Winter couldn’t help but pity Riley and the guilt he felt for loading her with energy unconsciously. It totally skipped his mind that the egg she was carrying could absorb all of the energy he was dispelling back in the cave, that significant amount had the hatchling maturing faster than normal. According to Terran and Lucius, the hatchling would be birth in a matter of days, it might take longer to hatch though as long as he cut off his energy supply, but if he continues to supply him with adequate energy he would hatch, something he had no intention of doing.
Winter hated that Riley was in such a state, her bright enthusiastic hazel eyes had grown dim with tiredness, as well as her normal vibrant attitude which had seized, and her inviting glossy lips had grown chapped from the cold. He
