Once there was a boy whose heart was born untethered to the world.
Those that came each took a tiny piece as a blessing upon their paths
of spirit. But accrued over time the bits did add up until all of it
was gone.  The boy fell off the Earth.  And in its place where the
heart should have been was now a poison; a curse so profound yet
subtle that even to touch it was to forever mar what it was meant to
heal. From innocent wishes to broken dreams the darkness of the heart
spread until it engulfed all that ever was