Æon enters her living quarters to find a container of eggs she was keeping in her refrigerator but she finds that Trevor, who is in a cupboard, has had them all. Angry, Æon leaves her apartment but before venturing outside the Monican base she witnesses another agent fail to successfully complete jumping through a complex climbing frame. Æon steps up to practice jumping through, just as the other female agent walks away, and flawlessly executes the complex routine. Later, she enters a strange base and collects some of the same eggs seen earlier in her apartment. Resisting the urge to leave, Æon breaks one of the eggs and analyses the broken contents under a portable microscope ...