So, the clock on Momma Dragon's life is running out, but the girls monkey-danced a bit before getting underway.
Idiots.
@TetraSky—
The behavior of such storage would vary across fictional universes but, in every case with which I'm familiar, things in storage seem to be kept in a state of
perfect stasis. That suggests that the issue of air should be expected to be irrelevant. And we might presume that beasts had been place into storage and then extracted alive, so that the transition were not expected to be fatal. On the other hand, stasis would imply no brain activity and hence the expectation of no mental activity, so someone put into and then extracted from storage could have no experience except perhaps of the transition. That experience of transition might be interesting.