Breaking from the Shell

Pacis stared at the cloak man for a short few seconds before speaking, as if he were still trying to piece together his words.

"What are you intending to do with us in your research? I somehow doubt you are using us for observational research on dragon habbits. It seems obvious we were not your first batch." Pacis stated, as he stood on his feet remaining in place.

Varek had made his preparations for the night, but the baby dragon felt the need to... stay up late.

He walked outside, and made his way down river to the shoreline as his smoke arose behind him. The shore wasn't close to the cave, but the river was straight enough for it to be in plain view from the river mouth. Varek decided he'd go and see just how many experiments had failed. He entered the water with a loud splash. It was immediately clear he wasn't a great swimmer, so he laid near the surface and gazed down into the lake.

"More then two days...?" Pacis said to himself, as he had not witnessed what the others had.
"But why? I don't understand." Pacis ignorantly asked, feeling as if he needed to know.

Varek felt a need to look closer, unaffected by residual shocks.

He lifted his head up, taking a deep breath before diving to get a closer look at the depths.

Varek immediately surfaced. Nobody but those near the shore would hear his massive gasp.

He immediately walked out of the water and onto the beach. He didn't trust the cloaked man, but would make due for now.

Upon seeing the bolt of lightning, Validus sits upright, stairing off into the distance silently, focused on listening for what may be going on. After a moment, he growls audibly and sprints outside and off the edge of the cliff, spreading his wings the moment he leaves the cliff.

He glides all the way to Saren and lands about 15 feet away, teeth bared and looking around the area she was in for any sign of danger. He stays like this for a few moments before slowly calming down. He approaches her.

"What happened? Are you alright? I saw your lightning and thought you were in trouble..."

Pacis still somewhat did not come to a full understanding, but he learned what he needed to know. And that was all he wanted. He stretched his wings and without saying a word, flew back to the cave leaving the Cloaked man to wander back in on his own.

After a moment of waiting at the edge of the cave for Pacis and the man to finish their private conversation, Nerea concluded that it would be much more productive for her to leave, as she had nothing to add anyway. Her new wings were aching from their bullet-start use after most likely months of formation inside her egg, but it didn't bother her so much as to stop flying altogether.

So, she adamantly flew up in the air, taking a jump start from the edge, and flew in direction to the place she had picked as her nest.

(Most likely the last post for the RP day.)

The cobalt dragon woke up in fear. Something felt wrong. He dashed outside, faster than he thought he could have managed and looked in a pool of water.

He felt many times more energized than yesterday, and was twice as big. Something was terribly wrong, and he knew it. But what could he do? He would ask the cloaked man about it later, but for now it would be a 'let's not leave home till stuff gets sticky' type game. He opened parts of the wall separating the main cavern from the smoke tunnel, quickly moving the butchered and smoked sea snake parts to the farthest in part of the cave, and one of the few parts surrounded by rock walls.

He liked to live near the forest anyway, so taking up space into the cave was hardly a problem. Sharing had left his mind. He couldn't leave the cave. No, what would the others think when he came out twice as large on day 2? He'd be able to live on this snake comfortably for a week.

How could a small, purple dragon become so big as to wake up with her sides pushing uncomfortably at the lush trees she had so comfortably set herself down between, the night before?

In confusion, Nerea wiggled herself free of her own nest and came to the conclusion that she most definitely could not spend the next night there, especially if her next change would be just as gargantuan. While not necessarily looking forward to the prospect of having a larger body, she didn't mind the extra strength. It felt, obviously, empowering.

The purple dragon grinned briefly. She was willing to accept anything by then, especially since the change wasn't bad. She assumed that was what the man had referred to when he had said it was an 'experiment'. She acknowledged it wasn't normal.

But musings aside, she opened her freshly improved wings and flew out of the forest, in direction of where the remains of the serpent were left the day before. She was hungry, after all.

Varek popped his head out of his cave, seeing Smarag swoop by at the carcass far down near the lake. He was big too. Maybe this applied to all of them. He headed out of his cavern and made his way downstream to the lake, eying Smarag and heading in his direction. He felt slightly more comfortable now, but was concerned about someone taking the smoked serpent in his cave. He shouldn't be so greedy, or maybe he should.

"So it's happened to you too." He said in a deeper, more concentrated voice, almost jumping at its sound.