Braxtyn scratches supple cream skin forehead and vigorously voices his inner reflections.
“Where can I make some sense of this wretched appalling ….
I mean I know I have my entire life to experience..
But gosh I’m presumed or reputed to be superbrain and the like.”
Prodigy he was and mental acuity his platinum calling card but even the most endowed of us can topple from the apex in the most entangled convoluted pattern.
“Well, the things I been credited with just 17 years of age… but this wretched thing … whoops.”
Beguiling chortles from every species outside some utter squeaking bleat noises.
“Over the years those mother earth sounds an oddment.
Blessed my sister and I resemble whales and dolphins.”
Muses Braxtyn.
“We can spot hints of phoniness and fakes miles away.”
Folds of skin rumpled a tad.
Rustic dwelling in conjunction with the spectacular decor one associates with urban universalisms.
Braxtyn being a compulsive rambler would as an inveterate reader of unwieldy tomes grappling with species of every genus, a to z of the rusticated pets.
BRAX his abbreviation which winsomely he adapted and adjusted.
Lambs, donkeys, mules, goats, cats and so on so forth.
He loved groans AND SO FOURTH.
“Wish my Sister, Blessing, would reappear, like me she longs to linger in in parks, to wander and explore, rummage in bookstores where things adventitious mysteriously drop on those dusty laminate floors.
Blessing is a blessing to everyone.”
Braxtyn …. pondered.
Whilst he peers into PONDS.
Blessing two they “POND-ERR.
Similar to ERR “D”-“NOTE”-ING
Blessing invariably would shed her radiant peepers on even the most convoluted conundrum and decimate it with her clarity!
“The intricacies of this byzantine thorn in the side?”
Braxtyn GETTING DOWN TO BRAX TACKS.
GROAN.
Concessions to a chronic stack of circumstances are as frustrating as a failed and foiled loan application from a miserly shylock style financial institute.
“I heard eerie echos external and they emanated from a higher altitude.
Flying exotic birds winging the malachite handles of sun reflecting windows and maybe spitting at them.”
Despite my best endeavours, this obnoxious weed on paper is making a colossal twit of me and powerless I am in the process despite my brainiest of brainy bow and arrows. and goodness knows there have been multiple forays at this fiendish bug, some have been profound, others scatterbrained and wildly off target.
After a spell of prolonged suppressed pet lip noise ensued.
“Oh Blessing you alone guru and gifted genius would decipher this hideous brain torment.”
Braxtyn the gregarious one had relatives far and wide though sincere sent me from one poles apart extremity to another with mysterious misdirections though not on purposeI
There was this circular journey going round in his head which like his face appeared inhabited by forests of ideas, rushes down gold laden gullies and ravines, every contortion not just of the natural world but towns of various magnitude and inhabitant size.
“Cannot even begin to fathom this awful thing wriggling like a virus in my mind.
Goodness me will some person or other that into this thing called knowledge.”
This psyche stumper became more visible comparable to a pergola with its vertical post, pillars support cross beam confusion.
Hints, CLUES, endeavors had yields of EMINUS ON REPORT CARD.
Who put the CARD IN CARD-INAL I refer to the flying species.
In this cerebral laden dwelling by himself over the weekend as both his, Braxtyn’s parents bid a hasty dash and dart in a quick in a magic infused minibreak from the at a pinch burdens layered cumbersome loads of life.
A rainbow eucalyptus stunning intense beam focussed and suffused with splatters and batters of intriguing hues gave the impression of sequestre of unspecified yet unique entity or thingamajig to this habitat.
Environments captive insinuate in a wily shadow trail in Awesome and Audacious’s dwelling as there was an azurite misty confluence that verge on brink whimsical nosy parkerism.
Awesome in alliance with Audacious managed to squint over the shoulders maybe puckish to an extent to contemplate what their torch light beam eye offspring or indeed equally torch light beam eye parents might extract mutually.
Blessed and Braxtyn roguishly reversed the process too when their progenitors had their guard down.
And the query you the inscrutable reader might submit is this,
and others ensnared by this sinusoidal narrative.
What is this obstacle, conundrum, lob sided neck pain weighing these
phenomenal brains down.
