Eldest Brother’s Find
Last night, whilst most of the guests and crew were sleeping, we took the opportunity to explore the ship. Everything was so modern, and complex. gleaming with regular polishings.
The most exciting part of the night, though, was my find, down near the Engine Rooms, I smelled something unfamiliar to the ship, and we followed the scent until we found the source.
In a wee cabin, the floor covered with sand, there were the pieces of a very large egg. It must have been opened with great force for the fragments were scattered over the whole floor, and stuck to the walls and ceiling.
“Look at this Hrrkwyll! It is a claw! I want to know what it came from. I am almost sure it came from a dragon…” She paused as her words put everyone on high alert.
“No need to get all fluffed! Look at the egg, it is stil damp, and the claw is as well. If it is a dragon it only a few hours old, and still mostly harmless.”
“But where is the mother?” Asked Yougest Sister, her eyes wide and staring.
“I doubt that she is here. This room is far too small to hold a full-grown dragon. I think someone aboard this ship has stolen a dragon’s egg. The poor kit, the world is hard enough, without being motherless from birth.”
“Trust Eldest Sister to worry about a baby dragon!! Youngest Brother spoke in proud, but laughing, voice.
All of us hurried back to our rooms, unsure if we wanted to be about whilst a baby dragon was looking for its first meal.
Eldest Sister and I dared a quick trip to the Ship’s Library, and found several good books on dragons to borrow.
As soon as we were in the room where the other three were sleeping Eldest Sister began devouring a book on the identification of dragon species. She read quietly, quickly as I began to look at another book, which offered little in the way of identifiable characteristics.
“I was right!! See, here it is…” Eldest Sister turned the book so I could see it as well. The images of both egg and claw were an obvious match to what we had seen, except for the colour of the eggs. The one we had found looked like burnished gold, and the one in the book was a heady shade of indigo.
“See what it says under the picture of the egg…” Eldest Sister pointed to the small print beneath the image.
‘The egg will match the colour of the gatchling inside, with the most rare being the Golden Queen egg.’
“Later in the paragraph it says that the Golden Egg is only laid in clutches of thirty or more. Now I am sure that someone stole that egg! And what an egg! I wonder if they survived the theft?”
“Does it say whay kind of dragon was in the egg?”
“Yes it does, and that frightens me. “It is the Queen egg of an Imperial 5-Toed Dragon. We must report this to the Captain immediately!!”
I went to rouse the Captain, who followed me to our rooms, and listened to Eldest Sister. I was shocked to see that the Captain knew what we are, and was calm at the sight of us without our Glamourie.
This is the Dragon Claw I found
The Veiled Lady's Cabin 