The pool was steaming hot despite the fact that the room looked like it had not been attended to for years. There was some enchantment on it, no doubt. Astor undressed and caught himself in a mirror adjacent to the pool. His body still chiselled on the exterior, looked emaciated and haggard, his hair was bedraggled, and his skin was soiled and dirty. Without caution, he threw himself into the heated pool to cleanse himself of the ordeal of the last few days, the pool was hot, but not scaldingly so, and the sensation of immersing himself in the hot balming liquid was a pleasant one. The sensation was quickly undercut by an immense and deafening scream which seemed to emanate from somewhere inside the pool. Alarmed, Astor quickly swam to the surface, and as his head breached the surface, the screaming stopped, and he was back in the silent bathhouse again. He swam around, looking for the origin of the noise, and found a speck of gold lying on the surface of the pool. The refracted light from the pool distorted the image, so Astor could not make out its shape or construction. Bravely, he dived back down into the pool to find out what it was. The screaming was unbearable, but he managed to grab the gold orb at the bottom and brought it to the surface. Astor inspected the object, it was a large golden egg, not a real egg but fashioned from metal, and it had stopped screaming the moment he had brought it out of the water. Curious as to how the enchantment worked, he dunked his head back in while holding the egg, and unsurprisingly the egg began to scream again. He brought himself and the egg back up, and the screaming stopped. If he was to meet the lord again for battle underwater, it would be a useful item, but as it only worked when fully submerged, it was just a large useless stone. Ator let the golden egg sink back down to the bottom of the pool where it had laid before, and so it remains anchored in the Hogwarts bathhouse to this day.