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[deepstar]

Type: Video
Sender ID: Khalid | deepstar
To: General
Subject: Hatching Time
Warnings: None

[ Initially, only Claude's face appears on the feed, alongside is wyvern. She is resting her chin on his shoulder and that hand of his is giving her a pat pat pat. So much patting. ]

I'm sure you all remember me talking about this several moons ago, but hey! The time finally came. I was starting to get a little worried, considering I have no clue what the incubation time for wyvern eggs are here. Everything went smoothly though, I promise. They actually hatched a few days ago, but I wanted to give them some time.

[ Now the video feed shifts, away from Khalid and Azita, and onto the little baby wyverns. Special guest star Leona is also present, already holding a small lizard in his arms. Seems like it's already attached. There's another one, in Claude's arm. ]

Leona and I are going to be co-parenting these kids for a little while so -

[ Unfortunately, Claude gets cut off. With Leona shoving the man's face, ears folded back. ]

Don't say it like that.

[ Too bad Khalid is unbothered, catching Leona's hand and winking. ]

Sorry, gorgeous. I meant co-parenting the hatchlings. [ Another laugh and moving right along. He's looking at the camera once more, ignoring the grumbling from behind him. ] As you all can probably tell, one little one is spoken for. I don't know about this one, so we'll just have to wait and see.

Ironic that they'd hatch while we're having issues with wild wyverns.

Comments

[octoblot]

Oh no, not at all. I may be able to sing, and certainly I'd like to think that my quality of singing can be soothing depending on the song... but that kind of hypnotism you're thinking of? That's not really my thing.

[deepstar]

I don't know. That's usually the tale that sailors speak of involving certain things that come from the sea. So I figure I'd ask you instead of assume when you say that. Makes more sense that way.

[octoblot]

[Azul's not saying it can't be done, but it would require a mer that not only has the magical aptitude for it, but was born with magic capable of giving their voice a hypnotic quality. Or one that can cast a complex spell or brew an intricate potion to temporarily give themselves that kind of singing ability, which Azul can do if he wanted to... but he isn't going to mention that.]

To be fair, it is a convenient tale to tell when trying to keep those sailors from intruding on the territories of far more dangerous denizens of the sea with their ships... not that it ever seems to really stop them, given the amount of sunken ships that can be found at the bottom of the ocean once in a while.

[deepstar]

You know... I was going to say that it's just a myth where I come from anyway. Sirens and merfolk don't actually exist.

And yet I'm pretty hesitant to actually day that.

[octoblot]

Really? Interesting...

[Azul thinks he can remember the Ramshackle prefect saying that merfolk did not exist in their own world either before they ended up in Twisted Wonderland. Just myths about them... it seems that distinction is a lot more common than he had thought.]

[deepstar]

Interesting in what sense?

[octoblot]

Hearing people say that mermaids don't exist in their own world... you're not the first person to have told me that. I must admit, I wasn't actually expecting for mermaids to be considered that rare among some individuals, given the fact they exist here, and in my own world of course. It's interesting, and a little surreal, I suppose...

[deepstar]

Imagine me hearing that about wyverns. They're standard where I come from and yet so many places don't have them.