The ring drops out of his numb fingers as he tries to pick it up, and it spins across the floor, glinting in the last ray of sun through the dark, roiling clouds, before that light is blotted out and the gem’s fire dies, leaving dead stone.
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Sick as a dog right now.  Being sick makes me freaking mad, like dammit body what the hell, can't you do any better than that?!  So I wrote stupid fanfiction instead of sleeping and getting better like everyone keeps telling me I should be.

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