The Sovereign CEO · WHO she is
Colloquial
The gem made of the same mineral as her own bones — mastery spoken in common language.
Blue Apatite · The Law of Passage
- Family
- Calcium phosphate — Ca₅(PO₄)₃(F,Cl,OH)
- Hardness
- 5 on the Mohs scale
- Colour
- Neon teal to deep indigo blue
- Signature
- The mineral of teeth and bone — the most common gem material in the human body
The stone read as the word
Apatite is ordinary in the best sense: it is the phosphate of bone, of teeth, of the fertiliser that feeds the world's grain. Yet cut clean it comes out an electric blue that rivals any rare stone. Common substance, uncommon light.
Its name comes from the Greek for deceit, because it mimics other gems. Colloquial speech does the same trick in reverse — it looks plain and carries mastery inside it, plain enough that anyone can enter.
What it is carried for
- Carried when what she knows must be said so plainly that anyone may use it.
- Held to keep mastery from turning into distance.