Kiki tells me it's Algiz. The shield. A rune to ward against evil.

[And she still remembers the night — exactly four months ago, now — when she'd first come into possession of that charm, not because she'd believed in any sort of power it might confer but because Kiki was selling them for a cause she'd wanted to support. But that wasn't the only charm she'd been given that night, and that one is still tucked away safely in the coat she's not wearing this evening, safe and sound with the few meager trinkets she has to call her own.

It's not that she believes in the rune's power, though she also doesn't necessarily doubt Kiki's conviction that it has it. It's not a gesture of belief that made her reach to drape it around his neck. But she also doesn't believe in any inherent evil in birds, and so maybe that goes both ways — that maybe if there is some to be found in the ones he encounters, then maybe there's likewise some protection to be found in that charm.

Either way, the power isn't the important part. The important part is that she's the one who put it there.]

I've kept it for four months. But I think it'll do more good with you than it would for me.