Miss Malone watched Shard intently, pausing after each word to ask:
"Are you trying to say that I have something to do with that cult group?"
"No, of course not. But I suspect that the lost 'antique' is related to the Dragon Feast Cult."
Shard said, reminding the witches:
"At that time, the cultists were organizing to sacrifice the lives of the entire ship, possibly including their own. In such a situation, why were so many crew members helping that first-class lady look for something?"
Shard, as an outlander, easily identified this discrepancy. Miss Teresa, who was huddled beside him, understood:
"Do you mean that the object is related to the true intent of their actions?"
"Yes, the antique must not be very large, and it doesn't have the power that the witches can easily detect. It relates to the dragon, and my first thought was dragon scales, but in fact..."
"It's not dragon scales, that valuable item is an egg, a dead dragon egg."
