Rini asked, “What did he give you? What was his gift?” Rini understood gifts as if they were a language, and he wanted to see what sort of gift Xio Voe would give Kudorin and what message it conveyed.
Kudorin called it forth and there, on the table, it was. On display in its box. A necklace. Six parallel rows of jewels perfectly catching the light. A row of rubies glistening like wet pieces of candy, a row of erlachs as vivid as Anosanim’s eyes, a row of raskavets with the rarest of golden tones, a row of emeralds green as grass, a row of sapphires with a blue to shame the ocean and the sky, a row of purple diamonds of unparalleled depth and clarity, all six rows bound together with polished silver clasps, every stone dramatically cut and the size of Kudorin’s thumbnail.
“Shit.” Talin stared at it, rapidly memorizing.
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“I don’t care how much it costs,” Rini said. “It’s this, it’s perfect. This is the perfect gift for you.” His hands trembled. “This gift, it’s the seven of us, it’s even made with silver instead of gold just for me, and each strand has nineteen stones, one for each god, this is you, it’s Anosukinom, it’s you, it’s - - this is the perfect gift for you, it was made for you, he bought it for you. He didn’t just pick up something nice, he didn’t just get something expensive, he got something made for you.”
“By coincidence,” Desin argued, “because it was there.”
“Oh, Kudorin,” Anosanim said, dabbing at his eyes. “I simply don’t know what you’re going to offer him when you propose. What could ever be better than this?”
“Kudorin’s going to offer him love, understanding, and human emotion,” Desin snapped. “Xio Voe might as well have given him a box of dirt, for all this means.”
A moment of silence passed.
“Wow,” Talin said. “And people say that I’m insensitive.”
Further to the point about Xoe Voe's emotions made above I also think he does trust his instints, maybe more so now that Kudorin, Remin and he had he conversation about being in touch with his Gods. I wonder when Xoe Voe bought Kudorin his engagement gift how much was guded by his Gods and how much was his Gods placing the right gift in the right place and Xoe Voe trusting his instincts. Like Rini says the gift is perfect.
