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Falon pushes the thick, round glasses up his nose and delivers another strike to the object before him. Sparks flew into his eyes, and after inspecting it he decided it was finished. The piece was the casing to a padlock, the mechanism for which he had cast and died tthe day previous. He screws the casing on and presses a button, causing a red light to show indicating it was ready to receive it's owners voice as key. He pushes the glasses up his nose again and removes his gloves, revealing his watch. He was late.

He was red,sweating and burning when he arrived ready to take the egg. Without listening to a word from the elders he excitedly runs to the eggs. There was a black egg with white veins. A shadow egg. He was deathly afraid of the shadow dragons and deeply feared having to raise one. He excitedly eyes a white egg and feels it is the right one. With one step he would trip and topple the black egg. He lands on his face and feels a thud as the egg falls safely to his back. "Well, that seems like fate if I'd ever known it." an elder says. And so here he was with this abomination. A large, slow, menacing shadow dragon.

He was leaving, and avoiding looking at the egg. He wished for it to never hatch, but someone must have wished to spite him, because at that very moment the egg would chip, a small fragment being pushed out from the inside. He rushes home and locks the still hatching egg in his closet.