"They found it in the wreckage. Indestructible. Like its owner."
But the broken vortex manipulator hadn't been the only thing that had been rescued from the wreckage of what had once been the Hub. What Gwen didn't tell Jack – what she couldn't bring herself to say to him – was what else they had found buried under the remains of Roald Dahl Plass in the salvage operation. Completely intact, sheltered underneath a fallen kitchen cupboard that was barely more than splinters, standing proudly amongst thousands of scattered, dusty shards of shattered white porcelain, was the coffee machine. Indestructible. Unlike its owner.