Oracle circled the huge cave that was her home, watching the latest cache of hatchlings play with her daughter. Oh how she loved little ones. The grandmotherly suva lay down, curling her tail around the small group of mostly unrelated younglings. It made her both happy and sad to watch Ceniik play with them. She was poud of her eldest, especially how she got along with every one of them, no matter the personality, but the fact that she herself could not interact with them quite the same as she had when she was younger saddened her heart.      One of the little rolly-poley hatchling tumbled head over heels and Oracle smiled, stopping him with a single finger, careful not to use her claw. "There now, youngling," she said softly, and smiled at him. The hatchling grinned sheepishly, then ran back to his playmates. It would be time for a nap soon, she thought, and sure enough, not ten minutes later the little ones started to run out of play-juice, and sort of tumbled together between her enormous forepaws. Each finger was longer than the hatchlings were.      "Liisji-Orac'! Mayi, mayi! Have us sh'story!" one of the hatchlings chirped up in broken yaiyashusa. He was the one that had rolled out of the group, and was the last one to settle down in front of her. They called her 'mama-Oracle', or would, if they spoke enough english and pronounced her name right. She liked it. No youngling had called her 'mama' like that since her eldest had grown and her youngest had taken her place in the life-story of another.      The huge dragon smiled. It was a good thing she was used to the hatchlings' first language being a mix between english and the realm's native tongue. the could all understand both languages well, but it took a little practice to seperate the two and pronounce the words.      So, they wanted a story, did they? Oracle thought momentarily. She was their first glimpse at the world, and she would need to teach them the ways of their kind before they headed out into the world with their new caretakers. What better time to teach them than when they actually wanted to hear something?      "Alright now, settle down and I'll tell you a very special story," she began, then laughed a little as the whole twitchy mass of legs and tails and tiny wings stilled almost instantly, all of their huge eyes, filled with expectant delight, focused on her face. And so, she began.