When I woke up and opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was darkness.
"Again?! from one dark place to another?
what a funny joke!
hmm?
Wait!
I feel something!
warm?
wet?
WOOOO
I never expected to be so excited when I feel something warm and wet!
I can even feel my arms and legs!
and I can move them with some resistance!"
When I moved my arms and legs, I realized that I was locked in some tight cage.
"time to get out and see and feel something! whatever! even pain would be a fresh and pleasant experience!"
without much thought, I started to beat the walls that stopped me from getting free.
And to my surprise they broke easily and after a few minutes I had punched a hole big enough to get out of this cage.
and the first thing that came to me was a big "Bone?"
stuck in the ground and surrounded by eggs?
"weird"
As I started to look around, I heard a voice behind me.
"Welcome new hatchling!"
huh?
new hatchling?
I turned around and saw a big lizard that walked on two legs and was dressed in gold armor that resembled gladiator armor.
in his hand he held a pickaxe, torches, and a dark leather bag.
"these will be your tools to work in digging and finding shiny rock!"
he threw a pickaxe in front of me
"here you put shiny rocks until it's full, when it's full take it to the sotrage which is opposite the hatchery"
Threw the bag on the pickaxe
"and a torch for vision in dark tunnels, set fire to the thicker end in the lava or another torch on wall and stick it in the ground where you are digging.
the tunnel to mine is on the right as you exit the hatchery"
he threw in a stick with a black end and started walking away.
"what just happened?
can lizard talk?
I going mine after I'm born?
shouldn't I learn first, I don't know, Walking? speaking?
hmm?
wait!
if he is a lizard and considers me a new worker and isn't trying to eat me then am i a lizard too?
I quickly look on my hands, which were short and covered with scales, and the fingers had short sharp claws.
fuck!
I turned my head and saw the tail behind me
fuck!
I'm a lizard. Great!
But it's definitely better than spending eternity in the dark!
let's move those muscles a bit and we'll see new things!
full of energy I got up and picked up the bag pickaxe and torches which I put in the bag.
I was thinking they will be much hevier,but surprisingly they are quite light or am i strong?
Once again Ilook one more time at the room where I was born and specifically the "bone?"
That was covered in bloody drawings or letters? and pulsed.
"well i saw a 2m lizard that walks and talks like a human, a strange bone that seems to be alive is not so surprising anymore.
I changed my target to the egg I hatched from which started turning to ash.
"Not a minute passed and they started to turn to ashes?
not dry?
anyway, I'm more curious to see what the outside of the world I will now lives in looks like!
With short and unstable steps I started to walk towards the exit where stood the lizard that gave me the tools.
"good luck new hatchling!'
he said as I walked past him
good luck?
for what?
stone picking?
Never mind.
after leaving the hatchery, I saw several lizards similar to the one inside in similar armor with a spear in hand.
like the lizard said, on the right there was a tunnel where four lizards in armor were standing and opposite there was a door to a building made of some bricks of wood.
"probably this is the storage he was talking about,
okay let's go to the mine first, I don't think they have any child rights, when they send me to the mine right after I was born, I'm afraid to think what they'll do to me if I don't work.
I was walking in small steps towards the mine when I passed between the guards they looked at me with curiosity for a moment
"new hatchling?"
and then they lost all interest
ignoring what the guard said I went further into the mine.