"Vee, you must preserve that bracelet well. I've told you before, it might save your life when the time comes," Grace insisted, her tone grave.

"Eric's grandmother gave me that bracelet," Grace recounted, her voice carrying the weight of history. "His grandmother mentioned that it had been passed down for generations in the Hernandez family, always in the Hernandez daughters-in-laws' hands.

"Now that I think about it, that Hernandez progenitor must have brought it from Lazzla to King City."

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