The tale of the fox and the dragon egg

He stared at it. Not believing for many minutes - because who would trust him with this?
His friend must have made a huge mistake. Or he had no other choice. Probably both.
Wei Ying nibbled at his bottom lip, edging and almost drawing blood. Even when he was millenniums old, he felt like a child again. He wished his shijie was here with him. He wished it all the time.
With one long gaze into the night sky he sighed, already accepting. Determined.
The pure white egg before him pulsating with qi was the only thing keeping him from breaking down.
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Wei Ying finds a wounded dragon inside his woods, death already looming above. In its last moments it gifted the fox something precious. An egg, in pure Lan white. The lonely fox had no idea what this egg would bring him. Or who searched and found them both in the process.

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Cover by @KariyaFuzuuke