With the bet on the line, Eleanor threw herself into the work harder than ever.
The preliminary theme: "The Sea."
Most minds jumped straight to blue Faith and Nadia both pushed her toward a sapphire or blue diamond centerpiece.
Eleanor could tell, even now, how much the Heart of the Ocean from Titanic still dominated people's imagination.
A genuine classic, sure. But that was exactly the problem anything referencing it too closely risked reading as imitation, no matter how it was reimagined.
She spent a full day thinking it through before finally picking up her pen.
She worked until exhaustion took over, crashing at her desk between sessions, and somehow the design kept coming together smoother than she'd dared hope.
Over at CL, once Cassandra learned Eleanor had entered the same co
