The moon greeted one shadow climbing a wall of rocks as the other shadow watched.

"I think I see something in there Rory." Tinley peered through the black hole through the rocks. It was cold, wet, and slippery on the rocks. Her feet slipped underneath her.

"Careful!" Rory was spotting her from the ground.

Tinley stuck her hand into the hole. She felt something slimy around her fingers, "Ack, seaweed." She tossed the seaweed and dug once again into the hole.

"Anything?" Rory was almost hit by the flying seaweed.

"I think," Tinley felt something smooth underneath her fingers, "I think I feel something."

"More seaweed?"

"No, I think," her fingers barely grasp the object, "it feels like another xun."

"What? You want more burns on your hands?" Rory shook his head.

Tinley finally gotten ahold of the object, "I got it!" She carefully found her way down off the rocks and presented the object to Rory.

"It doesn't look like a xun," he commented. The egg-shaped object was big enough to fit in Tinley's hands.

"Yeah," It weighed like a feather, but the sandy mud was covering it. "Quite muddy. I feel like it might be an actual egg"

"An egg?"

"Rory! Tinley!" A voice from the house was calling them.

"It's mum," said Rory, "we better get going before she chews out our butts."

Tinley nodded and tried to hide the xun and the newfound egg in her sweatshirt pocket.

"Don't tell anybody about this." Tinley whispered, "we could get into serious trouble."

"Okay, fine." Rory took the egg from her hands, "The xun and the egg won't fit in your pocket together."

Tinley hugged her brother, "Thanks."

"Let's hurry," he said as he broke off his hug with Tinley.