming start, she missed an Impression (on the other hand, she was glad she'd missed a dragonet going between, which always broke her heart to see), and there were already a couple more hatchlings looking for Theirs.

Pausing to catch her breath, the bluerider scouted the crowd before sidling over towards M'cel and R'ne as the two dragons on the Sands found their partners. Geeze! If she'd been much slower, she might have missed the whole clutch, as quick as they seemed to be to find Theirs.

"Hey guys," she offered brightly, dropping into a seat. Man, were her legs ever tired!

That is what happens when you run, Mazamath reminded her.

Seyari clapped with the rest for the Impression. Both dragonets had found theirs, and it was just so joyous! His heart gave a little flip-flop when he thought about it, trying to stay calm, cool, collected.... Failing miserably, but trying anyway. He smiled at the new-minted riders, canting his head in short celebration of the miracle that was Impression, before looking back to the sands, almost wishing, hoping, praying. And he found his eyes straying. Straying to the one egg he'd sung to. Hoping it would find it's own this day...

He didn't know why he was suddenly so drawn, so worried about the silent egg, but he was. And it was... odd, to say the least. A lot of different emotions he usually didn't feel this strongly were overflowing in him. And he was letting it happen. After all, you can't force a waterfall to stop flowing. He couldn't clamp down on the joy, the wonder, the amazement, or the excitement too hard.. it was still bubbling, just under the surface.

The brown sifted through the boys and then seemed to have found his. He ran in Shedrawn's general direction and he had half turned to congratulate the boy beside him when the brown stopped very close and nudged him.

Your Skewth is here, ShedrawnMine. Feed me?

Slowly almost unbelieving Shedrawn scratched an eyeridge on the beautiful brown. Then he broke a huge grin and bright lights seemed to glow in his head. He had impressed and Skewth was his. His forever. A beautiful brown. Shedrawn couldn't wait to rub the multicolored hide with oil.

Oil yes but food first? I am so hungry.

"Oh yes of course Skewth" he said and scratching the ridges once again led his dragon over to the feeding tables. He knabbed a chunk of meat and fed his dragon for the first time. The brown hummed with approval and soon Shedrawn had to grab more meat.

He still couldn't believe that this spunky creature had chosen him. He felt all warm and fuzzy inside.

"Contain him? Come on, I'm probably the worst person to ask," she answered with a good-natured laugh. "Besides, he's older than us! He's the one who should know better, so we can't possibly be held responsible for him."

Adi was mid-wink when M'cel revealed why he was cheering for Anneke, resulting in a rather curious expression for a second while that filtered through. "Wow, you mean, like, she's yours yours? That's awesome! Bet you're really proud, then. Congratulations!"