BETA TIM’S POV

An egg? Her story was beginning to make sense to me until she got to the part of the egg been placed in alpha Fred’s belongings.

What baffled me was not how an egg could stay for hundreds of years without hatching, but that Mildrid and her cohorts have outlived the egg. Mildrid may be over half a thousand years old and I... I... did that with her...

I felt like convulsing and bringing out every one of my intestines. They must all be properly cleaned before they are placed back into me. Even my flesh should be ripped off for a new one to grow in...