What if life was as interesting in real life as it was in my head?

So, finals have been over for a week, and I should start ramping up the posting more and more often. Classes start for me in a few days, so posting here is a great way to not do work. The outside world has been great. Spent time with family and seeing 90's bands and spending time with friends. Life doesn't get better than that.

But what if life was more interesting?

Interesting isn't always better, or worse. Its different than "better." I see better as things are relaxed, without headaches or pressing worries. Interesting, however, is different. Interesting is a puzzle, a mystery, a game or a maze. Interesting is when something happens that will be the seed of a story. Interesting is when people come up to you, and with all earnestness and speak to you in a foreign language, and then walk calmly back to their car and drive off.

See, things like that are interesting.

See, the wife (more on her later. We aren't legally married, but will be soon. Its just easier and well, right, to call her that). The wife and I were out eating outside on Sunday. There was a music festival here in our city, so there were people from all over, so when a car pull up to us, I wasn't shocked. When a young girl came up to me, I was put off just a little, but smiled and waited for what I thought would be a request for directions. Instead, she looked at me and said, "De Shall Mal."

See, interesting.

It drove me insane for twenty or thirty minutes strait. It wasn't a language I could remember hearing, it wasn't one I recognized, and Google failed me. So what do I do when something interesting happens?

I think up a story about it.

What if a man heard something she shouldn't? What if he heard something that brought him into a world of spies or magic or aliens? What if the message wasn't for him,  but his interference changes worlds? What if that change was for the better? For the worse?

See, that's why I write. These are the "what if's" that drive me to the keyboard.

So, I think I am going to post the story that was born by a lost girl's question. Its a what if that's just to good to pass up.