Shard takes off her hat and takes something out of it. It's necklace made out small, thumb size conch shells and pieces of red pencil urchin spines. The necklace's center piece was an ivory white, palm-sized sand dollar and it was held together with glittery golden threads, Shard looked at it wistfully at it before setting it on the organ's music shelf.
Shard starts out hesitantly, with a simple melody. But, as she gains confidence, the necklace begins to glow and the inside of the cathedral darkens. It fills with smell of the sea and story begins to play out in the form of shadow figures on the wall. The two main figures that the story centered around had glowing eyes. One, a male, had golden eyes. The other was female and she had whites ones.
The story started out innocently enough, similar to the melody Shard was starting out on. The female was a young girl, around four or five and she was visiting the beach with her parents. She wandered away from them to a rocky out crop and had found a tidal pool full of living things from the sea. She watching them and singing to herself when the male, who was a boy of nine or ten at the time, came up to her.
The two of them played across the walls and on the land and in the sea. They spent many days like this, until it came for the girl to leave with her parents. When the girl told the boy, he pulled a golden light from his chest and offered it to her. She denied his gift though and his eyes dimmed for moment before bighting again as she continued talking to him. He kept the light and motioned for her to stay put prior to standing up and diving into the sea.
When he set the light inside of a large clam for safe keeping before returning to the girl he had left on the beach. He offered her necklace in place of the golden light and she accepted it. Her parents came for her shortly after that and he dove into the sea to hide form them. He watch them leave with her and she turned back to wave at him one last time when her parents weren't looking before they left.
The music Shard was playing on the organ changed from the simple melody to something complex, powerful, and dark. The scene spilt in two to show how time passed for the two main characters. The world ended as the two became teens. The girl's two sisters were born and grew as buildings fell and burned around them. Their parents fought and died before the scene ended.
Meanwhile, the boy fought and struggled against the darkness that invaded the sea but, in the end, he was consumed and changed by it. His once bright eyes became dark and his body became twisted and corrupted. In his final moments before his complete transformation, he struggled to reach the golden light he had locked away, only to fail.
After the two scenes ended, the girl sought out the boy with her sisters in tow and monsters. She wanted sanctuary from him and he gave it to her but at a price. He destroyed the monsters chasing them but for his continued protection she was to become his queen and all it entailed. He offered her the glowing light again and revealed to her that the necklace he had given to her was the key to opening the clam it was hidden inside of.
Again she refused him, like she had as a child. Back then, she was to young to accept his offer. Now, it was because he had change from the boy that she had grown to love all those years ago and for the worse. This infuriated him and he threaten her sisters in order to bend her to his will.
That was a bad move on his part and she fought him to protect them. White wings of light sprung from her back and the seas raged around them. He tried to bind her, but she broke them and stuck back. He suppressed her with a curse that went into her very bones. She managed to strike back at him before the curse was completed and sunk a glowing sword of light into his chest. He broke off the curse to grab his chest in pain. The wound didn’t kill him though, but he retreated from them then and disappeared into the sea.
The scene focused on the girl as Shard’s playing wound down and went back to the simple melody. The first scene starts out of the girl hugging her sisters before taking their hands to lead them away. One of the sisters stop to pick something up that the waves washed up onto the shore. It turned out to be the necklace and she showed it to her older sister. She had lost it during the battle and she turned to throw it away after taking it from her younger sister, but she changed her mind and took a second look at it.
The focus zoomed in on her face as she remembered the past. She shed a tear of light that floated away before putting the necklace in her pocket. The focus followed the little light and scene changed to that of the boy who had become corrupted by the dark tides of the sea. He was bleeding from the wound that wouldn’t heal and was pacing back and forth angrily in spite of it. In his fury and pain, he grabbed the clam holding the golden light and was about smash it when the light found him and flashed in his face.
The light showed him the girl and the memories they shared as children before going into his chest. It let him know she still loved him in spite of what he had done to her. White light shone from the wound in his chest and he became filled with remorse for what he had done. With his anger gone, he hugged the clam holding the golden light to his chest and took up the struggle against the darkness inside of himself once more. Music and the scene fading with him waiting for her to return.
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