Jay approached the egg cationly. She was about to touch the elves biggest secret; the existence of a fourth egg. This egg was kept secret out of fear that the egg blue egg that got brought back and forth between the elves and dwarfs would get captured. To everyone's horror, the egg had been captured, or at least that's what everyone believed.
Ever since the elves searched beyond their borders when the carrier of the egg didn't show up after not long, they found the slaughtered remains of the three horses and two males who had accompanied the egg.
Now the elves were trying to get the only egg in their clutches to hatch. The egg was of silver in color and was kept with the only living free rider, the elves second greatest secret. It sparkled in the moonlight like a freshly shined diamond.
This being her first time touching the egg was quite weird. It wasn't like she lived in some far off elven city or like she was young. She was actually in the age range that a elf would touch their first egg in the old times, just having turned twenty two a few months earlier.
Jay crept closer. It use to be that many elves would gather to watch young and old take their chance at touching the egg. Now few bothered, having lost hope that the dragon's rider was going to be an elf.
Jay reached out and held the egg at arm's length slowly pulling it against her chest. Now she had to hold it for an hour, another thing that had changed. It use to be that you held it for ten minutes, but it was important that this egg hatched; and so, the longer holding of the egg.
Jay settled down to the ground. Only four elves were present, Oromis, the last free dragon rider, Dathedr, a elf of the Queen's courts, and the only two children in Ellesmera, Alanna and Dusan. The two children always came to the egg holding ceremonies in Ellesmera.
Time ticked on as Jay held the egg. She wasn't confident and had to be dragged here to hold the egg, after all, why would an egg hatch for her when it hadn't for everyone else?
Ten minutes had passed when the egg gave a mighty shake, startling everyone present. Oromis was the first to crouch down next to the egg in Jay's lap. He waited quietly. Another two minutes passed and the egg gave another shake, stronger than the first. The relief on the two adult males' faces was quite great.
"Get up and follow," was all Oromis said as he turned away, walking toward his dragon. Jay quickly got to her feet, the egg still clutched in her arms, and walked cautiously over to him. Oromis then proceeded to climb into the saddle of his dragon, Glaedr, and look expectantly at Jay. She sighed, realizing what he wanted, and climbed clumsily into the saddle behind him. Glaedr launched off from the ground with little to no warning, but luckily, Jay was able to stay in the saddle. They flew for sometime until they arrived to where Oromis lived, a small hut near the edge of a cliff.
The two elves dismounted Glaedr and finally, Oromis turned around and smiled," The egg should hatch within a day or two. I'm glad that we finally found the dragon's rider, and i'm not surprised it turned out to be an elf who was avoiding it." The elf rider turned around," You can stay in the place that was meant for my next apprentice,"
Jay looked over to where an old oak tree stood. She turned back to where Oromis had been to see the door to his hut. Jay then turned to Glaedr was laying and glared at him. Glaedr returned her glare with amusement glinting his eyes. He then closed his eyes.
Jay's shoulder's sagged and she made her way to where the tree was. She found the small door and opened it. She entered a small room. The room only had a bed, a dresser, and a mirror, which relieved her. There was also a doorway that lead to a bathroom. She closed the bathroom door and, for the first time since she picked it up, placed down the egg on her bed. She quickly pulled out some clothes out of the bag on her back. She rolled her eyes at that. She decided that even if she had had nothing with her, they would have made her come right then.
She then pulled on the new clothes, after taking off the old ones. She moved the egg onto a pillow on the dresser. She then laid down on the bed to rest.
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Two days past. Oromis started teaching Jay things about the riders. He started assigning scrolls for her to read and started quizzing her on things, finding out on just how much she did know. He seemed content with how much she knew, and started shoving new knowledge into her head.
Tonight she and him were sitting around a fire. Glaedr slept nearby, his scales turning bronze in the firelight. The silver egg was in Jay's lap. Oromis had told Jay some information about it like that it was female, and that its parents were named Ingothold and Jura.
The egg shook again. It had been doing this for the past two days so Jay had started to see it as a common occurrence. Then it shook again, this time letting out a loud squeak. Glaedr opened one of his eyes and stared at the egg.
Jay placed the egg down, away from the fire. It started to rock back and forth, letting out loud squeaks. A large crack opened up on its side, spidderwebbing across the outside. Then it promptly exploded. Silver egg pieces flew everywhere, leaving a small silver hatchling licking off its wet scales.
Jay watched it curiously. The hatchling soon finished cleaning herself and looked around. She spotted Jay and approached. Jay reached out and rubbed her hand against the hatchlings head. A burning fire shot through her arm making her gasp and shrink away from the dragon. After a little while, the pain faded and Jay looked at her hand. A pale scar had formed on her palm.
The hatchling climbed into Jay's lap and to Jay's relief, no more pain followed. Jay looked up to where Oromis sat. The older elf was smiling. Jay stood shakily to her feet, the hatchling clutched against her chest and walked over to Glaedr. The golden dragon lifted hi head and sniffed the small dragon. The little dragonese gave a curious murmur and sniffed him back.