She took deep steadying breaths. Maybe it wasn't an egg. Maybe it was just a really big and really shiny rock. That appeared to be the almost perfectly round shape you find in chicken eggs. There was no way around it. Piosenna had found a dragon egg. How it had managed to survive the following battle was a mystery to her. Maybe it was some sort of divine intervention. Either way, she wanted no part of it. Her life was tough enough without that added...Thing.<br/><br/>As she took a step backward, she let out another curse as the egg started to crack. She looked wildly about. A chance to escape. A chance to run away before the dragon inside could fully hatch out and...She was too late as the egg fully split open and out popped the dragon. So to speak.<br/><br/>At the first follow's first words, she cursed again. "I am not your mother." She put her hand up to her head and swept it down her body. "Do I look like a dragon to you?" More curses as she backed up slowly to get away. That had the lovely effect of her tripping over a branch and landing squarely on her butt.<br/><br/>"Today is not my day."