Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25170312-20151102215252/@comment-25170312-20151102233708

AlwaysStayIrrelevant wrote:

The spirit of the dandelion field demanded a human sacrifice... The speaker for the evil spirit threatened to hurt Daniel's family if he didn't do the ritual needed. Daniel had no idea what was going on but loved his family so he accepted a little pain each day to keep them safe. After this horrible thing happened, Daniel was still giving blood for his family, fearing for their lives after what he witnessed ^ this is exactly right.

I would say that the spirit doesn't necessarily want anything else, but Daniel assumes he has to keep doing it. You make a very good point about the roses. I was thinking that Daniel doesn't pick a rose every day, but saves them until they dry up or something. Maybe I'll say at the end that the rose Daniel has looks kind of old. I could also mention that they find dried up roses amongst his things.

I didn't even think about winter, or the fact that roses don't grow consistently for nine months. I'll have to figure something out with that. Maybe it will have to be thorn bushes instead of roses, though that would take away some of the symbolism.

Thank you for your insight! XD