A white-eyed man opens it. "Good afternoon."

"Good afternoon." 

There is an obsidian woman in vampire form on the doorstep. She's carrying a large, sturdy basket, containing several soft cozy blankets, a couple of stuffed animals, and one shren egg.

It's actually kind of hard to tell an obsidian woman in vampire form from a vampire, and vampires are not a terribly uncommon sort of visitor to shren houses. But then there's the egg. He nods and holds out his arms for the basket. "Do you have a name picked out, would you like to leave a letter or anything?" She's trying to be nice about it, clearly, with the toys and the blankets.

"Lusiwina for a moonstone, Seshkafalesh for an obsidian." 

She passes him the egg basket very very carefully.

...those names have lines in them. "So we should expect you for a ceremony in a month, then?"

"A month and a week, we didn't wait until the last minute to bring her."

"A month and a week. Just you and your spouse?" The names are girls' names but it could be that the moonstone line would come from a mother-in-law.

"Yes. My wife. ...We might come for her sooner, if...neither of her clutchmates survive."

He's heard that before, but he just nods. "Do you want to come in or would you prefer not to?"

She steps inside. "Can I see? Where the eggs are." 

"This is the only egg at the moment but we have a dedicated room for them." It's not far from the entrance for exactly this reason, first door on the left. It opens to a light kick. It's got a rocking chair and a little table and a lamp and a padded floor. He puts the basket on the floor, under the window so the sunshine will hit it some of the time.

She steps forward, kneeling down to caress the egg one last time, then stands up and nods. "Thank you." 

"You're welcome. We'll look after her for you."

"Thank you," she says again, and then leaves. 

A week later there is another knock on the door. 

Ludei answers it. "Good morning."

"Good morning. My wife dropped off an egg last week--I was wondering if it had hatched yet." 

"I think she's just started trying, actually, if you'd like to watch."

"--Yes. Please."

Into the egg room, then. There's an adolescent blue girl sitting in the rocking chair keeping an eye on the egg; she shrinks a little when she sees Lavi.

"Hello," she says gently, but her eyes at no point move away from the egg once they alight on it. 

The blue girl turns into a pardalote and flutters out of the room.

"You may have time to call your wife," Ludei suggests.

She takes out a communication crystal and hits it. 

"Call my father and have him watch them," she says, without bothering with any niceties. "She's starting to hatch right now. The other two can go without us right there for that long."

Leelu shows up at the front door a couple of degrees later. 

Ludei shows her in.