Thrystram’s Hatched Follower!, exclaimed the clamshell packaging. A gleeful Spellustration of a chimera danced around the cardboard insert, making faces at the script. Train yourself to train a familiar! Each swift-gro egg will hatch in hours, bond in days, and gently depart in just a fortnight, leaving you one step closer to familiar familiarity. The back of the box, beast-free, revealed that each egg had a one-in-thirteen chance of hatching a beginner’s basilisk.
Which was why I was on the case.