"Happy birthday! I made something for you," Nina tells him cheerfully, offering the tissue paper-wrapped item to him. When he opens it, it's a thin bracelet that at first glance looks like it might be made out of small pearls -- but it's bone. Small, polished beads made of bone. She pulls her sleeve up to show him that she's wearing a similar one on her wrist. "It's a friendship bracelet."
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