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Sevya watched as dragons found partners with surprising speed. Shards, it'd be over in an hour, she just knew it. Thankfully, they were not having trouble finding riders; it'd be rather inauspicious should any of them have to go between.

Well, the bronze and gold seemed to be taking their sweet time about it, which was somewhat alarming. Particularly the gold - what was she doing? Then again, there were lots of candidates to choose from. Thankfully, not her. It'd be all sorts of wrong should the gold look her way!

She nearly missed the blue pushing free from his egg. If not for the mutters and gestures of the candidates near her, Sevya would totally have missed him, so intent was she on the metallic hatchlings.

Another Impression, and not to her. Shards. Was here lifemate here?... She knew a lot of people stood several times before finding Theirs, and that more still never Impressed at all. Knowing this didn't make it any easier to stand on the burning sands and watch other people find the other half of themselves. Where was Hers?

As longing thrummed deep within the pit of her stomach, Kleos turned her eyes onto the remaining eggs. Let one of them be for her, please. Knowing that she could survive not being chosen was looking less and less reassuring as time went on.

Mercy watched the blue as it wandered to and fro - even looked earnestly at several people before laying down. She was vaguely worried that the poor beast had given up his search but it seemed like she was mistaken cause a moment later it seemed like it had impressed. The gold and bronze though still wandered about

Meanwhile, the popular New Day egg finally began to wiggle, with the hatchling’s wings and back breaking through first, forcing her to back out of the shell. With part of it still stuck to a forelimb, the pretty green called a friendly greeting to everyone as she stepped, stumbled, and rolled, covering herself in goeey sand. Sneezing hugely, the green chirped in something akin to an embarrassed laugh before continuing on, sand and all. Hers was here somewhere!

While the little green searched, the gold and bronze were clustered around the Royal Bands egg as if waiting. It wasn’t long before the gold’s impatience won out again and she rolled the egg, trying to get it to stir. Feynath rumbled at her daughter, flashing teeth and mantling wings as the little gold dared the wrath of her mother for the second time during the Hatching. Curiously, however, neither the gold nor the bronze cared about the Event Horizon egg… perhaps it was a dud.

It was really hard not to find the antics of the newly hatched green completely adorable and Mercy smiled despite the growing worry over not being chosen. The gold and bronze seemed to be interested in one of the other eggs and she was somewhat interested to see why. Hopefully they were waiting for a friend and not to start another fight. In the meantime she watched the little green as she worked her way through the candidates.

With the rumbling and less then subtle order given by the Senior Queen, both the bronze and the gold seemed reluctant to leave their sibling’s side. Eventually, though, the queen huffed and kicked sand on the egg in a show of frustration but all it did was cover the new dragon’s recently revealed head in sand. A brown, it seemed, had pushed through at last and sneezed at the assault of the young queen. Rumbling with a sound akin to ‘why’dyoudothat?’, he shrugged out of the shell. He was large for his size and a rich hue of brown.

The new queen rumbled at him with exasperation and turned away, her gaze finally sweeping across the female candidates. She’d sensed Hers already and it was just a matter of finding the woman… once everything was perfect, that is!

The bronze, however, trundled over to the boys now that his siblings had revealed himself. Discerning and intelligent, he wandered through the ranks, neither acknowledging nor encouraging any touch a brave soul might venture. This was a bronze on a mission!

Oh, that explained it! The bronze and the gold were waiting for their friend the brown! Soldekai couldn't quite stop the grin from forming on his face - it was pretty cute to watch these two very serious-looking metallics clustered around an egg waiting for their buddy to hatch. And the brown's expression when he got accidentally covered in sand! Ha!

The New Day egg turned out another green. Seemed like there were quite a few sweet, laid-back greens this time around, with only those two grumpy blues causing a serious ruckus so far. And he couldn't refrain from chuckling slightly as that one blue flopped down in the sand and (presumably) made His come over and get him.

Soldekai prepared to get out of the way in a hurry as the bronze came their direction. He didn't seem aggressive at all... but he was definitely determined to find something, and bronzes were big. You didn't want to get on the wrong side of those claws, even by accident.