"Can this even hatch?"
David immediately narrowed his eyes in disbelief. He picked out the white Dragon Egg with a crack in it from the others, lifted it, and delicately tapped the eggshell with the tip of his claw.
TING TING.
...CLANG CLANG.
A hesitant response came from within.
TING TING.
David tapped again.
...CLANG CLANG.
It seemed the creature inside the shell was mustering some courage.
But David had lost his patience.
"If you're not dead, then get the hell out! What are you, knocking for your mother in there?"
The muscles under the scales of the Red Dragon's right forelimb bulged, and he delivered a sharp rap to the egg.
CRACK.
A third of the eggshell shattered along the crack and flew off.
Revealing pure eyes that seemed untouched by knowledge, and the utterly bewildered face of the White Hatchling Dragon.
Instinctively, he blurted out his True Name in the Draconic tongue, "Sabuhaxishi Mofei Lashid Zulgifili..."
