"Are you eating this? Or are you absorbing it?"
Not knowing if it was due to the rolling inertia or dissatisfaction from having the fragment taken away, the Dragon Egg bumped lightly into Jasmine's palm following the force of her hand, and even nuzzled against Jasmine's palm like a child whining to get a toy back.
The Dragon Egg naturally would not answer Jasmine's question; it was just a silent egg.
She observed for a while, seeing that the Dragon Egg showed no dangerous activity, thought about it, and then pasted that fragment back onto the eggshell, right at the old spot.
This time the Dragon Egg finally reacted; although the speed was very slow, the Dragon Egg still relied on its round body to laboriously roll in place a few times, rolling the position with the pasted fragment to the bottom, pressing it tightly against the blanket surface, seemingly wanting to hide the fragment so no one could take it away again.
Jasmine: "..."
