[A cream-colored velvety nose pokes out of the basket, blinking large black eyes]

Poniiii [a tiny voice whickers]

Those eggs we bought were apparently waiting to be picked up and had been sitting there for several days. One of them hatched on the walk back.

[Saying so, she drifts over to the small kitchenette area to draw a bowl of hot water and begin stirring a packet of noodle soup powder into it.]