Current

A seventy-million-year-old shell still throwing living colour — the past made present.

Ammolite · The Law of Perpetuality

Family: Fossilised aragonite nacre of ammonite shell
Hardness: 3.5–4.5 on the Mohs scale
Colour: Full-spectrum iridescence in plated dragon-skin panels
Signature: One of very few biogenic gems; found only along Alberta's Bearpaw formation

The stone read as the word

Ammolite is the nacre of a creature that died before the dinosaurs did, and it still flashes red and green when you turn it. What it shows you is happening now, in your hand, out of something ancient.

Current is currere, to run — what is running at this moment. This gem is the proof that an old thing can be entirely present.

What it is carried for

Carried to keep the estate present, not historical.
Held for old work that still throws light today.