Her grin was evil as she said, “You’re going to need to regrow the ring from Liz’s, and that’s not easy. You need to find a material five Tiers higher than the ring’s current form that it actually wants, and then pour it in. Sometimes, it only needs a pinch, and sometimes it needs a thousand pounds of material. Fixing broken growth items isn’t cheap at all.” It didn’t seem that bad until Kurt wrote, “The materials to regrow missing parts of growth items are never cheap. They’re rare, and hard to find.” Matt wanted to complain, but not because of the price. He was pissed that the ring was gone. That was one of the things that had bound Liz and himself together. He had offered the ring more on instinct, and it had paid off better than he could have ever expected. It wasn’t about who Liz’s

