Over the next month, I slowly started to lose more and more control over my form. After being pregnant for two months, most of my skin had turned to scales, I grew horns, my tail was out, and my wings were starting to come out my back, so I had to sleep on my front. When I woke up in the morning, I looked around to Terry's side of the bed. He was still there, watching me sleep. I smiled at him, "How long have you been watching me sleep, weirdo..." "What's weird about waking up before my wife and watching her cute face while she's still asleep for a minute?" "Don't call me cute. I'm covered in scales." "Would it make you feel better if I turned my skin into scales as well?" "You don't need to do that, but I appreciate the offer." "Personally, I think you look cuter when your horns are out." "Enjoy my face while you can, any day now, I won't be able to stay in my human form, and I'll be stuck in my full form for the next month." "Your full form is just as cute. I can even spend s
As Terry comforted me, I passed out from exhaustion. After I passed out, Terry made sure the blanket covering me was secure as he picked me up and carried me out of the incubation room and down the hall to our room. As we walked down the hall, we ran into Jill. When she saw us, she was surprised to see me in human form, "Sir Terry, has miss Sasha finally laid the egg?" Hearing her question reminded Terry of the fact that there could be something wrong with the egg as he looked at her concerned, "Yes, she did. She's currently just passed out from exhaustion." "Would you like me to watch the egg for you?" "No! I'm going to put Sash down and go back and check on it myself. You can go back to bed. It's still late in the night." After Terry said that, he continued to our room to put me down. As he did, Jill went to the incubation room and looked inside at the egg before she continued back to the servant's rooms. When I woke up the next day, I was still out of it from last night, "Wher
Late in the evening, I woke up to find myself alone in my bed, 'I told Terry he wasn't allowed to leave until I said he could...' I sat up in my bed and looked around to see if Terry was still in the room, "He even left the room..." I went to get out of bed, although I still felt exhausted. Even though I was still physically and mentally exhausted, I climbed out of bed and headed down the hall to the incubation room. When I entered the room, I saw Crimson sitting on Terry's seat next to the pedestal, "Mom?" The moment Crimson heard me, she got out of her seat as she looked over at me, "Sash!" Crimson rushed over to me and hugged me, "I'm so happy to see you! But what are you doing out of bed? You should be resting right now." "I had to come and see my egg. And when I woke up, Terry wasn't there." "I know how you feel. When I had you and your brothers, your Father had to make me leave the incubation room." As Crimson and I talked, I walked over to the pedestal and rested my hand
Over the next week, Terry kept visiting the library, looking for any helpful books, shelf by shelf. Finally, as Terry finished searching the left bookshelf, a man came up to him, "I've noticed you coming here for the past week. Are you looking for something specific?" Terry looked at the man. He had lime eyes and normal brown hair, wearing common clothes, "I'm afraid that's rather personal." "Please, allow me to help. I'm rather knowledgeable. I may be able to help you find what you're looking for." Terry thought it over for a minute before he asked, "Have you ever heard of an egg being born with an odd-coloured shell?" "I have, actually. I believe it was in a village outside the capital. I heard a rumour that a woman there gave birth to a black-coloured egg." Terry's eyes grew wide as he dropped the book in his hand and walked over to the man, "Which village was this?" "I believe it was the Simoa village." "Thank you!" After the man told Terry the village name, Terry rushed ou
Terry walked me into the living room and put me on the settee. Seeing that I couldn't stop crying, Terry crouched in front of me and held my hand, "Sash, we'll get our child back, I promise you. But right now, I need you to stay here. I'm going to call the guard. While they're on their way here, I'm going to go to the incubation room and see if they left anything behind we can use to find them." I was too emotional to talk at this point, so Terry reached into his pocket, gave me his handkerchief and then got to his feet, "I'll be back soon..." Terry then left me to calm down in the living room while he went upstairs to the incubation room. He looked around the room and couldn't find anything, only some scratches on the floor from where they had placed something heavy down, "Looks like I was right. They were smart enough to bring a transport box for the egg to keep it warm." He then went out of the room and checked on the guards. Unfortunately, they were all severely knocked out and
The next day, Terry called Dan, "I need you to come to the estate today." "I'm a bit busy with work today. I can come down tomorrow evening if that's fine with you." "I'm sorry, but we need you to come down today. It's an emergency." Dan started to get a bad feeling, "What's happened?" "Late in the evening yesterday, our estate was attacked, and our egg was kidnapped. Not being able to deal with it, Sash's shut down and hasn't said a word since yesterday." "I'll be there as fast as I can." After a while, Dan arrived at the estate, and Terry escorted him to our bedroom as he told him, "Like I told you, she's completely shut down and unresponsive." "If I'm being perfectly honest, I can't blame her. I wouldn't take it well if my children were kidnapped." When they entered the room, Dan walked over to me and started to check my state, "Sash, can you hear me?" I didn't respond or open my eyes. After Dan finished examining me, he said to Terry, "She's in shock. She could wake up tom
Terry and I spent the next month working together, combing through everything we could find on the three noble families we were looking into, but we couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. While Terry and I were looking through documents in his office, I finished reading the one I had and threw it on the desk, "Nothing! I can't find a single thing that can help us!" "Sash, please, we'll find something. It'll just take time." "Terry, it's been nearly two months since our egg was taken from us. I want to get it back." "I do too, but we have time. The child won't hatch for nearly five years. So we have all that time to search." "From what I've seen, we're not even close. It's obvious after looking through all this these families didn't do it!" "Then we start again and look for something else to help us." "And how long will that take? I don't want to leave our child's life up to some ruthless bastards who stole it!" "What do you suggest we do then? We've been doing all we can.
While we were still in Walter's office, I asked him, "Can we cast disguise spells on ourselves before we go to the masquerade?" "Spells like that will be broken the moment you walk into the castle. You'll have to wear a wig to hide your hair, but I'm not sure how we'll hide your eyes. Terry doesn't need to change his since magenta eyes are still relatively common among nobles, but pink eyes are rare enough that dragons will know any noble with them." "I can just change the colour of my eyes." "That won't work. Like I told you, spells like that will be broken when you walk into the castle." "Dad, I can change the colour of my eyes through my own will." Walter looked at me, confused, "What?" I leaned in towards Walter as I slowly changed my eye colour to grey, "I can change my eyes to resemble that of any natural dragon eye colour." "And this isn't a spell?" "No, it's one of a pink eye dragon's abilities, but it's apparently kept secret." "I can understand why. An ability like