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4.

"No crack," Taichi says after a moment. Hikari keeps her hand on his shoulder as the strange thing quivers and shifts around until it is like a paperweight with spots on it.

Hikari peers at it, then moves forward. "Be ready to get Mom and Dad, Taichi."

"Un."

In other words, he needs to be ready to scream his little lungs out.

She totters over to it on tiny feet. The cricket noise is quieter, almost like bees in her ear (ew). The egg doesn't move now, sitting up all innocent on the floor. Hikari stares at it for a moment, expecting... well, she didn't know. Then she pokes it with a finger.

And pokes it again.

Nothing.

She puts her hand on it, then knocks her fist on it as gently as she can. It's tough, like seashells. There are weird splotches on it, pink like when Dad makes Mom laugh. But it's still tough, and cold. She picks it up and there is no noise.

"Egg," Taichi says, thumb in his mouth. Hikari blinks. "Poor chicken," he adds, and this makes her giggle.

So they have a computer egg.

"Let's go back to bed," she says.

This is too much thinking in one night.

The buzzing is still in her ears too.