“Hey, Hawkie, anything interesting happen while we were gone?” he asked as he casually strolled toward the nest. Jake got a small screech of annoyance. Likely because they’d taken so long to return. “Yeah, yeah, happy to see you too.”
He jumped up to the nest and squatted down, looking at the egg. It hadn’t changed much, but Jake could feel that the faint presence it gave off had increased. “It will hatch soon…” he said, both birds agreeing.
I guess that’s part of the reason why Mystie wanted to hurry back… She was afraid the egg would hatch without her being there, he thought, feeling a bit bad about making the bird leave with him. Luckily, it hadn’t happened, so no harm was done.
And there wasn’t any danger of Jake asking them to leave again anytime soon, mainly because of the notific
