*It wasn't easy preparing a feast for the family, let alone one that Aurthur and Icer were planning. It had started off as an idea, that they invite Aurthur's parents Alexander and Milicent, along with Temeraire and Dominion and their hatchlings. The idea grew and expanded, as things usually do, until it was a family reunion of sorts, and the Shimmerscale line was a long one.

The place for the event had yet to be chosen, as finding a place large enough for so many dragons was difficult to say the least. However, Aurthur was already making the preparations for the meal itself. He was selecting the best wyvern, cattle, sheep, and deer for culling that would be used. Nothing but the best for his family, of course. Once one was selected, it was marked with a green tag.*

"It's a good thing that all of our herds have flourished this year....."

Her mate had returned to the wyvern pens, but Damian had gone with him. She always would make sure a guard followed along.

While they were out, she had returned to the lair and its gardens. The little ones poked their snouts out of the cavern to watch their mother, before running and pouncing each other down the pathway.

They wanted to help!

A grin as she watched the dragonlings start to swarm around the veggies. Sniffing at this plant, then that before looking to their mother as if asking does this one come out?