End the Secret Affair
They finally realized that what they had seen as a crack was, in fact, a pair of meticulously sculpted hands reaching across the divide, perpetually suspended just short of a touch.
It was then that Diske turned, handed the ring back to me, and said, "I'd like you to tell us about your piece."
I took the ring, taking a deep, steadying breath. "It's a piece called 'The Rifted Vow.' You see, the deliberate gap in this ring symbolizes the deep fracture in a relationship, which occurred due to the endless back-and-forth of emotion, the confusion of honesty and deceit, and the multitude of times trust was broken then cautiously rebuilt, much like the near-connection of these two hands."
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