Felix kept a somewhat more wary distance, his hands clutching anxious at the back of the couch, his eyes wide as the shell fell away. He could feel it even from where he stood - a sudden rush of hot air and, for a moment, a wavering in the air around the egg as a black, serpentine body, crackled with tiny lines like magma, uncoiled in a rush.

"Powers, what is that?" he said, as the unmistakably human part of the creature floundered and twisted to look up at them with eyes the color of embers.