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Cleo can’t help but smile. Gem’s leaning into her sniffer egg, intent, eyes wide and earnest. “What are you doing?”
“I’m waiting for it to hatch!”
She sounds so sweet; Cleo feels her unbeating heart flip. “And you need to be five centimetres away from it to do that?”
“Well, what if there’s a crack, I don’t wanna miss that!”
“Come on, love,” Cleo sighs, “you can take a break. It’s not like you’re gonna miss its first steps.”
“Alright,” she pouts, settling back and into Cleo’s side. They have a whole lifetime of growth ahead of them, after all.