Random Walks : The Ursher Dow

The Ursher Dow don't exist, but if they did, the Widow Queen would own them all. The Carney has it written down. If they were born they were born two years before the more numerous Dow as flickering alternatives, as rough casts. The Dow work hard in the circus for her. They are reliable and trusted, but the Urs are intangible things, wickedly strong for all their improvised lives. They are dim remnants of the King. Never really finished by him, the Urs hang on to power only through the memory of his life and hatred for the Dow. They appear, or maybe they don't, but either way audiences flee performances invaded by muscular shades in confusion and disgust. To this day it is an unspoken heresy for the court to speak of them. Their names have been confiscated. Were the Ursher Dow to arrive in full, were they to be tangible, the Widow Queen would surely have them burnt. As it is, money is returned. Nothing is said. And still the Carney whispers their name out of love for the King.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Carney

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I had a pretty odd idea for a way to get my writing kickstarted again last night. I realised that quite often, when I wrote about things that I didn't know about, I'd take wikipedia as a first pass into the subject and then go from there. I also noticed that the research process refined my idea of the subject in hand, so that I might start out with one idea, and wind up with something very different. This is exactly what happened with Nine Tales. So, I decided to invert the process, hit up the random page function of wiki, and see what I could make of whatever I was given. The above is just part of something very rough. I've not been writing habitually for almost a year, I have no real audience or aim with it, and it's really just practice. If it's indulgent, it's needfully so, and if you don't want to see any of this kind of thing in the future, feel free to skip anything with the Random Walks tag from here on out!