And I saw

And I saw a lady, tall and eligant older woman, her arms outstretched towards me holding in her grasp what looked like books. I walked closer, keen to see what was placed in my path. I had plenty of problems to solve and answers that normally formed around bloodshed both figurative and actual. I was tired, dog tired, so what now did fate set before me?

‘I bring you words!’ she said as though this very statement would solve my every plight.

‘Words?’ I asked, incredulity etched through my voice.

‘Yes.’

‘Right; and if that’s not enough?’

‘Smile,’ she whispered, ‘smile.’

And with that, she turned, and was gone.

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