It was the feel of the object as I turned it over in my hand, the touch and shape of the egg. Stefan’s words came back, describing the crater as resembling a Cassini oval. Datura was oval, carved with repeated inscriptions of itself. They were connected. Datura had appeared five years ago, around the same time as the revelations that lead to the propulsion breakthrough. Reports claimed the engineers had had visions of orbs ‘spinning in a loop’. Could these have been ovals?
