2024-06-07 - What It Can't Know

Moss Blankets the World is a small, mostly brown egg, dappled with greens in a natural-looking, appealing pattern reminiscent of, as its name suggests, some species of moss. It sits nestled deep into the sands, and though its position changes from time to time it never shifts far from where its mother rolls it.

Part of this may be due to its round, stout shape. The other part may be because of how its shell seems strangely soft from a distance, far behind its clutchmates in the process of hardening up - it seems almost like the egg of a reptile such as a snake. The shape bulges and shifts occasionally, only noticeable to the most observant of onlookers. It seems healthy otherwise, bright and shiny like any other egg - its strange firmness (or lack thereof) is its only truly unusual or concerning feature.