And then, to discover the queen egg had been stolen!

"But we don't know if that queen egg came from the same clutch as the Others."

"How many queen eggs have been laid this past Turn?"

Suddenly everyone had eyes only for the queen egg, which was rocking violently.

And there was a golden queen egg in the new clutch.

Of course, I've never been with her when she was laying queen eggs.

No queen egg, but that's often the case when a Weyr has enough queens.

"Who else would need to steal a queen egg?"

"Well, just how did Sebell get his hands on the queen egg?"

Lessa had not been paying that much attention past the first three, for the queen egg was beginning to rock.