Welcome back to the daily prompts. The third for this wee...

Welcome back to the daily prompts. The third for this week.

Heart, lock and key: Picture prompt

The heart-shaped stone was clean, the scratched markings clear if unintelligible. The ornate, patinated key shone, as did the separate, unattached-to-anything lock. A silver ribbon loosely tied the three objects together.

The sigh of a memory breathed at the back of the antique dealer’s mind, and died again. He looked at the young woman who had laid the heart and its fellows on the glass counter ...