The silver against his dark skin was startling and out of place. Earth usually wore gold and it was jarring to her to see the silver ring on his little finger. He saw her staring and held out his left hand. She took it and inspected the band, nothing more than a silver wire with the ends twisted into overlapping spirals.
“What is it?” she asked timidly.
“It was at one time an engagement ring,” he answered. “Now, it’s just a ring.”
Long after he had left her village, she remembered him, and his spiral ring, and his sad eyes.
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I used to wear a spiral ring like this, which is where the prompt sparked.
This Earth is a young man who also happens to be black, so that was fun. I also discovered that all the elementals of one element share a soul, which is why "Earth usually wore gold".
I love these guys.
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