Taiji wants to introduce you to the egg which has been sent up to the ship, it is here...
Right now, she knows nothing about the sex, type or color of the dragon within, and is even somewhat unsure of which parents have sired it! There were two clutches there at the time, and only this egg called out to the green little girl.
It turns out to be from Sparks and Marad's clutch, now that it's all settled in!
She hopes very much that with love and tender attention, she will be able to hatch and care for the dragon within.
He's grown! He's hatched! See below!
Taiji invited several of the inhabitants to view her newfound beauty, and even Wisdom the dragon came to admire it.
"It is beautiful," Viridia commented. "Do you think... It will be a special dragon which comes from it? You deserve it, Taiji. All the work you've put into this chamber is beyond what I'd ever imagined!" Viridia looked around at all the greenery and beautiful insects gathered from hundreds of worlds. "I think that I shall like to see who hatches from this egg!"
"And I," Taiji smiled, her girl-like face bright with happiness.
Viridia nodded deeply. "I thought I recognized the name... Marad... He was a clever boy."
"He was Mirage's father!" Taiji scrubbed at an itch that the dragon indicated with a warble of noise. "Clever?"
Viridia laughed.
The green girl sat on her rump and looked at him. The golden scales were so pretty, he glimmered every moment that he moved, and even when he slept -- which was of course quite a lot of the time -- he seemed to flow with color.
"Well, look at him. He's like molten gold..." Taiji looked confused. "But that sounds too much like a beer beverage..." Viridia and she laughed, and the little golden hatchling grumbled loudly, it seemed they were keeping him from sleep.
"Sorry, dearest..." Taiji said, stroking his beautiful snout. "Well, you remember on Zekira, in the deserts of Kiran, where the Three Cities came together?"
"The Ref desert, yes. With dunes that glimmered brightly in the sun."
Taiji looked up with pleasure, "Ref's Glimmer," she announced, "That's his name. Some day we'll find a way to show him why he's named that..."
"Little chicken," Taiji chided him. "You go show him who's boss!" She nudged the little golden hided dragonet and he crooned with worry.
"I do not want to! He makes too much noise!"
"I know you like it quiet, but you need to get some exersize! Go out and play!"
"But it is wet!"
Taiji rolled her eyes and shrugged. "I know it's wet, Ref. It's raining. It's just rain, see?"
"Gets noisy rain," Ref's Glimmer looked up at the cloudy dome's sky. Then, he very nearly vanished into himself, as the peal of lightning came down and shortly echoed around with a rock of thunder. "Not coming out EVER!"
Viridia grinned and left this little problem to her small green assistant. Taiji could always coax the golden dragonet into something new... later.
Or maybe making them. Ref's Glimmer stretched back, and let out a long, warm sigh.
"He is just showing off," Glimmer said. "I will show him later... When I get my wings ready. Then he'll have some competition in the air."
"I remember when you didn't like the thought of going out there," Taiji laughed.
"That was before I was big!"
"You aren't all big, yet!"
"He's up there. I will scare him down now." Ref said, and bolted into the air. He was a strong, quick flier, but he had gotten a bit more impulsive than Taiji liked. Perhaps it would calm down if they ever found a mate for him.
If... Perhaps they wouldn't. The Glenn was shutting down shop, and the dragons as well as their caretakers would be sad to see it go. But they would all be able to come and visit each other anyway.
When Taiji looked up again, she saw a huge bolt of gold streak through the low clouds and then burst out in a bright sun-colored flame. Then abruptly, a downpour of rain struck his golden hide and he came scampering down through the sky, again.
"Still don't like getting wet, I see?" Taiji said, in her best I-told-you-so voice.
Ref's Glimmer only grumbled.
