"We need to make sure we check on the egg at least a couple of times a day, every day until it hatches" Larek added.

Veax gave Hermia a kiss and went inside, changed, washed up, and lay down on their bed, not quite asleep yet.

"The thing about the big cities is that they never close down, not even at night" she explained as they walked through the wide streets of the city. 

"Yeah. My sisters were encouraged to let it all out. I could never understand some of it, like what a 'good cry' was" Kos said.