Angelo and Gemma: A Love Backstory (Part 3)
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How much would it sell?
Like a professional gemsmith, the Subanon mountain guide carefully took out the relic he had covered with a face towel. With slow deliberation, he uncovered the towel and upon completion of this simple task, he brushed off some of the dirt which blurred the seven symbols on the shaft of the ancient comb. He was wrong, of course. The seven symbols were actually drawings. Crude illustrations of what looked like, on initial discernment, seven grains of rice arrayed horizontally on one face of the shaft. But, as usual, Mang Kanor was more absorbed in evaluating the more precious parts of the relic (albeit the comb itself appeared to be made of pure copper): inlays of pearl, rare jade, exquisite emerald. If only Mang
