someone: are those... hearts? mairon: .....they're birds. someone: but what if they were hearts. mairon: i suppose it might make them a token of love, haha. angmar: [shuffling awkwardly]
they're made of abalone shell chips in the shapes of birds, actually! just... fat birds. which ends up looking like hearts. in the fic, angmar gave them to him when he was still unwraithy :'>