"When you talk about all this stuff about stones from your own world and...and I just wondered if maybe your world had some kind of a...tradition. Ring-wise. When it came to more romantic adventures. Like I'd hate to order the gorgeous emerald wind option only to learn that this curses the couple or something equally inconvenient."

A pause.

"It's just that I've witnessed my fair share of jewellery-related superstition in the past."