[Virgil picked up the notebook, wondering at it, and then sat down to write.]

I was trying to ask if you also came from the hole in the wall, but I presume you did. What is this, and can it be removed?

[He tapped the piece of jasper gently. Whatever this cosmetic change was, it couldn't mean much, right? He had stumbled in with it, it wasn't as if someone had sunk it into his actual flesh, right?]