She shuddered softly as her body contracted, lower body beginning the process to expand slowly once again. Pain rippled through her lower abdomen, and she moaned piteously, a panting gasp drawn from her beak uncertainly. "Oh, its a big one," she said, rubbing her distended belly as she leaned her back against the wall, squatting down over the clutch beneath her powerful legs. With a slick 'pop', the egg began to slide loose from her vagina, descending to plop wetly against the other soft shelled forms beside it, nestled carefully in the feathers and bedding she'd so carefully built together to protect their fragile forms.