Feathers
Eurydice wore a feather in her hair and a feathered ring on her hand. She'd picked up the ring while scrounging for food, while the hair decoration she found on the ground one day. She'd liked them enough to keep them.
Others sometimes saw them as tacky, unneeded, but to her the trinkets were beautiful. Eurydice felt a connection to the birds and their feathers—the birds were never still, always flying from one place to the next, leaving only traces of themselves behind in feathers.
But their feathers protected them from the cold and dark, and she couldn't help but dream of what it would be like, having a warm coat around you even in the hardest of times.
As she dreamed of things that would never be, Eurydice pondered the meaning of feathers. It was said they were symbols of hope, and maybe that was why she clung to them, even as feathers slipped through fingers in the wind.