Ouroboros Gate Necklace

She’d spent thirty years searching for the man who vanished with her father’s ancient manuscript.

Now, deep beneath a monastery in Vienna, she stood before an iron gate guarded by a silent figure in black.

“No one passes without the key.”

She lifted the pendant from her throat. Two dragons, each devouring the other’s tail, entwined in an endless circle.

The guardian stepped aside.

Beyond the gate stood a locked cabinet bearing the same twin dragons. She pressed the pendant into the ancient mechanism.

Stone shifted. The cabinet opened.

Inside lay the missing manuscript and a photograph of herself as a little girl.

On the back, in her father’s handwriting:

Endings are often disguised as beginnings.

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Sterling Silver chain 16" to 18" adjustable 

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