Vivii watched the others carefully as she fawned over her little birds. When the other girl sat down beside her she smiled lightly, "
Name's Vivii, short for Viviana." She nodded at the other girls briefly, wondering why there were so many women and just two men. This could get interesting to say the least. She wasn't much on having friends that were girls do to the way most of the other acted, perhaps these would be different. She really hoped that they would so that she could be friendly for once in her life.
She finished her small portion of food quickly, she'd never been one to eat very much and people usually made rude comments about it. Her mother had called her a little bird her whole life because of her eating habits. She wanted to let her own birds loose but she was afraid they would get snapped up by some of the smaller dragons that zoomed around the complex carrying various items. Just as she stood up the whole room shook with heavy footsteps making her stumble a bit, grasping the back of a chair to ensure she didn't fall. She was not a clumsy person but she was beginning to think that was going to change. Normally people commented on her grace when they weren't bashing her eating habits.
Here though it seemed like she was permanently off balance. She steadied herself, bracing for the rest of the earthquake like footsteps as she moved across the room. "
Ahh, do not wander so much my dear students the workers in the incubation caverns are finally ready for us to make a trip down there!" The booming voice of Dr. Nidhogg engulfed the room as the others had started to dissipate in various directions. Vivii turned to look at the massive dragon, pausing as she regained her orientation. She looped her slender arm through the handle of her bird cage as she turned to look at the others.
Glancing around the room she noticed the grandeur of it for the first time, the moldings were so detailed that she could not believe that they were carved from stone, this whole room was a giant cavern within the side of the mountain. Gold leaf covered many of the items in the room and the designs on the walls, jewels encrusted many things as well. She supposed that the whole thing about dragons collecting treasure was the truth. The whole room screamed opulence and richness.
The good doctor did not wait for anyone apparently as she turned swiftly right around and headed back down the hallway, she jogged after him like a puppy, trying her best not to shake the living day lights out of her tiny finches on her arm. They chirped their displeasure at her angrily from inside the ornate little cage she carried on her arm. Down the corridor she jogged after the doctor and thought keenly about how she was going to be getting her exercise just from following him around. He had obviously slowed his gait considerably to go this slow so it was up to them to fill in the gap between the two speeds. Portraits hung along the walls but she didn't have time to inspect them.
Finally they made a turn, heading downwards in a sloping hallway towards another set of heavy wooden doors that blocked their path currently. The doors opened with an otherworldly groan just before they arrived at them. Just as she got inside the door she stopped short. Nearly falling in her carelessness. The room was filled to the brim with eggs, most of them nearly three feet tall and they were all shapes and colors, some matte while others seemed to nearly glow.