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Who; Loki (

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What; Once upon a time, Loki and Charis went on an adventure and found an egg.
When; Right now
Where; The abandoned domes, hidden behind a veil

They'd never expected it to hatch, not really. There'd been no telling how long the egg, iridescent blue and clearly magical, had been hidden away from anyone, lost and guarded by the eternal skeletons set to protect it who knew how long ago. As soon as they'd touched the thing, the guardians had attacked, and that meant having to unmake spells quickly. The weave holding them together had proven more intricate than he'd anticipated, and they'd left the sub-basement worse for wear due to all the explosions of power. They'd escaped unscathed, though, and after a bit of deliberation, had decided to hide the egg away, incubate it, and hope for the best.

There'd been no denying the creature was a being of an ancient magic, but other than that, they could determine nothing. Even for all the hunting through the library he'd done, there was no record of an egg of this type, or the creature that grew (hopefully) within. All they could do was wait.

And now, a stirring in the egg pulled his attention from the book he was reading. He shot off a thought in Charis' direction.

The egg stirs. Coming?

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There was a strange amount of excitement in seeing if this egg would actually hatch. Really, she'd never expected it to actually hatch. This entire place worked on the opposite of logic but she still hadn't expected a magic egg to hatch. But there was Loki saying it was actually moving.

On my way. She moved as fast as she could through the Sphere until she got to the location they'd moved the the egg to. She walked in and didn't actually try to hide the look of excitement on her face. They hadn't been able to figure out anything about what might be in the egg so whatever came out would be a complete surprise to them both.

"Think it's actually going to hatch?"

Loki'd never spent any time with animals, and thus the only information he had about the hatching of eggs came from books he's read in the past month, and so he waits with trepidation until she arrives. As the time had passed, his excitement grew, but he remained skeptical, for the both of them he realized when she arrived, though he joined her around their makeshift incubator of technology and magic, doing his best to seem as though he wasn't just as excited as she was.

"Either that or it's in its death throes."

She shoved him gently with her shoulder. "Don't curse it like that." On Khera when she'd lived in the lower quarters she'd encountered birds hatching. Some were used for food and some were just a part of nature. At no point had she ever actually raised something from an egg. Mammals were a different story.

"You're excited too," a smirk accompanied her teasing. Over the course of their exploration and discovery she'd gotten more and more comfortable around him. Somehow they'd both decided really easily that they'd take the egg and bring it back with them. It wasn't even something that they'd needed to discuss. It just seemed to make sense that it was what they'd do. Now here they were and something was actually finally starting to poke through.

His biggest complaint about Charis was her annoying tendency to know exactly what the was feeling. There was no deceiving her, which at first had sorely thrown him. He'd adjusted, the more time they'd spent with one another, or it was more accurate to say he'd gotten more comfortable. He was terrible at discussing his feelings, but with Charis, he'd realized he didn't have to. She simply knew. They could acknowledge it (or not) and simply move on. No need to mulling anything over.

He grinned at her chiding, moving with her shove as though it were harder than it had been. "Only a little-" but his voice caught in his throat as the cracks began appearing across the surface of their little charge and he went still in anticipation. "h-how long does this normally take?"

She shrugged. "No clue," apprehension mixed with the excitement as more cracks appeared. What if this was something foreign to them both? It wasn't a chicken egg or something like that. It felt too void to be something that mundane. There had to actually be something in it. Something different than either of them may have ever encountered. "I don't think it takes long."

He leaned closer as a shimmer of cool, blue light began to shine from one of the growing cracks in the surface of the egg. Magic, and such the likes of which he'd never encountered. It was a bold claim to be sure, magic he'd never seen, and yet here it was, spilling forth from this fractured egg shell, and a pale liquid as well, as the creature within, merely a shadow, shifted as it tried to escape. His breath quickened.

"I've never felt anything like this before." His voice contained wonder, to be sure, but also trepidation. What if they couldn't control it?

"So it's something new for us both." In contrast to his voice there was just excitement in hers. New was a rare thing for someone that had spent more than 3,000 years on one planet.

"I can feel...." she wasn't sure what she could feel actually. Something completely different than anything she'd ever felt before. It was similar almost to Pegasus in some vague way, but maybe that was just the magic. "I don't know. We'll find out soon." Because it was definitely through.

The creature inside made a small, trilling sound as it pushed aside the shell, and the pale light intensified. He leaned forward, breath quickening in anticipation, a slow smile threading across his face.

And then it was free, at least its head, and the source of the light was made apparent by the shimmering motes of light that made up its tiny body.

"...Heavens, it's made of stars..."

She leaned down at it to try to get a better look at the creature coming out. Was that a ....dragon of some kind? A star dragon? She blinked and then looked from it to him.

"I've never seen anything like this. It's beautiful..."

He shook his head and reached out toward the creature tentatively as it trilled again and shook some of its shell free from its head.

"Nor have I, and no mention of it in any text. I have-" he was caught off-guard by the tiny dragon as it tumbled itself free from the rest of its confines and uncoiled itself awkwardly. It wasn't only beautiful, but adorable. The newborn star dragon blinks and looked around, trilling at the both of them.

"...oh. Hello, there."

"It's...cute," she said with a weird smile on her face as she watched Loki look at it. It was hysterical to see him actually looking invested and captivated by this dragon. Not that she could blame him. It was unbelievable beautiful.

