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When Embryo awoke the next morning, she climbed out of bed and stretched her wings. They were feeling much better after a relaxing night's sleep.

She rushed downstairs and found Summit already there waiting for her. The moment he saw her, a huge grin lit his face. He rushed up to her.

"Listen," he said, "I've been thinking. You said you want to see the world, right? So I was thinking maybe you could join me on a flight, and I could show you around some amazing places I know."

Embryo looked into his eyes, and amusement sparked in her. "You've got a big crush on me, don't you?"

Summit blushed, shifting his talons, and looking away. "I know. Love at first sight. It's ridiculous."

"No," replied Embryo gently, "I just think we should get to know each other better before we decide on this 'love' business."

"And do you?" Summit asked, looking up at her.

"Do I what?" Embryo asked.

"Want to get to know each other better?"

Embryo looked at him. "I'd love to."

"So every morning, we fill our table with the most spectacular egg dishes we can prepare, and all share in a grand community breakfast."

Summit tried to suppress a gasp of horror as he almost plummeted out of the sky, and down to the cliffs bellow.

"You mean to tell me, you ACTUALLY EAT YOUR OWN EGGS!"

Summit tried to stop himself from loosing his breakfast, trying not to imagine the partridge eggs he'd eaten were not dragon eggs.

"You mean to tell me you don't eat dragon eggs?" Embryo cried in shock, her entire world being turned inside out.

"No!" Cried Summit, "That's disgusting! You mean to tell me you don't have any problem eating another dragon's..." Summit saw Embryo's face fall, confusion giving way to discouragement. "I mean, for us other tribes, we just don't do that. It just doesn't seem natural to us. Perhaps we're the ones who are doing things abnormally."

There was a long pause of silence, each in their own thoughts. Summit hesitated, but finally his curiosity got the better of him.

"So let me get this straight, does your entire diet consists entirely of your own eggs." Summit tried to process this.

"Oh no, ff course not," Embryo replied, "We can only produce as much protein as what's already within us, and because the males weren't blessed with the gift of egg laying (poor things), we have to balance it out." Embryo paused, "But yes, eggs are our primary focus."

They once again returned to silence, neither of them said anything, but the tension was for the most part gone.

Finally, they emerged from the mountainline, and Embryo gasped. Stretched before them was a meadow, reaching many miles in every direction, covered in flowers of all types and colors, as far as eye could see.

"Here we are," Summit announced, grinning at her expression.

Summit led them in, and they landed within a patch of flowers, bending gently under their weight.

The pollen drifted in the air, and Embryo took in a deep breath.

"It's beautiful," she breathed.

"I know," Summit sighed, "The moment I first met you, I thought of this place."

Embryo looked at him. "You really do have a crush on me."

Summit turned red, if that was even possible with his SkyWing scales.

Embryo looked back up to take in the meadow stretching before her. A strong gust of wind was headed in their direction, pushing through the flowers, rolling over them with great force.

And then it hit, billions of air particles pushing past them, fresh air and pollen being thrown at her in the breeze. Embryo closed her eyes and spread her wings, and took it all in, the air, the flowers, the warmth of the Sun, all existing around her, filling her with life. The wonder of it all was so overwhelming, she began to laugh with joy.

As Summit watched her in awe, that smile on her face, the way she loved to just feel the world around her, his heart began to fill up. It didn't matter that she came from a tribe that ate their own eggs, this was the most beautiful dragon he'd ever met, and more than anything, he wanted to make her happy.