Words can....

Scatter,
Shatter,
and what not...

Just as I was re-discovering the charm of a carefully planned swagger came a thoughtful word.
Never saw it coming,I swear, not even through the very corner-est of my eye. Though you might say, rightly, that I "asked for it". Oh yes, I did.

But all I'd asked was a simple, innocent, non-fishin-for-compliments kind of, curiosity laden query (query sounds so much more professional than question. of course question has more Indy Jones swing to it..."quest i am on"...)

Or was it a question cloaked as a query? The response did come swinging in, fast and silent. The answer a word which gently nudges the swagger; just that little bit to leave one tottering on the brink of nothing!!

So, does a simple, innocent, non-fishin-for-compliments kind of, curiosity laden question deserve a response of such magnitude? One totally unexpected and absolutely necessary? No and Yes; No because of the later and Yes for the former.

After all all quests need their snake-pits and Arcs and Blood, sweat and tears (sob)..their unexpected events. Quests are not necessary, they are just an Inevitable Happening. And what better potion to have in your rucksack than a Word. One with power enough to sweet-talk snakes in pits or outside, fetch Arcs, make us bleed and sweat and cut through swaggers to leave even Indy in tears....soul-wrenching stuff.

As for me...well...plannin nother swagger for the morrow.
And WORD, the next time it's going to take you more than a nudge............