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Hatchlings
 When Covelord Eklo came to fetch Bonders for the hatching, Vivi and Vitrem were two of the first on the scene. The green mother of the clutch had been very irritable for the past few days because of a lack of suitable humans and no one wished to upset her by being late. They didn't want to miss their chance at Bonding either.
"Keep your dirty mitts off those eggs, hear?" Psentatiss warned them all, glaring at each human in turn. Vitrem shuddered slightly.
"She scares me," he whispered to his sister, who just smiled and patted him on the head absently, all her attention focused on the eggs that were rocking furiously and ready to hatch at a sneeze.
Her brother sneezed.
Poof! Out hatched a good-sized blue sea dragon, shaking himself all over to get rid of the clinging sand.
The boy wiped at his nose, eyes round as saucers. "Lookit, Vivi!" he squeaked shrilly. "A hatchling sea dragon!" Pointing at the tiny blue, who happened to be the exact sapphire of those wide eyes, he jumped a foot when the dragon turned to him and staggered forward.
 "You bet I'm a sea dragon!" the blue male agreed in a voice almost as squeaky as his. "Call me Seiraliess!"
"How cute," Vivi murmured, watching the pair stagger off together to find some food for the calf. She only tore her eyes away when she felt a bump against her ankles. Glancing downward, she met the bright eyes of another calf, an aqua female.
 "Don't you think for one minute that your brother will Bond and you won't!" the aqua said lightly. "I, Rocinantess, am here!"
Slight tears came to her eyes as she knelt and threw her arms around the hatchling's neck, then shakily rose and led her the way their brothers had gone, presumably the path to food.
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