C it all started with an egg (w/ hyenadog)

[Hyenadog]

Hitsugi seemed calm, at least on the outside. But inside he was freaking out. He had just laid an egg and believed he was now responsible for the life within. Until that day, he believed he was just a normal male Avian. And, like most males of his species, he didn't learn much about the females until he was ready to chose a mate. Females kept to themselves until mated, where they would create a lifetime bond. There wasn't any need for males to learn about eggs, since the females dealt with that. All the males did was hunt or tend livestock.

But now Hitsugi was staring at an egg he had just laid, and his whole world felt like it had been flipped. It took Lucien snatching the egg from his grasp to snap him out of it. "H-hey! That's mine!" He yelped, suddenly springing up in a flutter of feathers to try and grab it. Avians naturally recovered quickly from laying eggs.

But being the clumsy youth he was, and still injured from earlier, he stumbled and only ended up knocking the egg out of Lucien's hand. He scrambled to catch it, but he missed by just an inch. Time seemed to slow as he watched helplessly as the egg he thought would contain a baby hit the ground, cracking and spilling it's contents on the dirty ground.

He fell to his knees by the mess, already sniffling as tears welled up in his eyes.