#and also a farm kid who is low key driven to madness by city folk never knowing the basics XD

[razzek]

While I'm on a tear... It has always bothered me that the dragons just explode out of their shells like that. Nothing that hatches does that (except maybe some insects or fish). Like, watch chicks hatch; they take about an hour to really get out of there. I get where it's more narratively dramatic to just have your little dragon bomb pop out of the egg, and Anne was a horse girl, not general farm girl. But how cool would it be to have to patiently wait while the dragonets are sorting themselves out? Maybe a candidate or two get called on early, but most are just wandering in and out of the hatching grounds all day to see who's out of their shell yet.

Also! Why don't the dragons ever reach out to potential life partners while they're in the egg? Breathing air is a pretty arbitrary starting point for sapience. We know they can hear through their shells, that the queens talk to them, and that they talk back after a point. I just don't buy that no candidates don't hear little wisps of thought or have weird dreams that are these questing alien minds investigating potential connections.

Anyway. Been meaning to talk about these two things for ages.