[Oh, he'll notices in time, because what she got him -- are books.]

[Seven of them, all in a row. Six are thick encyclopedia-style volumes, leather-bound and reeking of delicious new-book smell. Perhaps more surprisingly, the books are actually on science-y topics! There's one on paramagic, one on Guardian Forces. One covers Time Compression, the fourth is about mechanized warfare and mechanical augmentation of soldiers. The fifth is about monsters. The six is about advanced aeronautics.]

[The seventh book is in the same mold, but it doesn't have a title or anything. Its pages are blank. That one's for Ed to write in, of course.]