FML. Right once I get the extension, I suddenly get plans that we are going out of state for the weekend. Fantastic.
Well...I guess I'll just give you the cut-and-dry plot of what I was going to submit.
Well, what my story was going to be was that a man named Lirale sits in a bar, where he finds a hooded minstrel telling a tale of a man of pure and golden heart who was decieved by a woman whom he loved most. His love was a trecherous witch, and stole his own heart and condemned him to live forever as a walking, heartless, corpse, to be disregarded as filth and hideousness.
Lirale then proceeds to buy a gin from the bartender, where then the hooded minstrel sits beside him.
They converse with each other, they chat about the crime in the large city they are in, and the hooded minstrel leaves him with that "Those who are cast in the greatest shadow reflect the greatest light, and those who are given the greatest light cast the greatest shadow."
The hooded minstrel then leaves after drinking the last of his gin and Lirale follows him in curiosity, only to find that he disappears from view.
Later in the night, Lirale begins to make his way to a neighboring portside town, where he then sees the hooded minstrel being mugged by a highway man. Lirale rushes in to aid the man, and in the fray the highway man takes out a dagger and pierces Lirale's heart, leaving him in a near death state.
The hooded minstrel then releases his cloak to show a mangled and skeleton-like visage and proceeds to dismember the highway man. After literally ripping the man to pieces, he takes a serrated dagger and cuts out the mans heart as well as Lirale's.
Using his own demonic powers, he puts the highway's heart inside of Lirale's, giving life back to Lirale. He tells Lirale that he was the pure hearted man, and his old features return to their previous state, due to Lirale's sacrifice of his own life for that of the minstrel's. He states that Lirale's selfless sacrifice for a man who had been so vile had reversed the spell that had been cast upon him, for there was another man in the hate-infested world that also had a pure heart.
He smiles faintly as his years of age begin to come at him instantly, and soon he turns to dust. Lirale, stunned at the turn of events, uncovers the cloak that the man had worn to find a golden heart surrounded in a heap of dust. On it, it reads, "A body soon turns to dust, but the actions that formed it last eternal."
Lirale takes the heart and gives it to a homeless child he meets along the road. A gift, that may in turn through the actions of the boy, shape the lives of many generations to come.
"Maybe then the world can see a brighter day," says Lirale as he walks off into the coming daybreak.
As I said, it was really all a matter of time, but the extension really proved to be useless, but I couldn't let this just be an idea, so I think I'll leave it here so maybe I can add onto this story in the future.
I'm sad that I wasn't able to finish it, and I'll understand if you count it as a loss.