“The Brain, IT HASN’T LET ME DOWN so far.
I sometimes YODEL when I want to enliven, think of my FAVOURITE SISTER and our favourite FOODS, TREATS.
And is this wretched thing which we my sister and colleagues enthuse about.
“CRYPTIC CROSSWORDS.
There is this thing …. I hear rustling and galloping about this nature park residing in our megalopolis.”
Brainy Brax stymied.
It must have been rather PUZZLING. Hadn’t a clue what to do or solve this infernal plight
Despite the hints.”
A clue which read as follows
“Lively Species Spotted Where Profuse Growth Is.”
Tiny number of words.
Three words with number structure 5-2-5
Braxtyn polymath veered between a distorted kaleidoscope of twinkling alternative angles
and wild notions of how an ecosystem furnished with riotous tinges could be germane to a riddle.
Why did Braxtyn cast one of his suspecting tidal wave expressive eyes on his parents shifty sheepish demeanor?
Out of exasperation he caterwauled:
🎩🎩I’LL HAVE ANOTHER GO AT SPECIES IN THREES.🎩🎩
Whatever!
This crossword contest wasn’t run of the mill regular and Braxtyn was acutely aware of his parents mediocrity in that province.
“Is this Son-Et-Lumiere?
There’s a tumble dryer torsion tone in my head …. species emitting every imaginable clamour.”
Brax once more.
Was he a SPOILED BRAX with his fetishes.
GROAN.
He, the genius in a concatenation of recreations with his sister who was aptly named BLESSING.
The person, Braxtyn,
conceded his life began in earnest the auspicious day of his sister’s birth.
But Blessing often alluded to things as a CURSE.
Her monumental majestic aura had this silver tide infectious ripple.
It purified stifled atmospheres.
“Blessed can you shed your chakra illumination on this bug infested bedamned clue.
My skull is in a seesaw, almost playground plank.”
In a parallel orbit is the most succinct portrayal of their spruce home with its intrusive yet innocuous pets winking, blinking in a fly by day and night regimen.
“Are there creatures on the prowl or winging outside?”
Blessing quipped.
“Something concocted in relation to reverberations outside.
Plastic. Mother and father have never elaborated but kept this shroud.
They nodded in agreement.
“On another tack our elders had this sneaky sheep countenance that gets my GOAT.!
Please ignore puerile synonym.
It was if they were eluding, escaping from some convoluted tangle.”
Blessing fraught with an electric spark smirk.
“Oh do you think they know or they have suspected….
NTHING! Yet I mean.”
Awesome the nickname audacious gave her husband of so many years
Audacious kept going.
“We have only just arrived in anticipation but this lodge has a stultifying reek.
But maybe it’s the aftermath of our long trek.”
Awesome often excogitated about dice spins and upshots.
“Did Braxtyn who is highly in tune with other's vibrations not even COTTON ON.”
THE FABRIC OF HER CHEW ON.
Above line might add MEAT to this
whirligig of a who did what and when
As for the clue setter Sneaky Tweaky, well there are quite a few rules regarding secrecy and sleights of hand that clog his files and scruples if they possess any!
Included in the mix was a broad information probe which is quite tough but there was only a limited timeframe.
A submission date that pressurised participants.
This competition also involves identifying pets in a visual ambiguous pencil scratch panel.
“And don’t we grasp the brass and brazen irony of that fiendish trap trick and trip challenge as a whole.”
Meanwhile back at Braxtyn and Blessed’s domicile the volume grew exponentially..
“ I sense something peculiar about the home of my formative years.”
Braxtyn assembling a total electric charge intercity interlink array of heterogeneous notions.
“Things seem so switched on and plastic.”
But coexistence was the key to every door in this address where envelopes and letters had this STAMP OF AUTHENTICITY.
The heart of the rural and the urbanity of the plural tendencies had in situ roots where these nimble wit analysts were fostered.
A gradual dawning accumulated as a streamed asset tiered with suspicion had this warped stealth of a halloween thriller.
How both Braxtyn and Blessing approached clues could be as unique as they were but even those who had tonnes and tanks of IQ loads
“Have that feeling that our parents were shifty whilst we were attempting that clue…..”
