Usually, if it comes to crystals, we admire their natural beauty...They sparkle, they shine,and reflect rays of light in every facet. We do not know much about the conditions, that lead to their creation. It takes thousands or even millions of years, to set the stage. Heat, pressure and other unpredictable forces of nature in exactly the right measurement...

But, what if theres more to it..?

There is no scientific „proof" of the wisdom, some of these crystals do contain. Ancient wisdom, gathered through aeons to help mankind cope with nowadays life.

This story tells about a very special crystal, with a „life" of its own. It literary enlightens an ordinary persons thoughts and brings a change, long overdue.

A life, changed forever...and and a not so „imaginary" friend...

Frodo/OC

Faint Spark from Within

Ch.1

Life is just...or so they say

One first look at her, and you could tell, that she wasnt smiling easily. She was friendly enough though, but that was essential in her job as a sales clerk.

So she kept bustling around the shelves, always trying to be of any help to customers, or even sell something. It wasnt that she hated what she was doing, but the shops atmosphere didnt really add to her joy.

Since her first day here things began to go downwards, and even more so, as she seemed to be at the mercy of her bosses mood-swings. The creative work, mostly making jewellery or repairing it, was only a little ray of light in an otherwise dim day at work.

It was not easy to guess her age, and her slender appearance and long dark and open hair made her look younger anyhow. There was something about her, but this air of reservedness felt like a wall to keep of every unwanted attention.

Nothing could have prepared her for that February afternoon.

It had been a saturday afternoon, and she was at the desk, leafing through a book about fossils and minerals. No customers to tend to, and nothing else, that would have been important right now.

As the door opened, her eyes caught sight of her employer, and a slight feeling of threat began to settle on her. First she closed the book and then jumped out of her seat.

Strange enough, he didnt even seem to have noticed her relaxed appearance, when he entered, but that was not it. Now she was really worried. It was not like him at all, to stay away for more than a whole week, without caring for his shop, and then reappear on a saturday afternoon, and only two hours before closing time.

Something was definitely wrong...

„Miss Tusayan...theres something, I need to speak to you about..."

Without knowing, what was to come, she sat back down and just looked at him.

„I am sorry...but I am unable to employ you any longer...finances are..."

...and with that, she tore her gaze away, as if to study something quite interesting on the opposite wall. She didnt intend to play drama-queen, nor was she ready to react in any reasonable way at all.

Financial matters...well...thinking about that, she couldnt help but let a small, ironic smile tug at the corners of her mouth. Just about three weeks prior to that present scene, her boss had asked her to skip her day off and work the entire week. He had gone on a weeks holiday, and she dutifully kept the shop open and running.And sure enough...whenever she wanted to take a week off, mr. employer had other plans.

Eleven months, and most of it spent with running the shop entirely alone, with no way to take a weeks holiday even...and to make matters worse...the money, which would have been due to substitute for unspent holiday time, wasnt paid, because law was on his side...

And so it happened, that this was her last day in those holy walls.

Eleven month...down the drain.

What now..?

This was, when Francine Willa Tusayan swore solemny to herself, that this wouldnt be the end of the world for her...

Well...at least, it wouldnt keep her from visiting that mineral-show next week. She was looking forward to go for quite some time now.

Regarding her own financial matters...that would turn out soon enough, and had never kept her from going.

Life is just...or so they say.

One couldnt possibly know the finds or possibilities there...!