Okay, real quick recap on the orb: way early on, we had found a chain at Kourins that would periodically spark magic, but Kourin couldn't figure anything out about it. Later, as part of a reward from Satori we recieved a metal orb, not dissimilar to an eye, that Satori thought was vaguely interesting and gave to us. When we returned to Kourin's and brought out the orb the two snapped together and seemed to display odd characteristics, as well as looking suspiciously like a satori's third eye. Taking the orb/chain back to Satori, Satori was able to hear very muffled thoughts from it, and we left it with her overnight to see if she knew anything else about it.
Whew.
> "Hm, maybe you should hold onto it for now, see if you can figure something out. I bet you could use a hobby, 'side from keeping pets 'n taking care of Reimu."
> Hm... speaking of Reimu, Satori seems to have cooled off. Troll time!
> "So, Satori, you never explained what was up with the whole vein wrapping thing."