They are made of steel, and if you pick one up you will experience a wave of fear -- fear that even now, his Nation will die, invaded and overwhelmed by one of the great European empires.

If you survey the shelves, you'll find, in addition to the items listed already: silver apples, little gold dolphins, broken grey branches, a curve of iron, a blue hermit crab, a bloody black gamepiece, a tangle of blue, yellow and light green threads, a smooth grey stone, an alaki, a ball of clay, a blooming Selenia in a little vase of water and a white handkerchief...