Contemplations over really good klah

[sanura]

Before I went to Nia's, my mom and I were pawing through her hoard looking for some dichroic glass she wanted to show me (I wasn't as enthusiastic about the glassworking class as the metalworking), and she ended up showing me a lot. There was her first opal (which I wanted to hold when I was four or so and of course dropped on the tile floor in Florida and broke in two), a bunch of tiny opals she wanted to make a necklace of, some cool pendants she wanted to turn into earrings... And their wedding rings. Did you know that they cut the rings off of dead people? Why? They can't get them off? Or is it symbolic? His ring has a slit on the underside now. Like some cheap one-size-fits-all ring. I got all teary when I saw it. I'm tearing up now. She wants to link them and squish them into vague heart shapes, and put a chain through them to wear as a pendant. I can't believe they cut through rings to get them off of people. She says they do that when somebody's in a hospital too. The rings are both simple, flat bands of hammered gold. Mama's is less hammered because she wore it all the time, and it got worn smooth. He took his off to do stuff like plumbing or welding or cars. She washed the dishes with it on, so it's smoother. It's all so symbolic. The sign of an Ailurian lost mate will be a ring broken. Iladi is ring.

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[(Anonymous)]

A ring broken... I should remember that...