Constant

Green that never wavers, even with the garden of flaws inside it — standing firm together.

Emerald · The Law of Procurement

Family: Beryl coloured by chromium and vanadium
Hardness: 7.5–8, but brittle from inclusions
Colour: Pure vivid green, never any other hue
Signature: Its inclusions are called the jardin — the garden — and are expected, not hidden

The stone read as the word

Emerald is graded by a standard no other gem uses: the internal garden is accepted, because a chromium-grown beryl cannot come up clean. What never varies is the green.

Constant is con + stare, to stand together. Not flawless. Unmoving in the one thing that matters.

What it is carried for

Carried when she must hold her colour with a garden inside her.
Held for steadiness that does not require perfection.