[She shakes her head and motions for him to come into the kitchen before she heads back in herself. Sitting on the table is a medium-sized box wrapped up in some cloth.]

When I said I was going on missions to get an applied shift put on your boat, that was only part of the reason I was going. The applied shift has been placed, I have their promise in writing, but it came with a bonus gift.

[She picks up the wrapped box and holds it out to him. Under the cloth is a simple hinged wood box. Velvet lines the interior of the box where a large egg waits, faintly iridescent.]