Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Calm (Markets) Before the Potential Storm

Posted by Captain Eela Dasca (Lt. Governor) in Calm (Markets) Before the Potential Storm

Posted by Lieutenant Commander Sharah Fayth (Chief Star Fleet Medical Officer) in Calm (Markets) Before the Potential Storm
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Eela nodded. “Well, I’m wandering anyway- I need the distraction- so let’s go see what else there is,” she said, rising to her feet.

Moving back to the stalls, she found herself once again relaxed. Some of it was her forcing herself to not think about any of the things on her mind, and in this way the wandering became something of a moving meditation. Her eye was caught by a stall she hadn’t seen before full of handmade jewelry. Eela smiled at the artisan. “Good morning,” she said as she eyed the array of items. “I was thinking of getting something for Caridee, something that was from Oed that she could take back with them,” she said to Sharah.

~Eela

Sharah looked over the selection. “They are all quite exquisite.” She smiled at the woman behind the table. “You are quite talented.”

The woman grinned, “Oh not me. My husband makes them. These are all his creations, but I will tell him you liked them.” She turned to Eela, “These here are made from gems and metal mined here on Oed.”

Sharah

“That’s wonderful. I love seeing it,” Eela said, picking up a metal cuff that was embossed with a vine pattern and had round cabochon stones in grey tones with white veins. She traced her fingertip alone the vine and smiled. “This is beautiful,” she said softly. It was exactly Dee’s style. Her daughter preferred less flashy items, while Eela had always appreciated some glitz. She set the cuff down, though she was still pondering it, though she wanted to think about it.

Her eye was drawn to a selection of pendants of various styles and sizes, though they all had some sort of glittery stone in them. “Are you a jewelry person?” she asked, flicking her gaze to Sharah before the pendants drew her attention again, the little ones looking very much like a dria, worn hanging off traditional Haliian headpieces.

~Eela

Sharah shrugged, “Not overly much. I like Jewelry, but I don’t wear it to work, so…” She grinned, “But Yavia is trying to change my habits.” Sharah picked up a couple of random pieces that caught her eye, but she simply knew what she thought was pretty. Her mother had liked jewelry though. Perhaps if they actually came she would bring her here to see. Her father would certainly like the market, at least she thought so.

Sharah

Eela grinned. “Can’t be on duty all the time, but also it’s all such a personal choice, a way of expressing yourself.”

She picked up one of the pendants and held it up. It was a dainty 8-pointed star outlined in gold, with an interior made of a silvery white stone that had a shimmer to it. Resting the pendant in her palm, she felt the weight of it and knew it would be perfect. Eela turned to the woman. “I’ll take this one,” she said with a warm smile. “And tell your husband his work is truly lovely.”

“Oh, I will!” the woman said as she took the pendant to package.

Eela turned back to Sharah. “I’m wearing a traditional Haliian headpiece tonight and it customary to have a part of it rest on the forehead. I think having a dria made from Oed is a lovely little bit of symbolism.” That and the star spoke to her, given she had spent so much of her life amongst them.

~Eela