While she's doing that, Manabu bends to reach further into the crate for the items too dense to drift up. The shapes are more uniform - oval stones of varying degrees of smoothness and polish - with peculiar markings...writing?

Once her hands are free, Manabu lifts one of them out and holds it out for her inspection; if anyone could have a guess on that writing, Vira-Lorr surely would have.