You trip over something and fall flat on your face. As you get back up, you notice a funny-colored egg laying on the ground. You stand there dumbfounded for a moment until you realize that this must be one of the nine rare firelizard eggs that the Weyrwoman and everyone else is upset over.
        You bend over and carefully pick up the colorful egg. Suddenly it begins to rock and you gasp in surprise. You don't have any food with you and the Weyrwoman wanted them found, not found and then lost! The egg suddenly splits open in your hands, revealing a brown and black firelizard that sits in your hands. It suddenly turns it's whirling blue eyes on you and chirps.
        Of a sudden, you feel the firelizards thoughts enter your mind. May you feed me? Please? You stare at it in shock for a moment...it talked! Firelizards weren't known for being able to talk! But even as you think this, you remember that it is a genetically altered firelizard and wonder what else this creature is capable of besides impressing without available food and talking. You hurry to the kitchens and get the strange firelizard some food.