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"Why would you build your own nest?" Ky crawled over to Nym to get a better look at his face. "I said you could stay here with us. Nothings changed." He'd thought that Nym would want to stay with them. It wasn't right for dragons to sleep alone.

Ivan rolled his eyes. Couldn't Ky see that Nym was still a little nervous about breeding. But on a more serious note, "You probably shouldn't. Not yet at least. Maybe you can build a new nest once he wakes up and we get to know the new seeder better, but until then it is safer if you stay close."

"Ivan," Ky snapped "Nym doesn't need to make a new nest period." Irritanted Ky shifted to his dragon form and shredded a chunk of gator off with his jaws, chewing furiously until he looked back at the tundra dragon."If you don't like this cave we can find a new place to build together. Or if Ivan and I bother you I bet Ceral and that other carrier would gladly take you in." Why would a dragon ever want to sleep alone? It was unnatural. Then again forest dragons were born by the dozens and often had many many siblings and relatives to share a nest with.

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"You smell amazing! Like dark places and cool water. I just want to eat you." She nipped at his neck some more than disentangled herself to get to the gator legs. "But I suppose this'll do." Ivy grinned and begun scrapping scales off and ripping off chucks of meat. "Thanks!" He'd given her a gift! That was a type of courtship right? She'd need to get him something in return. She'd have to learn more about what he'd liked first. Maybe fish? He seemed to like that, but she wasn't a very good swimmer and it seemed plenty obvious that he knew how to hunt for himself. That and the humans would give him whatever food he wanted at the gate. At least if they decided that he deserved or needed it.

She froze at Ceral's question. "Are you serious?!" she shouted. "Of course I hate it here! No one is meant to live in captivity." She snorted unladylike and almost choked on gator. "'Cept maybe Ky. Place 'as got him brainwashed. He believes all that crap about self-worth being directly linked to how virile you are and the amount of offspring one produces. That whole a sterile dragon is a useless dragon propaganda." She paused to chew and ripe of a bit of gator with her teeth. She felt several heated moments passed by before she took a deep breath and looked away from Ceral. "I didn't mean to knock Ivan up you know. We were just having fun and I really liked him. I knew Ky liked him too, but... " She shrugged. "You're not just here for breeding, no matter what the humans believe. We're allowed lives too."