SciFi/Fantasy – September 28

“Nicolas Flamel reached the age of eighty. He spent the last years of his life writing books on alchemy. He carefully settled his affairs and planned how he was to be buried: at the end of the nave of Saint Jacques la Boucherie. The tombstone to be laid over his body had already been made. On this stone, in the middle of various figures, there was carved a sun above a key and a closed book.”

Nicholas Flamel was born on this date in 1300.

Some years later, he bought a book that described the process of transmuting base metal to gold, using the legendary philosopher’s stone, and the distillation from that stone the elixir of life, whereby one could achieve immortality.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which someone wants to kill your protagonist for a secret that is utterly meaningless.

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