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Visual description: In a memory, an adult’s hand places the brass ring in a child’s open palm.
Narration: Her father had given it to her when she was seven.
Visual description: Young Mira sits beside her father at a workbench among brass machinery. Through a porthole, rain lashes the water and a nearby vessel.
Narration: Rain hammered the ferry hull. Above them, passengers prayed to every god that accepted small payments.
Visual description: Passengers sit with heads bowed and hands clasped. Below, Mira watches her father hold the ring over a large bolt in a metal plate.
