Tootfiction/Thimbleful Thursday: Nest Egg

[aldersprig]

“The idea,” Ron explained, “came from putting a fake egg into a nest to encourage the bird to lay there. So…” He put $50 and a ceramic egg in the safe-deposit box.

“I don’t think that’s how it works,” Iva complained. “It’s all about saving money, encouraging YOURSELF to put more cash away. Not just… hoping someone else will lay eggs in your safe-deposit box.”

“Well, if I’m wrong, we move it all to the savings account and go from there. But if I’m right…”

Both of them were surprised when, upon opening the box a month later, they found $100 and 15 ceramic eggs.

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Written to April 20's Thimbleful Thursday prompt and also tootfiction - 500-character-or-less fic for Mastodon

Comments

[kelkyag]

<giggles>

Fairy town, and what *are* those eggs going to hatch into?

[aldersprig]

That’s a very very good question!!

[lilfluff]

That $100 might well have been the mysterious egg benefactor being polite and providing something to help with the fourteen surprise dependents.

[aldersprig]

*snort* “thanks for the nest, here’s a starter.”

[sauergeek]

If something's hatching out of a ceramic egg, it'll need to be a lot stronger and/or more persistent than the usual baby bird. I wonder what they have? Or, given the other spirits/ghosts/whatever showing up elsewhere in Fairytown, if some avatar or priest of Dažbog is making some suggestions about what to do with those eggs. ("Here's a fifty. Get yourself some wax and fancy dyes...")

[aldersprig]

oooh, pysanka! I love those…

Teeny tiny monsteries? Luck spirits?