Unlike other flowers, this one must be grown in the dark. It needs water every now and then like most plant-life, and seems to perk up when you play it the guitar, but what gets it to glow it’s soft, sun-bright yellow color are the secrets it feeds on.
The delicate beauty was a gift from your grandmother as a seed. A golden pebble that once bestowed into a suitable pot in the dark began to grow only once you accidentally revealed the first secret to it: you had loathed your grandmother for leaving you nothing but a worthless seed. However, after it’s true purpose came to light, like a waterfall the secrets poured from you with haste.
Now, you’ve told it all you can give to sustain the radiant elegance of its shimmer, but the light is growing dim. Perhaps you might think it’s time to let the rarity go and find another once-in-a-lifetime plant, but the secrets you tell this flower help it to produce a heart-shaped fruit that when consumed can cure any ailment.
People come to you from far and wide, placing their name on an ever-growing list to procure from you this precious fruit. As the names become longer, the flower dims. The biggest secret of them all is that no one knows it is these very secrets that grow the curious plant. Slowly, the patrons become agitated, visiting more regularly, begging for their life-saving fruit to be delivered, but you can’t. Supply cannot keep up with demand and you must find more secrets to feed the plant.
Moving the plant is not an option for travel exposes it to dangerous weather that may burn or snap it’s fragile stems. So those secrets must be deliver to it from the lips of their owner. And you cannot give away these precious truths so willingly.
Faced with a choice, you wonder how to obtain new secrets. Fearing the decisions that must be reached to promote more growth, you receive a knock on the door. It is no regular visitor, but your very best friend. Asking for their help is an option, but so is dragging them to the depths and forcing out their secrets.
What do you do?
Source: You Are What You Write
