| About the Set.
This set is inspired by rusty metals and aquamarine gems, the birthstone of March.
"I can hear their voices even now", she cried. "Palamir, Rieavitsi, Elodarin..."
He cut her off, "Stop it! What is to be gained by such memories save pain?" For a moment he paused to study her then continued, "You keep these things in your heart too much and they begin to speak to you."
"Is that not a good thing?" Zaralyn asked.
"I suppose it depends upon what is said to you in those distant voices." Michael smiled at her, he always did when trying to save her from herself.
Zaralyn sat on the edge of the bridge looking down at her reflection; it was one of many, but this one she liked the best. Into that reflection she touched a toe sending cascades of ripples across the lake.
"Isn't a world like this? Wasn't Rieavitsi like this? Wasn't our lives there like this?" her questions growing more desperate. "Wasn't our lives like this cascading ring. Didn't Rieavitsi mean anything?"
Quickly, Michael reached out his hand and covered hers trying to soothe her, "Yes, yes of course it did. But Rieavitsi is gone, the whole world is gone." He frowned slightly as he considered his words. "I suppose it only has meaning to us, Zarie. Whatever meaning we decide to give it."
Her head tilted up to look into his eyes, "Billions died when that world passed away. How do we give meaning to that?"
He squeezed her hand as he looked over the lake, "I don't know", he murmured quietly, "I just don't know."
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