Friday Creature Feature~Behir

Nothing lies below the long expanse of Cliffside that stretches before me, yet I cannot help but look again. Bright sunlight bathes the green valley below, beckoning to me. It would feel so good to warm my scales in its yellow brilliance. Something moves beneath my tail. Whipping my thirty eight foot long, serpentine body around, I dive back into the cave. All four of my eggs lay as still as green jewels. Maybe I imagined it. To be sure, I wrap my body around them, touching each gingerly with one of my dozen legs.

After a long moment, the largest of the eggs wobbles in my claws. I lower my head next to it, running one of my horns over it. A pecking noise followed by vibrations travels through the highly sensitive nerves along my horn. Two more of the eggs start to quiver. I draw back to watch.

A long crack stretches down the side of the first egg and a small nose pokes through. After a few more good shakes the entire egg splits in two and my first born emerges, his red tongue flicking out to taste the air for the first time. Behind me rocks tumbled as something scuttles into the cave mouth. Baring my fangs, I turn back prepared to fight, but it’s only my mate. He sidles up beside me and together we watch as our young come into the world.

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