Alright ..I'll do it .
...anything their hearts desired .
They were gleefully wringing their hands and grimacing so , that they'd almost missed sensing the thickening & almost palpable silence filling the room . Furtively glancing at eachother , they slowly turned towards the doorway where the fairy godmother was looming , with eyebrows raised and the countenance of fury personified !
They scampered past her cursing , nearly bowling her over , and away they vanished .
She had been returning to fetch an item she'd forgotten , and saw the mud , leaves & sticks they had tracked across her porch .
She gave a heavy sigh , and set about the work of cleaning up the slop .
As she was cleaning , down on her hands and knees , she thought back to the time - earlier that year , when her Prince Charming had promised to build a stone walkway for her , to keep down the mess in the house .
He'd chosen , instead , to buy a horse , repair his armor and go off on a quest .
She thought to herself "Sometimes that man just makes me so mad !!!" .
Just at that moment , in another hemisphere in distant climes , he was thinking about dragons & gold & the heat of the day ; and above the crackle of the campfire he was heard to say "It will be good when the Winter rains come." .
