The Strange, the Odd and the Weird

by Jet556

Starting on a day filled with fence building, a Red Taz hunt and now the fire alarm going off a startling discovery is made: a photograph of Wendell Barrage, Veronica Victoria and the late Cassius Hagen together as friends! With the mystery of the appearance of a witch doctor who should be a glorified brain in a jar, Lee Ping and Tina Kwee's friend Basil Hagen has his own mystery.

5. Dead

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Dead

Basil and Cherie both stood before the house of Trans Fishers. They were both rather shocked by what Mrs. Fishers had told them. Basil was particularly more shocked.

"Yesterday?" Basil asked. "He died yesterday?"

"It was very sudden." Replied Mrs. Fishers. "I wasn't surprised though, he said everyday for that last three years this will be the day that I die. I just got tired of hearing him saying it and am happy that he is dead so I don't have to hear him say it anymore!" Basil and Cherie were both speechless. "He used to go on and on about Cassius Hagen, Wendell Barrage and Veronica Victoria! About how Vram Banana suggested he partnered them together when working on the play 'The Undead.'" Basil's eyes widened. Vram Banana? Who was Vram Banana? "Anyway, do you want to know when the funeral is?"

Basil shook his head. "No thanks and my condolences." And with that, Mrs. Fishers shut the door.

Walking down the street, Basil gripped Cherie's hand.

"A dead end, huh?"

"Not really, Cherie." Basil looked up to the sky. "We have someone else to look for now."

"You mean that Vram Banana guy?" asked Cherie. "Do we have to look for him now? I don't want to go all over Toronto today."

Basil gave a chuckle. "The thought of doing that isn't appealing to me either." He looked at Cherie with her alabaster skin and golden hair. She was beautiful and he'd just as likely go for a phantom that looked like her only to find the phantom didn't have the heart and soul he had fallen in love with. In many ways he was like Menelaus who had found a phantom Helen made by Hermes, whom the Egyptians called Thoth, only to once again find his love for her when he found the real Helen in Egypt. She had drunk of his lips deeply and he of hers. They had touched. They knew each other well. No matter how beautiful the phantom, no matter how lustful the Theseus, no matter how handsome the Paris, no matter how mean spirited the Deiphobus no matter how unscrupulous the Ramesses III they would always be together. All loves had this challenge because of a third party getting in the way.

Lee and Tina would face this challenge twice.