The last few days had been quite a change for one young Candidate. Since coming to the Weyr, she had spent as much time as humanly possible not being in the Barracks. There were things to see, people to meet, situations to experience! Everything about this place had been brand new. But one of those new experiences, involving Firelizards and her dog trying to herd them to who knows where, had led to another and after a fantastic conversation with one of her new best friends, G'er had agreed to take her to Fort Hold to purchase a Firelizard egg of her very own! She had successfully talked herself out of trying to befriend one of the wild ones. They were too flighty and didn't honestly seem all that eager to leave their little swarm. Either way, Leeta had been shown the way to acquire one of her very own.
So it was that she had returned from Fort Hold the new proud owner of a beautiful fairly large Firelizard egg. Oh this was so exciting! The light pattern and coloring across the egg was quite appealing to her and had seemed to call her name when she had been choosing from the selection that the Egg salesman had shown her. Not a day went by that she didn't check on and tend to her egg. She kept it wrapped up and warmed to the best of her ability, checking on it many times a day, sitting with it, singing to it, talking to it... Heck it was likely she was driving her poor roommate batty. Then again perhaps not. Spin was an incredible roommate and she liked her very much. She did hope she felt the same. Lately, however, Leeta had been entirely focused upon the egg. She wasn't the only one either. There were a number of times that Leeta had walked into her room and found her crazy Telukah curled up asleep around the egg. It was clear that she wasn't the only one excited for the addition to their little family.
One afternoon, Leeta was tidying up her side of the room humming softly to herself when she heard something shift. Her eyes snapped up to look around. Did something get into her room when she wasn't looking? That's ok, Telukah would get it if it were some vermin or some such. But another similar shift was heard and her breath hitched as she looked to the little nest she had made for the egg. Another shake confirmed her thoughts and she gasped. "It's hatching... YES!
EVERYONE COME! IT'S HATCHING NOW! COME SEE!" Ok so Flitters might not be the hugest excitement for everyone in the Weyr to know about, but this was most certainly one of the biggest things to Leeta right now and anyone who had spent any time around her the last couple days would likely have been told about the egg, seen the egg, heard all about her theories and hopes of what was coming out of the egg... But either way, it wasn't difficult to discern what Leeta was loosing her mind about this time.