Oxidized Serpent Opal Necklace

The village had stopped burying its dead after the third body disappeared.

Beyond the blackthorn woods, a woman lived alone in a cottage where candles burned through the night and ravens gathered on the roof.

An oxidized silver serpent curled around the opal at her throat, its colors shifting like fire beneath dark water.

At midnight, someone knocked three times.

A young man stood outside, pale and trembling.

“They say you can speak to the dead.”

She studied him in the candlelight.

“Sometimes.”

“My mother told me to find you.”

The woman went still.

“Your mother has been dead for twenty years.”

Sterling Silver and Opal 

16” chain

 *black & white images with models not true to size