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Seferia continued to grasp onto shards of shell , piling most of them into the larger segments. Luckily, her human skin was much stronger and more difficult to break than a real human hide. For, the shell fragments were sharp and would have likely tore up her hand if she were a mere human.
When Sephiroth spoke, she glanced up at him before chuckling. Shaking her head, she nodded toward the female.
“You are welcome to move her yourself, Sephiroth. However, I had intended to leave a sleeping spot for ourselves,” a small wry grin graced her lips as she responded to him. She then turned around to continue gathering the segments of shell. “Hmm… I have heard that humans are sentimental. Did you want to keep these?”
As Sephiroth picked up the female, he turned his attention toward Seferia when she had asked the question. He hadn’t expected Seferia to make such a suggestion at all and slowly nodded as he set the girl down.
“I’d keep them….” He said slowly. “Will they break? Are they fragile?”
Seferia shook her head to Sephiroth’s questions. As she walked over to set the empty egg shells on a shelf, she calmly responded, “No, they are thick and difficult to break. So, you do not need to treat them like fine china. However, do be careful if you pick them up. The edges are sharp.”
After setting the eggs down, she gathered up the mat which had been used as a nest during the last few months. Soon after, she exited the house so that she could shake out the mat.
Meanwhile, the female yawned as Sephiroth picked her up. Chirping with confusion, she looked up at her father with wide eyes. Unlike her brother, her eyes were the same color as her father’s. And thanks to the inherent magic of dragons, they had a glow of their own similar to her father’s.
Once she was set down, she glanced around the area before she shuffled over to her brother’s side. She then rumbled before she curled up against his side.
The male immediately responded to the company of his clutch-mate with a rumble of his own. When she came and curled up against him, he unfurled his nearer wing, moving it over her before he closed his eyes and went back to sleep.
Sephiroth watched on, finding it very curious that two siblings could be so physically different. Maybe they would even out as they grew. Who knew.
Seferia returned with the recently shaken out mattress pad. Feeling safe in the knowledge that there were no more egg shards on the mat, she moved to the spot where the hatchlings were sleeping. She then bent down to set up the other mat, figuring that they might as well keep their sleeping spots in the same area. Once everything was set up, she straightened up to look at Sephiroth.
“Do you approve?” She nodded to the mattress as she spoke this.
Sephiroth nodded as Seferia brought the mattress back in.
“I approve.” He replied, though he didn’t get up from his stool. In truth he was still feeling dirty and wanted to take a bath. His priorities had shifted when the eggs hatched, however, now that the babies were out, his thoughts had returned to the thoughts of getting clean.
Seferia gave Sephiroth a small grin before she walked over to him. Once at his side, the incognito dragon leaned over to poke his shoulder.
“Good, now get clean. You smell of dirt, sweat, and more dirt,” while her voice remained stoic, her metal landscape was colored with jovial humor. She prodded him once more before continuing on. “Also, do not bother to put any clothes on when you’re done. I wish to be pleasured by that wing of yours again.”
Seferia momentarily wondered if it was unfair to humans that she could voice jokes and playfulness in a way that sounded completely serious. However, she did not care enough to follow that line of thought for long. Instead, she moved over to sit down on the recently cleaned off mattress so that she could relax while she waited for Sephiroth to clean off.
Sephiroth visibly shivered as Seferia told him to leave his clothing off. He gathered up his bathing supplies and headed for the stone tub, stripping down so he could properly wash himself off, grinning. Seferia’s stoic face and sense of humor amused him, but he knew for a fact that it would be unnerving to others.
The male hatchling wiggled around, rolling off his sister. He cracked his eyes open and begin to cry again, pangs of hunger bothering his stomach.
The female hatchling whined as her brother ruined her restful moment with hise noise. Rumbling with discontent, she shifted about for a moment before she joined in crying with her brother. As she wailed, she puffed out her currently over-sized and downy wings in an almost comical manner.
Seferia sighed at the sound of the wails. She had not eaten recently, so she had nothing that she could gag up for her hatchlings. So, she stood up and walked over to the food storage bin. Soon enough, she grabbed a slab of raw steak before she began to pulverize it with the tools that Sephiroth used for grains. Once she felt that the steak was tenderized enough, she set it down before her two hatchlings.
The female went silent nearly immediately as she smelled the steak. Sniffing the air a few times, she shuffled over to the offered food before she moved in to take a bite.
The male’s eyes were wide and bright now. He made loud snorting noises when he smelled the steak and promptly stumbled over towards it, falling over at least twice in his mad dash towards the food. It would seem that he hadn’t quite gotten control over his limbs just yet. Once close enough he grabbed a mouthful of the mushed meat and began hungrily wolfing it down.
Seferia straightened up as she watched her hatchlings eat. Shaking her head, she grinned with a wicked sense of humor. With the grin still in place, she tilted her head to look at Sephiroth before examining him over.
“Hmm… I cannot tell,” as she commented, she returned her attention to her male hatchling. “Yes, it is indeed hard to tell which one of you eats food with more vigor. It is amazing that you two can even breath or swallow with the speed that you make food vanish.”
