To be honest, when Gawain saw the dragon egg, he was just as puzzled as Amber: Dragons had gone to great lengths to deliver such a special... "gift" to him, so he really had to consider how to handle it afterward. The critical point lay in how exactly to deal with this thing—Gawain suspected that since the dawn of human history, nothing like this had ever happened. Although many chivalric novels and heroic biographies loved to involve dragons in their stories, often depicting protagonists who by sheer luck obtain a dragon egg and, after hatching it, become companions, nowadays everyone knows that these stories are most likely written for fun by dragons like Melita...
So, how was he supposed to handle such a dragon egg? Hatch it? How?
