A Nearly Impossible Stipulation
Inspired by Day 7 of AWC's June Story Seeds: Invent a story where your character loses a cherished item and then searches for it.
You will find it beyond the stars, he said. Typical, that he would be so petty even beyond the grave. He never intended for me to have it back. But he was so enraptured with his public reputation for fairness that he still willed it back to me, with a condition so impossible that I’d never have it anyways. But I’m not so easily cowed as I used to be, and I am not so used to missing it that I can live without it. So I’ll go into the beyond and I will not rest until it’s mine again.