The gift you get for your darling sister is perhaps the easiest - a custom made gown, in rich, light-swallowing blacks, a sheer fabric that ripples like spacetime as it moves. It comes with a matching set of dark emerald earrings and a necklace of platinum and the same dark emerald, the central stone easily an inch across.
The note attached reads âThought youâd love the fabric, and green always looks good on black.â
A collection of toys and treats for all her cats, along with a framed picture of yourself, sleeves rolled up to your elbows and forearms covered in bleeding lines, holding a disgruntled Cat wearing a little bow tie and earth-Christmas Santa hat. You look roughed up but rather smug, staring into the camera in victory.
A second box contains a old Derse dueling saber, hilt chased in gold and onyx, blade still finely honed and perfectly balanced. The not you attatched to this one says âNot nearly as beautiful or deadly as you, my starlightâ
For your beloved, a medium sized box, hiding a treasure of the time the Trolls lived on the planet - an articulated skeleton of some small draconid-like reptile, jaws open to reveal fine little needle teeth that glint dangerously in the light.Â
The note simply says â<3âł
For Scout, a single box containing a pair of knives, both so black they seem to suck in the light, rippling like oil or dark water when youâre lot looking at them directly. Theyâre much denser than mere metal, and the edge of the blade gleams an unhealthy green when swung. A pair of Void Knives, the one youâd taken from Slick, the second made by you for him specifically. At least with these heâll have a good a chance as you can give him, if youâre not there.
âBecause youâve always been at your best with a knife in your hands, beoved.â
The gift you give in front of everyone is a bottle of Prospitian brandy, from the Old Kingdom, a deep amber alcohol that smells of summer and the gold of Prospitian streets. A set of four snifters comes in a second box, Dersite in design, but no less old and finely made.
Because you didnât want them to match doesnât mean you wanted them cheap, after all.
The post it note attached to one of the glasses simply has a spade scrawled on it.