Existence was darkness, existence was nothingness, existence was comforting. If she ever got lonely twin was there, wound around her, just as she was wound around him.

  It could've been years it could've been seconds. She didn't know how long they had been in there but that didn't matter. She felt something flowing into her and like a door unlocking, all that was left was for it to be opened.

  ***

  Domgander sat atop a pile of rotting corpses. The corpses quickly turned from spiders the size of a mortal city block, to a pool of sludge as his acids continued their work, long after the death of the spiders.

  With a flick of his hand, Domgander pulled up his message he had gotten from Naya.

  Apparently she had decided that 600 years was long enough, and had gone ahead and tiered up to tier 29. That mean that she would be hatching a new bond and like always, was recalling everyone for the birth of the new family member.

  If he recalled correctly Huginn was in contact with someone about getting her a void dragon egg. It would be quite interesting to get a dragon sibling and if he recalled correctly Raqas was was trying to evolve into a dragon and having a dragon sibling would be interesting. Besides, Sanfu would be able to help out with the natural problems void beasts and encountered as they quickly tiered it up to tier fifteen.

  Searching through his storage ring, Domgander couldn't find the [Void Siphon] skill he had been sure he had, but figured he could pick one up on his way. He would have a decade before the actual hatching.

  ***

  Huginn ruffle his feathers as he looked at the rift reward in front of his. They had finally found it, a rift capable of dropping the Heaven Rend Seed. An item that would perfectly synergize with her Talent. Now all he needed to do was get lucky. Using his Talent to get rid of the more common items the rift could produce and multiply the chance of getting the seed. Then, Huginn actived his intent and aspect, after all, Huginn didn't get luck, he was luck.

  The rift reward dispelled and an innocuous red and green seed fell out. Huginn felt elation flow through him. It hadn't even been a century and they had already found the seed.

  Turning back to look at Skoll, Hattie and Argite he showed them the seed, a massive smile on his face.

  The three of them stepped out of the rift, excitement still palpable as they got ready to head back to Avalon. Huginn opened up his messages and saw it, a blinking message from Naya. The others quitted down as he read the message aloud to them.

  It seemed that Naya had decided to tier up and was calling everyone back. Interestingly enough, her message said she wouldn't be needing the void dragon egg.

  While it wasn't outright stated in the message, he knew what that, he had been bonded to her long enough to know how her mind worked. If she now had an egg, despite knowing he was working to get one for her, that meant that she had gotten the egg on accident, and that meant it had been a rift drop.

  It was common belief among beasts, especially bonded beasts that a bond egg was dropped for the one it was destined to be with. This was something believed in, something his siblings believed in and something Naya believed in.

  It would also explain why there would only be a decade before the hatching. She wouldn't want it to have to wait in its egg for much longer than necessary.

  ***

  Kai walked into the third eye trading company. Rolling his eyes at all of the decorations that had been set out. He was a Pistol Punch Shrimp and preferred either plain and simple, or the more comfortable homy feel that Naya aimed for.

  Knocking on the door for the acting manager, much to the disapproval of many onlooking workers, he enter, not even waiting for a response.

  "Hey, Cirde. Have you gotten transport settled yet, or do you plan on waiting a bit longer. Also, do you know if Syan and Dezu are around. I would love To get some more fabric from Syan and Dezu owns me a meal.

  Cirde rolled his eyes. "Yeah they are hear. Dezu will probably be able to cook something for you but I doubt that you'll get anything out of Syan. Not only is she backed up on orders for her silk, she is prioritizing making something for the soon to be hatchling."

  Kai shrugged. "Eh, not surprised but its always worth asking."

  ***

  Cirvys flipped the bottle over his shoulder. As it was mid air, He activated his bloodline. Hoping between the surface memories of his fellow bonds, he gathered up enough of their memories to activate his Talent. Gathering the memories of each of their birth and combining them with his own.

  Infusing the memory cock tail into the actual cocktail and serving it to them. Picking up the cocktail Cirvys began sipping on it.

  Closing his eyes, Cirvys experienced his own birth and a watered down version of the birth of Ebor and Sanfu.

  It was a strange thing experiencing someone else's memories but it was something he had come to enjoy. There was just something about seeing things from another perspective and being able to live life in their shoes that he relished.

  Setting the drink down Cirvys turned to look at Sanfu.

  "So, did you manage to learn anything about what kind of egg Naya get her hands on?"

  Sanfu shook her head. "No, I don't think anyone has been able to figure out what it is. Well except for Theo, Decessus, Irin, Zrogo, and Aeris since they were there. Everyone has been trying to find out what it is but she's keeping it hidden and playing with anyone that tries to find out."

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  Cirvys nodded. "That's kinda what I thought but was hoping you might have learned something."

  ***

  Naya gathered everyone around her. Most were in their human forms since their beast form were larger. A couple such as Dezu and Aarin were in their beast forms since they were on the smaller side.

  Despite everyone being in the smallest for they possessed the living room large felt stuffed to bursting due to everyone being as close to each other as they could manage. That was despite the room being big enough that Zrogo in his hydra beast form would of had plenty of room to move about. The reason for this was simple, no one wanted to be left out of the hatching of a new sibling.

  "I know you have all been wonder just what kind of egg I picked up and why I'm not hatching the void dragon egg Huginn and Cirde spent so long getting." With a flourish, Naya brought out a deep blue egg and set it down in front of everyone. "During our last delve we found this egg in its rift reward. I put some essence into the egg earlier today so it should be hatching some time in the next couple days."

  "What kind of egg is it?" Aarin asked, she currently sat on Hattie's shoulder, her small green, flower cover fox fur a stark match against the large wolf mans own black hair and fur.

