What is safety?

If you seek only safety, you shall find uncertainty. If you seek only happiness, sorrow will be close-by. If you seek only love, scorn will be with you. If you seek the path that Fate* has set before you and choose Faith* as your friend, provision will be made on your behalf.

There is nothing quite like the feel of a staff, the physical dimensions, the hard, smooth, cool surface resting in one's hands, the weight and the force which it generates as it is swung, first one way and then spun another. The staff is a weapon which, although I do not consider myself "good", I feel that I have more remembered how to use than learned. I have a lot of love for this implement and I hope to learn how to use it better than I know now.

*Two faces of a very old God.