That is most likely. And if she had young in there, staying at their side would be far more important than chasing the one who roused her from her nap.

[Those sorts of antics sound like something his friend Isamu would do. It was hard not to laugh at that thought.]

Pardon my inquiring, but what sort of work is it that you do? Being commissioned to fetch the shells of a dragon egg sounds quite curious.

[He's curious what would be special about a dragon's egg shell, but he can only assume it was probably an alchemical reagent of some kind.]