  Naya smiled teasingly at everyone. "Your just gonna have to wait until the egg hatches."

  Everyone could feel through their bond that Naya was enjoying teasing them and was hamming it up to mess with them.

  Etamar cocked his head to the side, his mane burning with golden fire. "Based off of the deep sapphire blue and the wave patterns its probably a water based bond."

  Etzua nodded his head, his tentacles lazily drifting through the air around him. "Agreed, though it might be an ocean or blackwater bond even if that is unlikely."

  Raqas stepped forward, the swirling cosmic purple, black and dark blue of his scales glinting. "The egg looks like it has a scale pattern, do you think it might be a lizard or a snake like Domgander?" He asked.

  Domgander stepped forward, the sickly green scales on his face and around his eyes seeming to drink in the light and warmth around him. Crouching down next to the egg he ran his hand over to before nodding. "Those two or some kind of dragon, though the size, shape and pattern look more serpentine than lizard so lizard and dragon are unlikely."

  The conformation of a likely serpentine beast from the highest rank and eldest sibling got everyone talking amongst themselves about what it could be. It was Zalziia that asked the next question.

  Zalziia stepped forward in her small kitten form, lightning crackling through her storm gray fur. "Do you know what the egg is?" She asked.

  Naya smirked. "Of course I know what is going to hatch I had to get supplies for when the new beast comes into the world." She glared at where Sanfu and Cirvys were muttering to each other. "And no peaking at my memories Cirvys." The two rabbits shrank back and whistling as they acted innocent. Naya turned and glared at Hato. "And you should get off your [AI]. You know better than to try and look up what kind of egg this is."

  Hato shrinked in on himself, reminiscent of the turtle he is.

  Hours passed as everyone talked amongst themselves joking and just generally having fun. At one point, Dezu went into the connected kitchen and started making food for everyone to snack on. Eventually Cirvys joined him in the kitchen, making drinks, both alcoholic and non alcoholic for everyone to enjoy.

  Days passed in one long wait, filled with games, talk, and every just having fun. At one point they managed to get Huginn drunk enough to start betting some of the treasures he had been hoarding but was quickly stopped Cirde.

  It wasn't until the third day that the egg hatched.

  "DOWN!"

  "DOWN!"

  "DOWN!"

  Everyone chanted as they competed to see who could fit Sanfu further down their.

  Zrogo tilted his head back further as the bulge in his neck move from the half way point to the three quarters point. His other thirteen heads gathered around the main head, each one chanting along with everyone else.

  As the bulge reached the three quarters mark, Zrogo began to gag as he wasn't unable to prevent himself from gagging any more. Reestablishing control over his biological functions and stopping himself from gagging, Zrogo waited until Daras had gotten the measurement.

  Daras knocked on the bulge and a moment later a small rabbit girl with black hair and equally black rabbit ears, covered in saliva appeared next to them. With an over the top wave and a cast of [Cleanse] she was perfectly clean. Holding out her paw, a T30 man stone was set into it, her earning with following through on the beg.

  "So, what were the final numbers." Argit asked. At his words everyone turned at looked at him. "What, I want to know if I beast Zrogo."

  "Your an eagle, he's a hydra, his neck is like ten times as long as yours." Sanfu said while tossing her new mana stone in the air. "Of course you didn't beat him."

  "How do you know that, I'm pretty large in my beast form I might have beat him." Sanfu just looked at him. "What? I might have."

  "I was the one going down your necks, of course I know who won." Sanfu said while giving him and insulted look. "Just tell him by how much he lost." Sanfu said while waving her had at Daras.

  "Yeah, Argit lost by 25 feet." Daras said while holding back his laugh. Everyone else wasn't as nice and all burst out laughing.

  Argit's shoulders and feathers dropped. "Well it was worth a shot. Hey Theo, do you want to-" Argit was cut off by Irin.

  "I'm not going to heal you when that goes wrong Argit." Irin shouted at him from the other side of the room.

  "I wasn't going to nee-"

  "Yes you were." Irin shouted back, cutting him off before he could finish his sentence.

  Argit let out a sigh and walked over to Cirvys to get a drink.

  "Just give me something." Argit said with good natured disgruntlement.

  Cirvys cracked a smile while getting him a bottle of booze. Before he was able to start drinking he felt it. Everyone felt it.

  A sudden jolt reverberated through Naya's spirit and everyone could feel it.

  Within moment everyone's shenanigans had come to a halt, drinks had been set down and everyone was gathered around the shaking egg.

  Five minutes later, a crack spread across the egg. Pieces of the shell fell to the ground and a head poked its way out.

  The head was serpentine, with fins running down the its back and dark blue scales. Its eyes were swirling it looked around at everyone before its eyes locked in on something. The serpent started slithering over the table and towards a steak that Theo had left on the table.

  Naya reached out and carefully picked up the small serpent. Picking up a small piece of the shell, she gave him the shell to snack on while Dezu cook up a small piece of meat that he would be able to eat.

  ***

  The eternal darkness gave way to light as cracks spread through the darkness around them. Twin force the cracks wider open. Twin slithered out of the egg.

  She was over whelmed by hunger and a flood of emotions coming from sources outside of her.

  Closing off the link through which the emotions flowed. She began eating the egg, intent on filling her stomach.

  Opening up her mouth and crunching down on a piece of the shell she could hear something happening outside of the egg. Ignoring it she continued eat the egg. Slithering up the shell, she took anther bite out of the shell.

  She felt it when bond reached down and picked her up. Curling around bonds finger she set her head on bonds hand and looked up into bonds shimmering golden eyes.

  "Hello little girl, your name is Talia." Holding up twin she spoke again. "And you handsome guy are Tyan."