I loved how this episode starts out with existential conflict on a galactic scale, then zooms in to a single character and her comparatively personal, local problems. I love the feeling that there is so much more to the universe, and to the object Ejiro finds, than she or the reader knows.
As an aside, I would really love to read more fiction in the vein of the first part of this story. If anyone has any recommendations on that sort of hyper-dimensional space opera, I'm all ears!