practicality

She looked up from poring over the large, brightly colored medical guide, her face pulled into a worried and distracted frown which only emphasized that she wasn't exactly skin and bones. "Hm? Oh! Yes, I think..." She pulled open a drawer in the desk and rummaged a bit. "Here - will this work? I thought I'd seen these in here earlier..." She held out a dull green ribbon about a quarter of an inch wide and some sixteen inches in length, a dull metal weight at each end. The pewter charms swung gently, the sunlight glancing off the contours of an asiatic dragon pressed into the metal.