Sephiroth shrugged his shoulders as he washed his hair off. He was more interested in getting clean quickly and getting out again as fast as possible. He was somebody who worked off efficiency afterall.
“Does it matter?” He asked, dipping his head back to wash soap out of his hair. “Food is food. Eat it and be done with it.”
He began washing off his hands and torso after he finished with his hair.
Seferia snorted before rumbling in humor at Sephiroth’s response. Shaking her head, the dragon tilted her head to watch him for a few moments.
Finally, she calmly replied, “You cannot deny that each time that you eat, you eat as if you had been starved for an entire month. Sometimes I wonder where you manage to put all the food you eat when ample supplies are available.”
A predatory grin graced her lips before she moved to stand behind Sephiroth. As soon as she was in position, the black dragon gently slide her right index finger against the length of his spine.
Sephiroth jumped, startled as Seferia touched his spine. He was already naked and feeling rather vulnerable, but when he was touched, he instinctively huddled forwards as if to cover and protect himself. He only relaxed again after another moment passed, lightly sighing in discomfort.
“I have a high metabolism,” He offered. “Is that a bad thing?”
He crouched forwards and went to work on cleaning his legs.
Humming in thought, Seferia continued to stroke her mate’s back. She then shrugged before she spoke out the conclusion that she had come to, “Oh, I am not making these statements as a sign of anything being “bad”. Not at all.”
She shook her head before continuing, “No, I just find it rather fascinating that you can eat so much. It’s just a small quirk that I did not expect from you. Especially since you seem so restrained and refined in most cases.”
“I’m not THAT bad, surely…” Sephiroth mumbled. “I get hungry, I eat. It’s over and done with.”
He finished washing his legs off, frowning at her. Then he subtly turned away so he could work on washing off his private area, using his body and torso as a kind of shield to hide himself from Seferia. Despite the fact they were a mated pair, he still felt there was some need for privacy in doing certain things like this.
Releasing a deep chuckle, Seferia reached over to gently stroke the top of Sephiroth’s head. Despite her teasing about his eating habits, she had no actual complaints in that department. She just enjoyed watching Sephiroth’s feathers become ruffled from time to time. In her opinion, such teasing was nothing more than playful fun. Finally, she straightened up and turned away to tend to her hatchlings.
After finding that the food had been devoured, she scooped up the now empty plate so that she could place it in its proper place.
Sephiroth watched Seferia move away and relaxed. He was done washing himself only a short time later and finally stepped out of the bathtub. He looked around on the floor and promptly frowned as he remembered that he had given his towels away when his new offspring had finally hatched. He sighed and headed to his clothing, dripping water all over the floor. Maybe he had something else he could dry himself with….
Meanwhile, the male was fed and had no cares in the world. So he rolled onto his back, his hind feet stuck straight up in the air, and slept with his mouth open.
The female hatchling was also very content, with a full stomach. So, she curled up next to her brother once more. On making herself comfortable, she closed her eyes so that she could get some rest.
Meanwhile, Seferia returned to the mat that she had set up for herself and Sephiroth. Once she felt comfortable, she shifted her form enough to make her clothing melt off her human hide. From there, she laid back and waited for Sephiroth.
Sephiroth fumbled around, looking for something to dry himself off with. He began to shiver as he continued his search, finally picking up a pair of pants. They weren’t exactly good for drying, but he didn’t have the luxury of being choosey right now.
He began to dry himself with the pants, sitting on the edge of the infant hybrid’s sleeping mat, grumbling to himself about needing more towels from now on.
Seferia lifted her head up as she heard Sephiroth’s grumbles. She then nodded her head, making a point of finding towels on the following day. For now, she decided to use her magic to surround the Jenova-laden man with a warming breeze that is meant to warm him up as it dries him off.
Sephiroth looked around, confused. He hadn’t guessed this area would get so windy… then he glanced at Seferia and knew it was her doing. He rubbed off his hands and then rubbed his body down, dusting his hands off as he went.
“That’s quite useful,” He said quickly. “Though you could have done that in the first place.”
When he was dry, he moved over to sit on the mat beside her, feeling rather exposed for standing up with no clothing on.
“Hmm…” Seferia contemplated over Sephiroth’s words for the briefest of moments. She then smoothly replied, “Yes, I could have. However, you tend to enjoy doing things without outside assistance. So, I figured that it was best to let you do it your way first.”
She then gave him a lopsided grin before she reached out to rub his shoulders. She found it rather strange that after all this time, Sephiroth still managed to feel inadequate while nude around her. She wondered if there was anything at all that she could do to help him relax in general concerning the subject. However, she figured that as with most things, it was best to leave him to his own devices.
So, instead, she just stroked his sides.
Sephiroth shifted closer so he was right up against her, frowning slightly as he picked up her train of thought. He brought some memories to mind of being a lab experiment. He remembered some of the times he was laid out on a table whilst naked and poked and prodded over by scientists of various skills and ranks, all the while feeling rather awkward about the whole thing, even though it was a distant memory in the past by now.
A tired sigh escaped him, and then he tried to think of something better.
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