"This should work. It's not really about standing out or making a statement anyway, just a small, throwaway detail that adds a minor refinement to your already high quality."
A delicate chain with five dangling thin triangles is offered to me. Though I'm just slightly hesitant to reach out for it with the box in her hand that feels like a bucket of cobras waiting to bite me.
"...So that one does not have any silver, to be clear?"
"Believe me, it does not. I made very sure of it with a jeweler friend. I have a lot of pieces made of niobium in here which are just as pretty. Which they should be, being a bit more expensive. It's really just too bad…"
I can tell she is leading me to ask with that sigh - and with most people I would usually just hum and ignore them for such a transparent tactic. But she *is* going out of her way to help me out, so the least I could do is express some interest.
"What's too bad?"
