![]() ![]() Their scales and feathers alike were naturally decorated with an array of vibrant colors, a measured contrast with the more restrained shades of their patient. Surrounding the pair were several medical staff members, all of them various forms of bipedal ancient reptilian, conformed to the general body plan of their anthropoid counterparts. The gleaming amber jewels of her eyes resonated with the setting sun's pervading rays when they were not screwed shut from the mounting pain of her body's immanent labor. She wore only a white gown which hung loosely over her lithe reptilian form, and from her back hung two feathered silver wings of majestic span. She, nearly the same age as him, a long-snouted pterosaur woman, coated in pale whitish-blue feathers with a head of brilliant opaline hair, both now fairly tousled from recent stresses. ![]() He, a younger and taller man, matured but still in possession of his youth's last vestiges, dressed in a green jacket thrown over a plain white shirt and weathered denim jeans all fastened in obvious haste, and thoroughly human. Inside the delivery room on the bed lay the woman, presided over closely by her husband. The vibrant complimentary colors of this vast firmament set themselves around the building's walls as a persistent backdrop which isolated it from the settlements beyond. Outside and further still, above the horizon where the crystal clear water of the coast sparkled in the midst of darker clouds, the descending sun had began to give way to looming indigo sky. Evening summer sunlight leaked through the building's windows, yellow and orange rays streaming forth in an auroral procession that cast the whole hospital in a faint haze of luminous gold. Aromas of cleaner and disinfectant mingled to exude their distinct scents, providing testimony to their work in maintaining the pristineness of the glossy floors, not easily sullied by the commotion that had briefly disturbed the hallways' tranquil stasis. The halls were a uniform marble white, homogenous and sterile, and the utilitarian fluorescent lights affixed to the ceilings hummed together in a dull and consistent chorus that pacified errant sounds into a grounding equilibrium. The sprawling medical complex would have confounded him with its enormity in comparison to the modestly-sized coastal city of Volcadera, had there not been several dozen other causes of much more critical alarm that forced themselves to the forefront of his immediate attention. Twenty-one was the number that had managed to register within the frenzied visual processing of the man as the hurried medical entourage entered the facility's delivery room along with the stretcher that carried his urgently expectant spouse and the precious passenger that lay within her. ![]()
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