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Sapient Virus - Lean in close to this seemingly empty vial and you'll see little particles of light arranging themselves to spell words. "S...E...T," and "U...S," and "F...R...E...E...". What in the world...? Could it be pixie dust? Closer inspection would say not; under the strongest microscopes we have, the particles aren't dust of any kind--but viruses! Though how are they even moving? And, for that matter, trying to talk? Viruses aren't even supposed to be alive--let alone able to think! So what was it that made these so intelligent? One thing's for sure, though--don't let them out of that vial! Who knows what might happen!

Crushed Hope - Hope is a thing with feathers--but this one's been cruelly squashed! Just like the bug it resembles. Those must be its guts on the sides of the vial, though they're still glowing and almost seem alive... Ew. Better not look too close. The note that came with it said that the Hope had struggled free of a young girl's desires, only to be squashed by her would-be paramour before its wings had even dried. Now it just lies there, feebly twitching its feathers... Still trying to fly.

Innocent Blood - Spilled on the ground, the blood of an innocent refused to soak into the dirt or dry to dust. Even in the vial, it doesn't show any sign of clotting or decay, remaining the same brilliant red it was the day it was shed. Curiously it even resists being mixed with other liquids or solids, letting nothing adulterate that red color. Holding it to your ear, you perceive a faint sound, almost like a far-distant scream--the blood crying out the name of the murderer who spilled it.

Divine Clockwork - If you were to find a watch sitting on a beach, reason would say that somewhere out there, there's also a watchmaker who made it. But what if you found pieces of a watch that couldn't've been made by any mortal hand? These gears and springs were found growing out of a vein of gold running through a rock in a cave humans had never seen before, ticking away as if they had been wound by someone's hand. Even inside this vial they're still keeping perfect time, though there's nothing to move the gears or pull the springs. Now it's fallen into Dr. Kyou's hands to find out just what might have made this strange clockwork appear...

Unceasing Pulse - A bitter old man who wanted nothing more out of life died, alone and unwanted, in a hospice--but the sound of his heart did not! Lean close, and you might be able to hear the beating of a human heart from the thin walls of this empty vial. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, sometimes pounding, sometimes a whisper. Was that a glimmer of an EKG trace...? Somehow packaged by a nervous hospice nurse, this beat without a heart fell into Kyou's hands not so long ago. Could it be an essence of the world-tree that's caused the sound to outlast the man's death?

Crushed Hope
Live Wire
Abyssal Mud
Missing Noumenon
Zombie Radish
Traitor's/Innocent Blood
Magic Beans(!!)
Ding an Sich
Divine Clockwork/Machina Ex Deo
Fimbulwinter's Frost
Seed of Disaster/Change
Death Rattle
Sprung Spring
Tangible Math
Hyperstring
Scrumptious Reagent
Unceasing Pulse
Fog of Images
Memento Mori
Sentient Virus
Corruptive Salt
Pure Consciousness
Cheshire Smile

Apophis/Apep
Rusalka and/or Likho
wolf wai wai yiff murr
Onychophoran
Horseshoe crab
Nightwalker, ala Princess Mononoke
Basilisk (lizard or mythical king of serpents)
Trilobite(!)