Clanbound Unhatched Auraboa Egg

Dragon Eggs

A tiny Auraboa hatchling grows within. The thick, ropey shell makes it unclear what elemental alignment it has taken.

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"Hello there! May I ask who you are?"


[...]


"Ah, have I met you before? Sorry, my memory fades quickly, please forgive me."


[...]


"Well, I wouldn't say... guardian. Think of me instead as the acting caretaker of this little Bud. The real guardian, she will return soon."


[...?]


"’That garden’? Well…"

"This bud is ‘that garden’, if that's what you're asking, but it’s not really a garden.”

"It’s merely the fragments of a little world, floating on the outskirts of the Behemoth. Its only solid tether to the Branch is the dimensional garden behind the lair."

"Those 'plants' and 'animals' a normal dragon would see are actually dragons themselves, cloaked in dimensional fabric.

"They are both sentient and not at the same time - truthfully, their existence is very hard to quantify."

"Unfortunately, memories don't seem to carry over well through this veil."

"That's why none of the inhabitants ever remember me."


[I'll remember you.]


"Haha, thank you!"

“You have no idea how much that means to me.”


[*You see a familiar sorrow in their eyes.*]

[*But... this is the first time you've been here.*]

[*Right?*]

[...]


"Well, that's all the time we have for today."

"Please take care."


[*...*]


They chuckle quietly as an afterthought and let out a soft sigh.

Above their claws, the glowing, pulsating bud continues to drift delicately in an eternal dance.