A large, dark, gnarled seed-cocoon with a cracked opening from which pink flowers drip golden nectar.

The egg is not an egg in the traditional sense—it is a large, gnarled seed-cocoon, about the size of a curled-up child. Its outer shell is made of entwined black bark and bone-white roots that pulsate faintly, as if breathing. Delicate flowers grow from cracks in the bark—grieving flowers: wilted, color-drained, and dripping with golden nectar. If you touch the egg, you feel a chill run through your memories, as though it knows every sorrow you’ve ever buried. See more