As Eva picked up the egg, a mist descended and she found herself lost. She wandered around for several hours until she came to the edge of a lake. A voice told her that Jeff would be born in this place. She realised that she was at the crossing of seven roads and lo! an inn had magically appeared. Eva entered the inn and found that she had entered a bragging competition. A whale was about to be carved and the heroes were fighting about who would be getting the champion's portion. Each tried to assert that he owned the most magical object. The goose held up a ring and claimed that this was the ring the dodge of Venice had thrown into the lagoon this year. Because the goose had been born on the isles of Greece to the north and travelled the world and seen the bears of the snow. He had slain the king of the bears and travelled to the city of Venice. When the dodge threw his ring in the sea as a wedding present the goose dived and and ate the fish that had eaten the ring.
The dolphin had the very first acorn of the very first oak tree that ever grew on earth. For when the earth was formed, oak trees were the first trees to grow and pigs were the first to roam the earth and it is therefore that pigs like acorns best.
When Eva came in, the hall fell silent. Eva held up the egg. 'I,' she declaimed solemnly, 'have Jeff.' She was handed the knife and carved the meat and ate the champion's portion. This happened every night for seven years.
One night, as was bound to happen, a fight broke out between the heroes in the inn. In the melee, the egg broke. The yolk and the white was picked up as good as they good and an omelette was made. Eva ate it and fell asleep.
Eva dreamt that two birds chained together with a golden chain came to her and as they came closer, one became smaller and changed into a fly and she swallowed it. The other told her that it was Jeff she had just swallowed and she would be pregnant with him for seven years and then she would give birth to him and he would be a hero.
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