The Lost Mine

While shopping at a Sunday market, you come across a widow trying to sell her husband’s belongings. Out of curiosity, you start up a conversation with her. Her husband, Parker, had grown up an orphan and faced many difficulties throughout his life. Without any experience, he was offered a highly paid job as a worker in a remote mine. Shocked but overjoyed, he threw himself into his work. One day he returned from the mine with a purple crystal and quit his job. He became reserved, refusing to say why …