After that amusing encounter Lex went to his study, feeling much better about everything. 'Soon Clark will hate me!' he thought to himself. 'Ah, that will be a happy day…a happy day.' He continued to sit, suavely, at his desk with the slightest shadow of a smile on his lips (a/n wasn't that a very serious sentence). Lex was sitting very still and after awhile, for no particular reason, he began to hallucinate…
MAGICAL TRIPPY HALLUCINATION SEQUENCE!!!
SWIRLING COLORS, GENE WILDER CREEPILY SINGING THAT SONG FROM WILLY WONKA, A RABBIT WITH A FEZ, ALICE FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND DANCING AND HUMMING THE DR. WHO THEME SONG, A STRANGE MAN IN A FEDORA TAKING PICTURES WITH A CAMERA SHAPED LIKE A LITTLE LEPRECHAUN.
Ok, that's enough. Lex stopped hallucinating after 7.68 minutes after he finished he walked over to the mirror and said, "After seeing all those bizarre sights I need to stare at myself for awhile, in order to calm down." He stared at himself for 19.34 minutes but was interrupted when a tall young man with dark, slightly curling hair that hung in his eyes burst into the room. "And who are you?" asked Lex, making a mental note to fire the servant who let him in.
"I'm Lord Xaphre Hollensborough and I need help, something terrible has happened." (a/n for more about Xaphre read my story, "Xaphre Hollensborough sorts things" at fiction press under the pen name Ewan McTeagle).
Sigh, "What is it and why did you come to me for help?"
"I can't tell you and I don't know."
"How don't you know?"
"It's a mystery."
"Please leave."
"I can't, I was told to come here by the ghost of my friend Alfonsè."
"That's moronic," said Lex as he discreetly pressed the button to summon a servant. When the servant finally got there he said, "Please get Mr. Murdock, I'd like Lord Hollensborough to meet him. By the by, were you the one who let this nice young man in?"
"Yes sir"
"Oh, you're so fired."
The servant sighed and took his leave. Five minutes of awkward silence ensued before Matt walked in, "Hi Mr. Luther, the man said you wanted me to meet someone. He seemed rather put out."
"Well, yes, I had just fired him."
"Oh…so this is who you wanted me to meet."
"Not so much meet as evict." Matt quickly got rid of Xaphre and he and Lex went to go find tea.