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After the others had all left, Ivan hobbled down the cliff path. As suspicious as things were, it would be more suspicious if he was away from the cave. He practically jumped out of his skin when a frantic Ky grabbed him by the shoulders.

"Where were you?!?! Where's Nym?" Ivan swallowed, looking away. He couldn't stand looking into Ky's dark eyes at that moment. He didn't have any energy to fight. And then Ky noticed Ivan's significantly smaller belly. "Where's our kits!!!!" He practically roared.

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Reva was in the room already, her hair out of it's normal neat knot and instead was a tangled nest around her face. She was scowling with a thermos of coffee in one hand. "Ivy came to the gate claiming that Ivan miscarried... all eleven. I called Devin and he's assembling a team to get Ivan and bring him back to the lab. There has never been a case where a dragon miscarried only a week before and definitely not the whole clutch!"