Kain stood still, running through possibilities. He definitely knew that the egg had been collected by him, but it was unlikely for the Vera to make a mistake and misplace it.
That left him with one possibility: the egg had ended up somewhere other than in the System.
As his thoughts churned, his mind drifted toward an overlooked possibility. His star space.
Queen, when he first contracted her, had brought honey and parts of her old hive into the star space. Therefore, he knew that select objects, especially those created by the spiritual creature, could be brought into the star space.
"But the egg isn't related to any of my spiritual contracts…" he muttered. Then his gaze sharpened as he remembered something peculiar that happened when he was forming his third star.