It's a femur! However, someone has with great craftsmanship turned it into a flute.
(It goes doot doot doot.)
"I had the opportunity to return to the Ninth House recently. This is an heirloom of our House, albeit a little favored one. It belonged to an ancestor of my mother's, Pelles Novena."
'Belonged' is a slippery word in this context.
"He entered into a rather unusual marriage with a woman of the Seventh House, who crafted it herself after his death. She returned to her House of birth, but left this behind as weregild."
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(It goes doot doot doot.)
"I had the opportunity to return to the Ninth House recently. This is an heirloom of our House, albeit a little favored one. It belonged to an ancestor of my mother's, Pelles Novena."
'Belonged' is a slippery word in this context.
"He entered into a rather unusual marriage with a woman of the Seventh House, who crafted it herself after his death. She returned to her House of birth, but left this behind as weregild."