Tiger's Eye

The stone of nerve. Tiger's eye has carried the same three words for a very long time — courage, confidence, protection — and it was also the merchant's second stone, kept for success and steady money. Roman soldiers are said to have worn it going into something they had already decided to do.

The band of light that slides across it when you turn your wrist has a name: chatoyancy. Fibres of crocidolite replaced by quartz, catching light in a single line. It only looks steady because it keeps looking back.

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