Rodan couldn’t believe what he was witnessing. Not just because this little vermin summoned fire out of nowhere that it could shape at will, but because it also dared to touch him with it, and it dared call him a “pretty birb”. The word “birb” sounded like a mispronunciation of the word bird, which only angered him more. He was no bird, birds were small, even smaller than humans, and Rodan wasn’t tiny.
This human was lucky Rodan had just found an use for it: a fire maker. Leaning down, he nudged the human with his beak until it was away from his eggs. If the tiny fire maker was so bad at understanding telepathy, then Rodan was going to explain what he meant physically. He nuzzled his eggs gently, cooing at them to show the fire maker that they weren’t just rocks, but the only family he had left.
Glaring at the fire maker, Rodan hissed, wanting to make it clear that he would not take lightly any harm done to his offspring, even if they hadn’t hatched yet.
“EGGS,” he hissed through the telepathic link. Hoping that words alone would go through.
“Wh-Hey! Easy there, birdie!” Regardless of whether or not the giant creature was trying to be gentle with her, it was still a great deal bigger than Adara. She fell roughly flat on her face as she was being nudged out of the way.
Rising, she observed the behemoth bird’s act of affections over what she’d assumed were just really smooth, giant rocks….
Wait…okay, how did phoenixes have babies, anyway? All Adara had ever heard was that hey were eternal—repeatedly dying in a burst of flame and being reborn in hot ash and egg. But…the cycle did have to start somewhere didn’t it? …Funny how she’d never considered that before.
…Funny how no one really mentioned that before.
And, then the voice boomed in her head, clear as day, verifying her thoughts.
First-time phoenix eggs—the rarest of the rare! And, here she thought just running into a phoenix would be the highlight of her life! “AAAAAWWWWW!!! YOU REALLY ARE THE CUTEST THING EVERRRR!!!”
Her giant hand of flame, having long dissipated when the giant bird started nudging her, sprang to life again, this time as a giant, burning heart.