She purses her lips. While that is perhaps answer enough, after a moment she shakes her head. "No. We've never even gotten energy readings from it before. We assumed it was part of the dragon. Dead, like the rest of it."

The fact that it's provably otherwise now is terrifying, though she isn't likely to admit it. It's easily the strangest thing to have happened on this strange, foreign world, and it feels like it has every hair on the back of her neck in a state of permanent standing. "If any of you have any suggestions or ways to scan it we haven't thought of, feel free. Trust me, I'm all ears on this one."