The day of the Hatching came very quickly. Zhronsha hurried to the Sands. Most of the girls were huddled around the gold egg... But Zhronsha decided that if she was worthy, she wouldn't need to be right there, and stood a little away from the crowd of girls.

A humming grew, softly at first, and then very noticable... and the first egg hatched to reveal a bronze. The next to hatch were a green and a blue, followed by the queen egg. Zhronsha strained to see, immediately wishing she had gotten closer, if not for the view. The queen Impressed a girl, and they left the Sands. Next, three eggs hatched together, revealing a dark brown, a light bronze and a green-gold.

An average-shaded blue appeared next, and clumsy steps took him to crash into the nearest egg, a smallish thing from which average green exploded. She snapped at him in annoyance, and he scuttled quickly torwards a boy, cowering behind his legs. The young man glanced down, and reached a comforting hand torwards him.

"Don't worry, Kezoth. She won't hurt you at all."

The green, however, seemed to have a different opinion of this- she sighted Zhronsha and beelined for the girl, stopping just short and sending up a small cloud of dust.

That's what he thinks! crowed the green with a grin.

"Careful, Niobeth!" Zhronsha cried, laughing. The little green looked up at Zhronsha.

Clumsy male. Brothers have no sense, do they Zhronsha? Zhronsha laughed, thinking of Mahtel and her other eleven siblings at home. They went off towards the kitchens, laughing.