Tesaldia woke to the sound of birds chirping loudly. She rolled over but could not get back to sleep, so she got up. Tesaldia stretched and looked over at Shai, he was still sleeping. Tesaldia quietly collected some wood and started a fire.

She then snuck off to go find food. She couldn't take it from her parents because they didn't even have enough food for themselves. She would just have to find food somewhere else.

Tesaldia was in town, looking around. Most of the stores were still closed. She snuck around and looked at everything. Then she saw what she wanted. She snuck to the general store and quickly took a frying pan. She put that in her bag then she grabbed some eggs, ham, a few apples and was soon off.

She would have to steal her food and other things until she could fight Vyrdaes. Tesaldia looked at the market, once this was a happy place for her, now it was a dark place of fear, and despair.

Tesaldia got back to the camp without anyone seeing her, she would have to travel very early in the morning and very late at night to get their food, to avoid being caught.

Shai woke up when he smelt the ham and eggs cooking. He looked at the frying pan and licked his lips.

"Oh good, I'm starving, where did you get that stuff anyway?"

"I took it from the farmer's market down the road, I know its stealing but we can't do anything other than steal to survive right now."

"It doesn't matter, when is that going to be done, I'm dying here."

"Calm down, if you want to make breakfast faster then why don't you cook it yourself?"

Shai didn't say anything. He had been a servant in Vyrdaes's Castle for many years but he had never learned how to cook anything properly. He had always burned everything, even the most simple dishes.

Tesaldia finally took the ham off of the frying pan and threw half of it to Shai. Then she put one egg onto her knapsack then handed Shai the frying pan. He took it and practically inhaled his food.

"Shai, you act like you've never seen food before, now slow down."

"Well these last few days we haven't seen food."

Tesaldia shrugged as she ate. The ham and eggs were so delicious her mouth started to water. Then she took out the apples and gave them to Sharaes.

Tesaldia and Shai finished eating before Tesaldia cleaned up the mess and put out the fire. She waved away the smell of food cooking. She didn't want anyone to find them.

"That was probably the best thing I've ever eaten," Shai said as he laid down on the grass.

"Thanks, I learned to cook when I helped my mom around the house."

Shai's eyes were closed. Tesaldia looked at him and then nearly burst out into laughter. She knew what would keep Shai awake.

Tesaldia went over to the lake and got a big ball of water and walked over to Shai. She held it over him for a few moments and then let it drop.

Shai leapt into the air, shocked and freezing cold.

"Tesaldia, what did you do that for," Shai shouted.

"I thought you might need to cool down," she laughed hysterically.

Shai started to chase after Tesaldia. Tesaldia was fast and could turn on a dime. Shai lunged at her but missed. He went running after her and then went flying face first into the lake.

He surfaced and looked around, Tesaldia was laughing.

She stopped laughing, long enough so she could ask Shai what had happened. He groaned and dragged himself out of the lake.

"I don't know what happened, I think I tripped over something."

He went over to the bush and looked through it, then he kneeled down and reached his arms out. Then Shai revealed a bright shining egg.

Tesaldia looked at it and gasped. She came over to Shai and ran her hands over the egg's smooth surface.

"It's beautiful, look at the design, that's amazing."

The egg was a dark blue with large red veins running along the shell. The egg was warm, and there was a faint pulse.

"When do you think it will hatch?"

"I'd say in about a week, just because the pulse isn't very strong."

Tesaldia saw that Shai was excited about having his own egg. His eyes were bright and he didn't seem to notice that he was soaking wet anymore.

"What do you think it is going to be," Tesaldia asked Shai.

"It's impossible to tell before it hatches, unless you know who the parents were."

"Here's a question you can answer, what do you want it to be?"

"I've always wanted a dragon that would be nice, to be able to fly."

Tesaldia looked at the sky, she would probably be scared of falling and would get sick. She had wanted a dragon but now that she had Sharaes, she didn't care about dragons anymore.

Shai held the egg close to him. He wanted it to hatch soon, Tesaldia could tell by the look on his face.

"Can I keep it in your bag Tesaldia?"

"Sure, I won't mind carrying it around."

Shai went over to her bag and slipped the egg carefully inside. He buckled the bag and double checked it, he didn't want anything to happen to his egg. Tesaldia went over to him and picked up the bag and swung it onto her shoulder. The egg was much lighter than the egg Tesaldia had found.

Then Tesaldia had the feeling that the egg would turn out to be something other than a dragon. She looked at Shai, she hoped he wouldn't be too disappointed when his egg hatched.

"Are we ready to go," Shai asked.

"Where are we going?"

"I thought we'd start moving toward Vyrdaes's Castle, then when you're ready to fight him, you won't have to travel all that distance to get to his castle."

Tesaldia just shrugged and Shai started walking and made sure Tesaldia was in his sight the whole time. He was not going to let anything happen to his egg.

He was thinking about the egg. Even if it wasn't a dragon, he would be happy.

Then he started to worry. He would not let this egg have the same fate as the last one he had raised.