Part 8 What Happened to the Stone That Never Shined
That stone never shined.
It never caught anyone’s eye.
It was never praised.
It stayed quietly
at the back of the shelf.
The Shadow Merchant
never tried to sell it.
There was no special reason.
He simply
could not find a reason to sell it.
A stone that does not shine
cannot be explained easily.
It brings no instant result.
It has no obvious use.
And so,
no one asked for it.
Still,
the stone never left the garden.
At night,
under the moonlight,
it simply remained there.
Sometimes,
animals slept beside it.
They did not step on it.
They did not avoid it.
They did not treat it as special.
Watching this,
the Shadow Merchant realized something.
The stone was not rejected.
It never needed to be chosen.
The stone made no claims.
It did not say
“I am useful.”
It did not say
“I have value.”
And yet,
by simply being there,
it changed the atmosphere.
The Shadow Merchant
quietly placed the stone
near the center of the garden.
Not in a place to stand out.
But not in the way either.
From that day,
the air of the garden shifted.
Those who rushed
did not stay long.
Those who waited
naturally stopped.
The Shadow Merchant was certain.
The stone that never shined
was exactly
what the garden needed.
This is why Pz exists
as something that does nothing.
It does not need to shine.
It does not need attention.
It does not need evaluation.
And yet,
by being there,
it gently selects its people.
If you are carrying something now
that no one seems to notice,
it is not a mistake.
Some things are needed
even when they do not shine.
This story was written to sell something.
But it is also about
what happens to things
that are never chosen.
As a place that accepts this,
Pz quietly remains nearby.
