EYES OPEN
Simple band, rose gold, with a single oval stone that is not a diamond, something older and more interesting, the colour of deep water, catching the Sunday light through the east window and doing something with it that makes it look alive.
"It is an alexandrite," he says. "It changes colour in different light. In daylight it is blue green. In the evening it goes purple." He pauses. "I saw it and I thought, that is her, that is exactly her."
I look at the ring.
Then at him.
"Something that changes in different light," I say quietly.
"Always itself," he says. "Just different versions depending on where you are standing."
I stare at this man.
This man who just described me in a ring.
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