No lesson would be complete without an appearance from what could only be dubbed the new golden trio, a friendship that had blossomed for almost 5 years now and looked like it was going nowhere. It didn’t really need questioning that Aurora would be more than happy for the sharing of responsibilities, she felt that she worked better with her peers anyway. Whether the Professors agreed with the sentiment was another question entirely but that was besides the point. “Of course!” she beamed at Anna bouncing over to eenie meenie miney mo over the eggs, picking up whichever one that her sing-song had landed on. “Three parents are better than one.” Well she assumed so, she didn’t have any experience of having more than her two.

Back to Solly’s question now that the different dragons had been explained further. “I don’t think I have a preference but I don’t think I’d be very good with one of the BIG big Dragons. So maybe an Opaleye, I like shiny things. But I also like the idea of singing to my egg so maybe I’ll just do BOTH and then whatever hatches will be a surprise!” And she sure did love surprises. Happy surprises. Not the shocking life changing ones so much.

Did Aurora have any questions? Well yes, Aurora had MANY questions but that didn’t mean they were necessarily relevant to the lesson but rather questions about life in general. Besides, Anna had her all covered on the question front although her mistake on the pronunciation of incubation had her thinking of cucumbers which swiftly moved on to Kappa’s and suddenly she had become all confused about the subject of the lesson but leaving her with even more questions like ‘why did cucumbers appease the Kappas?’ and ‘did other similar vegetables like courgettes work too?’

“OH! Don’t Mumma dragons use their hot fiery breath on their eggs to keep them warm? So maybe we’ll have to constantly breathe on them too” she bounced off her bestie’s questions with a (n admittedly rather ridiculous) suggestion of her own. “Will we have to bring our eggs with us everywhere? Just if we don’t know exactly when our eggs will hatch they might do so when we aren’t there and then our poor baby dragon will be on their own. So I suppose the other option is to take our eggs with us to lessons, only it might be a bit distracting when we are supposed to be learning other things and the other Professors might get a little annoyed if we concentrate on the dragon and not on what they are teaching.” Nevermind that this wasn’t even a real dragon but she was invested now and the guilt she’d feel that her dragon was left to enter this world by itself was overwhelming!