"The fact that they breathe fire doesn't bother you at all, of course," Viridia said to Kaazha and the tailed woman laughed.
"Not in the slightest. I think it's time I had something bigger than these little pets to play with."
"They are not pets," warned Viridia.
"I know, that's why I want to see them. I have watched Shuy's and the rest. It's time they got a little new blood in here."
Watching the great black dragon Neres Storm as she thundered overhead, Viridia agreed.
"Now, as to where the dragon will come from... The Glenn has divested, and two lucky worlds got the dragons who needed homes. They're already breeding."
"Two of them? Oh that's good... Spreading out the gene pool." Kaazha said, with a grin. "Where can we head?"
"Keltic is a good place, and its sister unit is Rose Cavern."
"Ah, I like the sound of that one. We can go to both, can't we?" Kaazha was excited.
"We will be. Actually we can drop you off there and send the others interested to Keltic, to keep it even." The old immortal woman smiled at the purple drake who simmered quietly overhead on his ledge. "Jaibar, you just relax. We'll get you a playmate. But they're going to grow much bigger than you."
Jaibar snuffled and stretched his wing as if he did not care. Kaazha knew better, though.
"You're going to love it, little guy. A big dragon like that!" Kaazha pointed to Raindance who skimmed the ceiling of the domed park, and Jaibar chirped happily.
"And they attract their own kind," Kaazha said, "I know. I heard. I'm going to make sure that the egg I get is just right. I don't want to make a mistake."
She began looking around, and saw that her old hatching nest could use a new look. That started her on a journey through the massive ship looking for supplies and people to help her build a new nest.
Soon, it was standing where the old one was, where Jaibar had slept when he was smaller.
"We don't want the wrong personality coming aboard, now do we?" Said Shuy, and rolled his eyes when Neres Storm outside bellowed that she'd heard that remark.
"Of course she did... She hears everything as long as it has to do with her..." Kaazha laughed, and they went to collect the others who would be going to the Rose Caverns.
While they were en route to the planet, Kaazha (along with the others) was busy writing up a list of things to check when there.
"What genders do they come in..."
"Male and female, silly," someone else blurted out.
"Hey, remember the glolal from that one world? It had more like six, don't knock it." Kaazha muttered back. "I hope to get a female... Jaibar doesn't need to know that yet..."
She lined out several spaces on her drawing pad and they read:
"Glenn Dragon from Rose Cavern"
"Gender" ... unknown!
"Name"... unknown!
"Type" ... unknown!
"Color"... unknown!
"Argh! I hate not knowing anything about it!" Kaazha growled, and found that the others were similarly frustrated.
"They'll hatch soon enough. So just be patient." Taiji was one of those who had a beautiful golden Glenn Dragon, and ... oh, that was a silly thought. If Kaazha's dragon were female, they might-- She sighed. It would be a while before they knew what gender it would be, and what kind. And, of course, if they would be interested in each other at all. Unlike that beautiful gold Ref's Glimmer and big nasty black Neres. Of course, Neres really didn't get along with anyone, not even her partner Tresis.
Kaazha sighed and twiddled her pen over the pad, and drew what she imagined the dragon might look like some day...
"Glenn Dragon from Rose Cavern"
"Gender" ... unknown!
"Name"... unknown!
"Type" ... unknown!
"Color"... unknown!
"Parents -- Nightwing and Crystianna"
"That will do it," she said, putting the pen down. "Now... If it will come out healthy and strong that's all I want..."
She looked around. The room was big enough for her, her already-present pouncer Jaibar, and this new dragon. A good air current blew through the room, making it less stuffy. Sweet smells came through on that breeze, because it came straight through the main kitchen hall near the flight dome. Kaazha laughed.
"I bet it'll come out all hungry... Oh! Hungry! What'll it eat?" She scurried off to make sure that she had something ready for the hatching.
Jaibar guarded his mistress' new addition like a pro.
"Glenn Dragon from Rose Cavern"
"Gender" ... Female
"Name"... Jaffs
"Type" ... unknown!
"Color"... Lightning !
"Parents -- Nightwing and Crystianna"
Viridia watched as the catlike woman added an exclamation point to the Color section.
"I wasn't even aware of that color," Viridia commented. Kaazha beamed.
"I know. But here she is. She's a strong little one, too." Jaffs squirmed in Kaazha's arms, and Kaazha was careful not to gore her with her own spined quills. The dragonet puffed angrily and finally Kaazha let her down on the floor.
Jaibar curled up nearby, and Jaffs boldly approached him. She bit his tail, held on to it tightly, and then fell asleep curled under his watchful snout.
"They're going to be great together." Viridia laughed. "I wonder how Sensorium is doing..."
Pleading lilac eyes opened wider, and she shook her head.
"Well then I guess we'll never know what you want." Kaazha said, flippantly and turning around. She was of course hoping to prod the growing dragonet into saying her first real sentances, which wasn't having much success. Until...
"But I really want to go outside into the black outside, where it's dark and black and shiny and cold and --" she took a breath, "because I watch other guys you do it too and you go outside and see us from the inside in the dome and I like the dome because its fun and its big and it rains in there, and Raindance makes it rain even more, and then I want to fly but Ref doesn't like to fly a lot and he likes it when we get new visitors and even though Jaibar wants me to stay inside I want to go outside where it's dark and cold for a while just a little while!"
Stunned, Kaazha twitched her eyebrow up, ignoring the entire content of what her little dragonet had said, and rushed over to hug her.