Zoe rolled her eyes. "Math? Science?"

Zoe reluctantly agreed. The next day, she sat with her mom during breakfast without looking at her phone. Her mom, surprised, opened up about a stressful project at work. Zoe listened—really listened. By the end of the week, her mom had started leaving little thank-you notes in Zoe’s lunchbox.

She gave Zoe a small pouch. "Find a small object that represents someone you cherish. Give it to them with no occasion, no expectation. Just because."

Zoe walked back into Elara’s cottage a month later, transformed. She hugged her grandmother tightly.

“AMS,” Zoe whispered. “Attention. Memory. Sentiment. You don’t just cherish people by feeling it. You cherish them by doing it.”