"Do you think...girl or boy star dragon?" She reached a hand out to touch it and it rubbed up against her hand.

"I don't know," his voice was quiet, as though he didn't want to disturb the little one. "Does it matter?" And something else occurred to him as well. "Do you sense anything from it?"

She closed her eyes ad tried to concentrate. "Nothing specific except...curiosity? Innocence maybe?" It trilled again and rubbed on her. "Hunger. She's hungry. And a she."

"She...hungry. Yes." At times he was forced to remember she wasn't a telepath. "What might she want to eat?"

"How would I know that?" It's not she could tell them what she wanted to eat. Hecate, what had they gotten themselves into here? It didn't look like either of them had any idea what she actually was. "I'd assume meat. Or stars."

"Such a shame, I seem to be fresh out of stars." He shook his head, chuckling and hoping she was right about the meat. Thankfully, he had some meat back in his dome. He raised a hand and energy shimmered in his palm before coalescing into something he hoped she'd like.

"Come on, little one." He really didn't have the first idea of how to rear an infant...anything.

"Here I was hoping you could conjure some up. But I guess meat will have to do." She smirked at him and then watched as he made some meat just appear. "Useful." At least that meant they didn't have to make their way back out to find food for her now. Something told her that this was a secret best kept between the two of them and she didn't want to draw anymore attention to them than was needed.

Luckily the little creature seemed excited about it and moved towards the food to investigate. "Do you think it can eat it yet? Can't say I know how star dragon anatomy and biology works." What if she couldn't chew it yet? Or what if she actually could already? That'd be a pretty big implication for how she'd grow. "What have we gotten ourselves into?" The little dragon looked up at her and made a trilling sound before going back to the meat investigation. Damn she was cute. This was going to be a disaster.

There was no doubt their little addition would cause them no end of grief, even more so since neither of them knew anything about what she was. Other than hungry, of course, even as she began gleefully eating the bit of meat he'd conjured. Still, he couldn't bring himself to be too worried about it at the moment. Think of all the things they could learn from her, after all.

"Something troublesome, but certainly interesting." He watched her eat hungrily, happy at least that she could eat the meat provided. "What shall we call her?"

"Lets hope she's not too troublesome," she said with a small smile. She looked over at him and then shrugged. "That is a question. I have no idea what to call something like her." It occurred to her right there that she'd never actually had to name anything. Something about that fact made her strangely sad and she couldn't pinpoint why.

She shook her head as if to clear the thoughts out. "Got any suggestions?"

Loki readjusted his sitting position, looking very thoughtful as he watched her excitedly eating her provided meal. She was shimmering brightly, her glow reflecting on the surroundings and he smiled.

"Bjartr. It means 'bright'."

"Bjartr." She repeated the word while looking at the little dragon. "Not a horrible suggestion. Gonna be a pain for anyone to try to pounce though." That actually brought a concern back to the front of her mind. "I think we should continue to keep this between the two of us."

"Are you planning on labeling her rooms here?" Because Loki was solidly against letting anyone know of their discovery for the moment. She...was theirs, in a way, and so small and vulnerable, and if he were the scientists of this place, he would do anything to get his hands on her. "No. No one need know of her...yet."

"Of course not" There was an incredulous tone to her voice and she looked at him with an eyebrow raised. The expression plainly asked if he really thought she was that stupid. "Glad we're on the same page there." She wasn't certain if she'd ever want anyone else to know, but definitely not when she was so young and defenseless.

He nodded, equally satisfied they were in agreement. "I'll set up a glamour. It should dissuade the curious from the area." But it was still apparent he didn't know much about animal husbandry. "Are we agreed on Bjartr?" The little one trilled at his voice, but it was anyone's guess whether she was enjoying the speaking around her or if she approved of the name.

"Always so useful." She smirks but she actually does appreciate that he's capable of protecting their new little friend. "Bjartr it is. I think she may even like it. Or maybe just us. She feels...happy." And it was a comforting and strangely nice feeling to pick up from her.

"Child's play, really," but he was grinning at the ego stroking regardless, that and the knowledge that their new addition seemed happy. Heaven knew what she was, but he would protect her.

"I don't know the first thing about raising a dragon made of stars, you know.'

"That so?" she shook her head but wasn't really surprised by his pride. At this point it's a trait of his she's gotten more than used to.

"Guess we're both about to get some experience in it."

"Indeed," and even if he wanted to, he knew he couldn't mask his excitement from her, even though he remained externally indifferent.

"I wonder what level of intelligence we should expect from her."

"Probably more than a lot of the people here." She flashed a quick smirk at him with the comment.

"There's no way to tell for now I guess." It would be interesting if she did turn out to be intelligent. Could also just make things a lot more complicated for them. "If she turns out too smart we may have problems. Especially trying to keep her away from other people here."

He chuckles at that. Bjarte finished her first meal and trilled before curling up on a soft blanket fragment near where her egg had hatched and he smiled slightly.

"Well. It will be enlightening if nothing else."

"One of us should stay here with her for a bit. We can go back to taking shifts?" She shrugged, not really sure how to work that out. There was no way she was going to be comfortable leaving her alone for a little bit. Not until they knew how intelligent she was and how well she'd do on her own.

He nodded, standing carefully so as not to disturb their new addition. "Agreed. I have work to do if I'm to conceal this place better. I had to hide an egg before. Bjarte is going to require more fail-safes, so I suppose you have first watch."

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