Liora put them on.
When the system responded to contact with her mana, the precision of the adjustment was the kind that didn't happen by accident, and Liora thought about all the times Ren had been nearby without her knowing he was seeing exactly what she was, not just the surface of it, and that information went to the place where the others of its kind lived and where it was going to keep existing for a long time.
She didn't cry.
It was a conscious decision. A difficult one... It was close.
The third pair arrived in Luna's hands.
'BEAUTIFUL EARRINGS!'
Luna received them with both hands a moment early, because Luna's body had its own priorities when the nervous system was processing several things simultaneously. But Ren helped cover the small slip by making a deliberate gesture of finality, the kind that read as "task completed" and redirected attention toward completion rather than the beat before it.
