Horses and Hearts

Aberdeen, Scotland, 1952 — Harbour Morning. Pieter van der Meer kept a boxed Dutch silver spoon — a Keltum Gouden Koetslepel, its handle cast with the royal coach and six proud horses. He bought it in Amsterdam before sailing to Aberdeen, thinking of Moira Sinclair, who always waited at the harbour café, her tea cooling as the tide turned. When he placed the spoon before her, she smiled — not for its shine, but for the promise it carried across the sea. Years later, reshaped into a ring, its silver still gleams with that moment — a love returned, its grace carried in silver and in horses, bound forever in the quiet rhythm of their journey home.