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[dearkaiserin]

[...uh

excuse me

why am i sleeping on an egg]

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[pyrrhic_thunder]

[GRUNTS UNHAPPILY but he rolls onto his back, SHAMELESS, and sits up to rub at his eyes. He coughs a few times, thumping his chest.]

Whassit?

...



[blinks a few times before he realizes 1) there's a naked lady in bed with him

and 2) who she is]


....Uh.

[SO SMOOTH. His eyes keep flicking down to her boobs and then quickly looking away.]

[dearkaiserin]

[...smooth, Red.

Usually she doesn't appreciate things like that, but he's so clearly bewildered that she can't help but laugh. and maybe look him up and down once or twice, but who's paying attention to that sort of thing

She forgets for a second why she was concerned.]

Hello.

[She's got her own collection of scars -- the most notable one being the familiar symbol scarred over just above her hipbone, but there's a few more either from accidents or from her own experiments.]

[pyrrhic_thunder]

....Hi.

Ahuehm.

[He coughs again and casually pulls the blanket up over his most PRIVATE PARTS]

This place is--

[He stops muttering when he sees the scar. It's almost un familiar at first, seeing it on someone else, a scar instead of a burn, and he furrows his brow as he scrutinizes it.]

1/2

[dearkaiserin]

[Pfft. Modesty, at a time like this? She's about to make some comment on it, but...]

[dearkaiserin]

[...then he's looking down, and she can tell what he's focused on.

But she doesn't make any attempt to cover the scar. She just watches him.]

...

[pyrrhic_thunder]

[well on some level he's still a weenie joume]

[He looks back and forth between her scar and the brand on his side. They couldn't BOTH be that unlucky, could they?]

Is that...?

[He doesn't finish; she can probably tell by his grimace that he already knows what it is.]

[dearkaiserin]

Yes.

[She's not looking directly at him, now.]

And you, too.

When did you get yours?

[pyrrhic_thunder]

[He pulls his gaze away and looks at the rumpled blankets in his lap.]

...first time I tried to get out. Few months in.

[dearkaiserin]

[...she nods, slowly.]

So he made sure you'd be returned to him.

[She fingers her own mark gently.]

...you tried to get out. More than once.

[She sounds...almost impressed.]

[pyrrhic_thunder]

Mmm... Yeah. First time I thought I could outsmart him. Next time I just thought I could outrun him.

[He sighs, reaching to the bed stand for a pack of cigs almost unconsciously.]

Wrong on both accounts.

[He pats the drawer down for a pack and

almost knocks an egg off the bed in the process]

1/2

[dearkaiserin]

Mm. That's--

[--she lunges to the side to steady the egg and pull it further onto the bed.]

Oi. Be more careful with those, they...

[dearkaiserin]

...they're.

Ah.

[...touches. one of the eggs. Electricity plays against her fingers like she's touching a plasma globe.]

Red?

[pyrrhic_thunder]

[It finally dawns on him that the eggs are... well... there.]

What...

[He edges away from the LIGHTNING EGG, bumping up against the one he was cuddling in his sleep earlier.

Probably because it's super warm and toasty.]

...The hell?!

[dearkaiserin]

...

...

I think we may have had a nest.

[She picks up one of the lightning eggs (a little awkward, since it's twice the size of her head) and peers inside -- and, yes, that is definitely a tiny lizardy thing floating in the very center.]

[pyrrhic_thunder]

We-- nest? How the hell do you figure--

...


[He happens to glance at one of the bitemarks on his arm and suddenly IT ALL COMES FLOODING BACK.

He picks up the warm egg and regards it uncertainly. There's a definite living glow from that one, too.]

Like........ kids?

[I AM NOT READY TO BE A DRAGONDAD]

[dearkaiserin]

[She just. Puts down the egg. And stares at it.]

...kids.

[STARES...]

...I'm not prepared for this.

[pyrrhic_thunder]

Well


Maybe



when they hatch they can just be released into the wild or somethin.

I mean



They're. Dragons. Right?

[dad of the year right here]

[dearkaiserin]

...You're a dragon expert now?

[She's still touching the lightning egg. Somehow it's soothing.]

I don't know what to do with them either, though.

[She ponders this for a moment.]

I wonder if Fubuki's here.

[pyrrhic_thunder]

Well, I sure don't know how to... raise them or anything!

Fubuki?

[i can't remember if obsidian ever introduced himself as anything but another kaiser lol]

Eh.... Since these things are just... temporary, maybe they'll disappear too.

[dearkaiserin]

She was a friend.

[...disappear?]

Maybe.

[She sounds weirdly. offended, at the idea, though.

why is she getting attached]

[pyrrhic_thunder]

...She know something about dragons?

[He sounds a bit incredulous. flying around in the ridic red-eyes costume doesn't count]

Yeah... I mean... that'd probably be best.

[His warm orangey egg is a lot smaller than Kaiserin's and it's just kind of sitting in his lap :T ]

Maybe they're not even real. Just this place fuckin with us some more.

[dearkaiserin]

No. But she knows how to take care of things.

[She glances at Red's egg, then back to her own.]

...they look real to me.

[When she pulls her hand away from hers, it comes away with a short burst of static that's briefly visible in the dim room.]

And feel real.

[pyrrhic_thunder]

[oh jeeze don't shoot me with your egg]

I mean... I guess so, but...

[but i'm a weenie]

[He cups his egg and lifts it up... then wheezes out a sigh.]

I'm not cut out for this.

[The egg glows a little more brightly where he's touching it, and a few tiny flames lick up from its surface. He almost drops it in surprise, but he catches himself.]

I don't know anything about kids! ... Or dragons!

[dearkaiserin]

Neither am I.

[She looks over at him, out of the corner of her eye.]

...maybe they'll bite our enemies.

[kaiserin]