Editing Eavesdropper's Earring (section)

== History ==
The earring was made together by the [[Kennet Trio]]. Verona's antique scissors that she had used for the [[Awakening]] ritual and [[tempered]] magically were used to make the metal parts, while the gemstones were conjured magically from the photograph Avery used in her Awakening - with the main gemstone being the image of a whispered conversation between [[Edith James]] and the [[Hungry Choir]] around the time of the [[Carmine Beast]]'s murder.<ref>The handles of the scissors, taken apart and filed down to something subtle, would become ornamentation, fitting to the curve of the upper ears, sitting just inside the rim.  The inside of each would be more framing and decoration, hooking around the side of the ear to hold the ornament in place.<br><br>But in the end, it was earrings.  The crystals and glimmers they formed using Avery’s photo would decorate the dangling portion, and be decorated further with the blade.  An earring to let Lucy shine, to be proud of her appearance, because both of those things mattered.  A creative working poised around the ear for the girl who loved music.<br><br>And, perhaps most critically, captured on the last page Lucy had snared, a scene.  A distant, captured conversation to adorn the ear of 
an eavesdropper. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]
</ref> They had originally considered making a pair, but messed up one of them during the creation process.<ref>This was the first time Lucy was seeing it all in one piece.  The loop of the handle where the fingers were inserted had been separated, made to sit inside the outermost rim of her ear.  It extended to the lobe, and there was a pin there to extend through the hole in her earlobe she already had.  A fine wire dangled, and a smokey, red-tinted crystal was set within a cage of the same material the scissors were made of.  More crystals studded the upper portion.<br><br>They’d debated going with two and going with one.  In the end, the decision had been made for them, when the preparations of the first piece had gone a bit south.  Avery and Verona had been rubbing a handle against a filing surface, and a part had broken off.  They’d decided that it was more trouble than it was worth to repair things.<br><br>Better to finish the construction of this one, give a little ceremony to say goodbye to the broken piece, saying a few words about mistakes being made, but it not being an ending.  They saw this stuff through. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/17 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.7]]
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Lucy conducted the [[Implement|Implementum]] ritual over the course of three days, talking with the personified earring and being tested in various dream-like scenarios.

When the Kennet trio worked with Zed and Brie to investigate to [[Placement Test]] it was one of the items substantiated.<ref>As a result, Lucy’s hat had a chain with a dog tag and ring on it wound around where the point met the brim, and that became Dog Hat.  Lucy had also produced the Fox, from the mask, Smoke, from the cape with runes inscribed on it, and Earring girl, from, well, it was obvious. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/25 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.z]]</ref>

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