_{[Slaine always has an air of subdued anxiety around of him, but that's gone for now as he plucks the pearl out of the shell and gets Hush to hold out his palm. Once he does he sets the pearl there, wet and glinting in the sunlight.]}

I found a pearl inside an oyster. They're very precious. Originally that was just a little grain of sand that got trapped inside...then over years the oyster turns it into that.