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"You don't seem too concerned that your youngling is out of your sight." The Matriarch pointed out.

"It's not like she's outside of my sensory range, and she is relatively safe here. Everyone is on edge right now, and attacking a stranger would be very suspicious and draw attention that nobody wants when a Divine Dragon is looking for someone who would do something as low as stealing an egg." Cain replied.

"Not a bad analysis, but Dragons are carnivores." 

"So are Lamia Progenitors. Even if she's in a human form, she's not quite as helpless as she looks. Maybe as naive, but not as helpless." 

"You are an odd one. Hopefully, that is enough to find my missing daughter. I wasn't even gone for long, I only went hunting for a few hours, and I came back to a missing egg." She explained.