#fear*

So Niklaus was talking about an 'orb' down where Arlin is, which is almost certainly the egg thing from the prologue episodes. He told Chip not to disturb it, then the next words stuck out to me: "not you anyways". It got me thinking:

Gillion owes Niklaus a favour, and for a long while I was convinced that was to do with his prophecy, but now I'm not so sure. When Drey touched the egg in the prologue, it caused the black goo to consume him, Finn and Arlin. Clearly the egg needs someone special to claim it (I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this). From the Desire Island arc, we already know that Gillion has some sort of special Chosen One powers to interact with certain things.

Now I'm convinced that Gillion's favour will be to retrieve the egg for Niklaus, and that it may have some consequence with Arlin (Niklaus mentioned a difficult choice for Chip, as well as making a deal for him to not get involved in Gill's favour). If I remember correctly, the egg had the same black and gold colour scheme as Niklaus, so I'm certain they're related somehow. I need to rewatch the Black Rose oneshots to see if there's anything else about the egg to pick up on, but I think I've cracked the case