While Budokai has been away, his students have been tending to the mysterious gray and white mottled egg he brought back from the plains. The geese he bought to sit on it in shifts have had to be kept in stupor to prevent them from pushing it from their nest. At last the long wait paid off, when an orange-eyed reptilian beast emerged from the egg and ate one of it's adoptive mothers. Since then it has consumed a goose a day at the expense of 5 bits.
The Hatchling has a long tail that ends in forked buds. It has not unfurled its wings as yet, but at just 90 days, and excluding it's tail, is already the size of a lapdog. For the first ten days, it had bright pink skin which is now turning gray and leathery. Its teeth are very thin but incredibly sharp. Aside from eating and sleeping it has already shown the uncanny ability to mimic the sounds of conversation it has heard. Male or female, Westrun or Eastrun, the beast is some sort of savant, mimicking vocalizations and often bringing its captors through the door to investigate. When they do, it seems to smile at them with an open mouth and laugh silently.
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