[ The way Shell said his name did a little tug to Reign's heartstring. Now that Shell was here and safe in his — their — home, perhaps Reign should let up on mentioning about the early teary days spent in front of Shell's stasis pod.

Besides, there was someone else he had to introduce to his best friend. He crouched down along with Shell, grinning from ear to ear as Scorch stretched his neck and licked Shell's cheek with his long tongue. ]

Ehehe~ He's cute, isn't he? His name's Scorch. Found an egg one day on my bed, and after more than a week, he hatched from it.

[ He rubbed the back of his neck, laughing sheepishly. ]

Don't ask how it happened. There's no logical reason as to how a mammal can hatch from eggs. A friend of mine got a tiger cub, and another a llama.