one does not simply look upon dion's RED EARRINGS and joshua's TURQUOISE BELT and not see them for the heartwarming and tragic childhood gifts that they must have been. an exchange of personal items at the end of the week of the remembrance ceremony, after only a short time of knowing one another. those days clearly had an impact on them both, meeting another dominant their own age for the first time who was also a prince - finding solidarity and also friendship in one another (enough that TWO DECADES LATER despite the fact that sanbrequois soldiers were the ones who killed joshua's father, he believed that dion would still be a good and honourable person, that he would listen to this impossible story of his earnestly). they gave each other something to remember them by - dion off his own person (given that the turquoise stones match sylvestre's perfectly) - as a gift alongside promises to write. and they did, exchanging letters for months before tragedy struck at phoenix gate.
