The blue badge

Original fiction extract.

The costume assistant had put a blue badge on the wrong jacket. Dina asserted that it belonged to her character, though the new actor said he had been given it at the first rehearsal. Neither wanted to begin the scene without it. The assistant found a photograph from the previous week and held it beside both costumes. Dina was right about the badge, but the jacket she was wearing had acquired someone else’s belt. They exchanged the two small items before returning to the stage.

Identify a word or phrase from the extract which suggests the same idea as the words in bold:

Dina stated firmly that the blue badge belonged to her character.