There was once a man who lived in a hut on a mountain.

He would fish and hunt to get food.

One day all the fish and animals disappeared and the man did not have any food for the day.

The man's stomach grumbled and he knew he had to go into town to get food. He began to trek the 20 miles to the village at the base of the mountain.

He arrived at the village and saw many food carts and stands, however he had no money to buy the food, so he hastily drank from a well and went another day without food.

He slept in the street that night and was woken by a partoling militia knight. He was told to sleep somewhere else and get a job.

The man, desperate for food, wandered the town in search of someone who could help him. After looking for many hours, he found a building marked "Friendly Arm Inn" and wandered inside.

He approached the innkeeper and asked him where he could find work. The innkeeper looked at him hesitantly and said, "The Priests down at the town church are looking for helpers who will be paid in bread and clean water."

The man thanked the innkeeper and walked over to the town church, inspected it and went in.

The man was greeted by a priest dressed in robes of silk. The priest was friendly and hurriedly walked up to him with a smile. The man said to the priest, "I have heard that in return for work at the church, one may be paid in bread and water." The priest looked at him, delighted, and said, "Indeed there is, follow me." He followed the priest.

The priest showed the man cobwebs and dust that covered the church and said he would need to clean them all and then he would be given the bread and water. 

Then the priest looked at the man and spoke in a very serious tone, "Whatever you do, do not touch the blue stone on the pedestal. It is a gift that fell from the heavens, sent by God himself." The man looked at the pedestal. The room seemed to turn dark and his eyes focused on the stone, as if drawn to it. The priest looked at the man, "Is that clear?" The man replied, "Yes, of course."

As the man cleared the cobwebs with the broom he kept looking at the stone, wondering if he could just take it and sell it for food. After many hours of working he was almost done. He could almost taste the bread and water that he would soon have access to. 

The man was almost done and then looked up at the church ceiling and saw that it was covered in cobwebs. He sighed and realized how many more hours he had to go until he was done. His stomach grumbled and he looked back at the blue, glowing stone. The priest was nowhere to be seen so he approached it. It seemed to glow brighter as he got closer. Then, he grabbed it and began walking towards the door. He opened it and ran toward the town. 

He stumbled down the road in search of a jewelers store that he could sell the stone to. His stomach grumbled and the townspeople began to look at him strangely. He had put the stone in his pocket so no one could see it but they still glared at him with judging eyes, watching his every move with scrutiny. "Why are these people staring at me?", he thought.

The man arrived at the jewelers store and walked in. The jeweler sat at his desk fiddling with some sort of contraption. He was an old man with a white beard and white hair and paid the man no attention when he walked in the door.