Entry 1: Date:10/17/2074

Alyssa took out her egg. She had called it Queenie, even though she didn't think that it had a gender, because it looked all shiny and has beautiful swirly decorations. "It looks so royal looking," Alyssa had told her friend, when she was asked why she had named the egg, Queenie.

Alyssa had examined the egg a couple of times over the last few days ever since she had picked it out in Charms class. She had tried to figure out what was inside the egg, but couldn't. She even tried shaking it, gently, but that didn't work either. She had thought of test dropping it, but decided to nix that idea altogether, because she knew that somehow the Professor would find out about what she had done. Alyssa shuddered to think what punishment the Professor would enforce on her.

For the last few days, the egg had been 'behaving' normally, if still looking shiny and room temperature warm, was considered normal. But now it was time for her to check on her egg again.

Alyssa took the egg out of the bag and unwrapped it from her woolen sock. She immediately felt a difference. The egg was very cold to touch. In fact, it was biting cold AND quivering. "Oh no!! Is the egg hatching? No, it can't be. If I didn't know better I would think that it was actually shivering. Does this egg actually feel the cold? I wonder whether the sudden drop in temperature because it snowed really bad last night, has affected the temperature inside her. Even though she was wrapped up in my little wool sock in my bag, the cold air must have seeped through. What am I doing?? Questions later. I need to warm Queenie up right now,"Alyssa thought to herself.

She placed the egg on her bed and quickly checked her notes for the spell to warm the egg up. It was the Argentum Calidus spell. Quickly taking out her wand, she swished and tapped it on the egg while saying "Ar-gent-um Ca-lid-us".

Putting aside her wand, she reached out to touch the egg, and heaved a sigh of relief. Queenie seemed to be warming up nicely now. Alyssa could actually see that she has stopped quivering...or shivering...or whatever these metal eggs did when they got cold.

"That was a close call. I will need to keep a closer eye on her from now on to make sure that she doesn't get too cold, or too warm for that matter," Alyssa reminded herself.