As soon as Meadow picked up the ring, a girl with thick wavy black hair appeared before her, crouching in the dirt with her in a white cotton nightgown. "Nora's brother made it. He was the blacksmith."
As soon as he ring left her hand, the girl disappeared; Elvira perked. "What happened?" She looked around, and upon seeing nothing looked back to Meadow in confusion. "I don't see anything."
Elvira stared at Meadow in silence for almost a minutes before she broke into a large grin. "This is the first time in two hundred plus years someone's seen me!"
"We could talk either way..." Meadow said, pulling the draw string from her hoodie and looping it into the ring and tying it behind her neck, letting it touch her skin so she could still see Elvira, "Maybe we can figure out a way for you to have a living body for a day..."
"You're my first true blue friend...I'd do damn near anything for you..." She answered. She made a small noise, "If that...doesn't creep you out or nothin', that is..."
"I'll deal with that tomorrow after I get back from doing some shopping..." She said softly, smiling faintly. She made a noise and sat down, "Guess I'll go to bed early.."