You Can Ask The Flowers
"A focus object, something that carries a strong emotional connection to the subject. Blood would be traditional, but Eleanor suggests that items touched during moments of profound emotion can serve the same purpose."
Her fingers moved instinctively to the simple silver locket hanging around her neck, a piece of jewelry she had worn since childhood that contained a pressed flower from her grandmother's garden in Boston. It wasn't connected to Damien, but it carried decades of her own emotional history, every moment of longing for something beyond the narrow confines of her spinster existence.
"This might work," she said, lifting the locket with trembling hands. "It represents everything I wa