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Tillo Lando: March 5th,20XX

The diamond felt cold and heavy in my hands. Heavier than the actual stone was the weight of the price I knew it held. It wasn’t that large, about the size of a baby’s fist, but I couldn’t help but compare it to the million-dollar rings I’d seen advertised before.

“Woah!”

Kaja held a lump of gold around the same size as the rock in my hand and looked just as awestruck as I felt. Her fingers roamed its smooth surface and applied pressure carefully, as if she was scared, she would dent it.

“Okay, now can you try to turn this into gold, Shia? And Ernate, can you turn this into a diamond?”

Scorda looked at us with eager eyes as he respectively pushed a glass globe at me and a block of raw metal at Kaja.

Besides our meeting with Anatha earlier, today was the first day we were working with the scientists. Destia had told us how her time had gone before she’d gotten hurt.