Shrieky actually manages to look more concerned, not less, at this revelation, "Does that mean you're going to hatch?"

He touches her stomach, then glances up from it to Ilde, with a pretty significant frown on his face. A baby would be all well and good, but if Ilde herself if the egg that needs to crack for it to come out, then they need to have a serious conversation about what Shrieky would do with a baby and without a river monster.