barbie biggs
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I hope you won't think I'm rude. Just got to re-reading the rest of this and noticed on page 11, a conversation about a lovely ring with a locket space in it posted by Valeria. It seems to be Victorian and made of gold. Nobody mentioned it but I wondered if a space that size could be used to carry poison? A few hundred years ago, well a number of things:
1) People were smaller in general, which means smaller hands
2) Poison was the accepted method of killing off people in the 'court', meaning royalty, such as an older brother in line for the throne before you, which is why they had food tasters
3) You notice the ring is NOT made of silver, which discolors in the presence of poisons, or at least most of those known in those days and is the main reason why silver ware and silver chopstiks were used by royalty on both sides of the European continent.
Hopefully, the ring is something much more fanciful.
Just exercising my government trained, Air Force translator brain.
Of course a trained assassin would hopefully be skilled at such trivia as opening a locket ring. Wonder what kind of tool they would use?
barbie
1) People were smaller in general, which means smaller hands
2) Poison was the accepted method of killing off people in the 'court', meaning royalty, such as an older brother in line for the throne before you, which is why they had food tasters
3) You notice the ring is NOT made of silver, which discolors in the presence of poisons, or at least most of those known in those days and is the main reason why silver ware and silver chopstiks were used by royalty on both sides of the European continent.
Hopefully, the ring is something much more fanciful.
Just exercising my government trained, Air Force translator brain.
Of course a trained assassin would hopefully be skilled at such trivia as opening a locket ring. Wonder what kind of tool they would use?
barbie
