Chapter I — The Loss of Meaning
Brilliance Was Never the Problem
They perfected the stone, but somewhere between transaction and tradition, the feeling behind it began to fracture.
The diamond did not lose its light. The journey lost its meaning.
It Was the Journey
The problem was never beauty. It was the path: broken trust, invisible origins, lost time, and relationships that ended too soon.
The old journey moved diamonds. It did not preserve meaning.