Role

Chapter 2

The young female arial lands gingerly at the west gate of Hamsah Mu'tazz. She
looks around while coddling this ugly speckled egg. The Sultan's gate is nearby
and she walks up to it and scratches under her beak thinking. While she is doing
that a slaver walks by pulling a few very young arials. Not knowing what to do
she waves the man over to talk.
The large man sees her and her frightened face and sees profit, so he waves for
the chained up arials behind him to sit and he leisurely walks to her.

"What can I do for you ma'am?", he slimes.

"Do you buy eggs of arials? I found this one and want to make some profit", she
whimpers.

He cackles loudly! "Certainly, I'll take the egg, but its not worth much. Show
it to me."
She unfolds it from her wings and shows him the ugly egg. He recoils then laughs!

"That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I'll take it off your hands, but I
am not paying you. Consider it a favor.", he mumbles through a chuckle.

Distraught and confused, she just hands over the egg and flaps away, tears
falling from her eyes as she flaps back to Arial city.
The slavemaster's eyes glisten with profit, something this unusual must be worth
something. And just at that moment the egg cracks open and a tiny speckled beak
breaks through the shell.

The slavemaster watches as the little arial breaks his way through the shell and
smiles. This may be the ugliest arial he has ever seen. And ugly brings profit
to him, and he knows the perfect place to sell this ugly duckling.