Blessed argued and Braxtyn stared.
“Awesome, this holiday has been an incorrigible bore from its inception.
Guest house, lodge, boarding house, is dull down to the tiniest detail.”
Audacious did mention to her husband.
They had no alternative but to impinge on themselves and the proprietor by fabricating some tall tale and they did.
The usual mysterious emergency call from of course a fictitious fallen family member who were in a quandary and by some strange coincidence had no alternative etc.
The drift of that etc and ad infinitum.
But to resume this baroque and byzantine saga…
“Oh shrieks.” Blessing had an incandescent flash about the pets.
“Am I hallucinating …. did I remember as a child some … vague…. something like a part falling.”
Then her mind went blank.
And some more bleats and baaahs on the out-of-doors
Once more returning to Awesome and Audacious as this fiendish tale unfurls without becoming bogged down in entanglement.
“Well, sneaky let us in on the answers to the clues.
No one was apprised of the substantial contacts between us over a protracted period.
We kept a hush hush low profile.”
Audacious in a bearing of resignation.
When they returned they made contact with the clue setter and he expressed regret for the shabbiness and disappointment of their saturday and sunday escape.
“I’d like to bounce this proposition off you.
Maybe certain rules and regulations were bent.”
Sneaky tweaky said.
“I have another dwelling some distance into hazier habitats at the urban ring fence..
Very few folks have even the dimmest and slimmest know of it.”
Sneaky Tweaky expanded.
“It was a freak stroke of good fortune. Has porcelain and flexi replicas of pets but( casting a shrewdie) I’d hardly be the only one to have such an avid avocation. Beware the bits and pieces.”
Awesome quivered and in turn looked at audacious as if they sensed other people knew about what others sensed.
Would their be a fall off or fall out in any conceivable event.
“Spend a week there at my expense as compensation.”
The couple were elated and could if they wished entice their children with certain mysterious caveats.
They did of course just that.
Sneaky tweaky put it to the parents about the results which should have been published.
“Don’t know if they Braxtyn and Blessing have figured it out yet?
Or the other tie-breaker.”
The answer was GOATS IN TREES. !!!
And the quiz related to a type of goat embedded in an indistinct patch.
It emerged the son and daughter didn’t do crosswords that often.
“Still can’t decipher this abomination of puzzle, Blessing.”
Braxtyn doomed to failure for once.
“Me neither BRAX.
“On a different tack do
you recall the time we played in trees when we were young.
The things and creatures we found up there!”
At that point three goats appeared at the open door in overt synchronicity.
And Blessing put the nearest book ironically about animals over her eyes and gulped air in swathes.
“it’s an unsolved mysterious about this episode.
And both of us haven’t got a clue what’s going on.”
She was speaking as she looked out at the nearest green tree and the goats seemed to be heading its way!!!
And on the way she saw and gasped when one goat’s legs fell off!
A discordant squeak ensued from one of the three.
So that’s the hair-raising feeling you had, Braxtyn at every stage.”
Blessing whose hands shook.
“The Plastic nature of the pets and our parents kept that from us because they couldn’t afford authentic creatures.”
Awesome and Audacious and Sneaky Tweaky also had one outstanding matter to settle.
“How much do we owe you now, Sneaky for that expert on plastic moulding you recommended to sculpt the medley of pets that our offspring seemingly never twigged?”
The clue setter said ;
“Do you wish me to organise another contest, a debt clearing contest?”
Sneaky has a wry grin!
Did I hear you say the word TWIG!
Maybe that might be BRANCHING OUT TOO FAR.
In another sheltered scene Braxtyn conceded to Blessing.
“Wonder what the answer to that clue was?
Our folks could be asked or get a back issue of the paper!”
Observed clinically.
Blessing retorted.
“Wouldn’t we be considered dumb?”
Immediately Braxtyn replied.
“Now Blessing, that would be A CURSE!
“No, maybe that MIGHT GET YOUR MY GOATS….IN THREES
Blessing made a quip.
“Perhaps we should have seen the signs and been more CLUED IN from the start! “
Dedicated to the most gifted, beautiful genius in the world.
The lady who has inspired every step of my life.