The story so far . . . .
A former client of mine, The Spirit of True Love (aka Aphrodite Goddes of Love), from my days as a cyber warrior / devil's advocate had been murdered. Shortly afterwards in their Mystical Realms there had been a regime change. The youngest of the Fates, Clotho has brought my former client's niece, Dalerous to the realm of mortals on the trail of a former minion of the Lord Low Troll, Tragar. Tragar is trying to thwart the last action by the Spirit of True Love, to bring true romance to a contestant on Big Brother 4, identified only as J
As I watched the tiny screen flicker on the TV in the bedsit, showing the eviction of a housemate called Anouska I felt dirty. There had been three other contestants up for nomination, and one of them was called Jon. Could this be the mysterious J ? I had no way of knowing. There was also a lady by the name of Justine, who seemed to be under everyone's radar.
In order to keep Jon in the house we had needed another sacrificial lamb. Two of the nominees were considered rank outsiders to get the chop, The real race was between Anouska and Jon, so Anouska had to walk so the Spirit of True Love's last plan could have some chance of running it's course. I had really wanted to remain neutral, but then we never get everything we want in life. I tried to assuage the guilt over my part in Anouska down fall by telling myself that it was probably for the best.
I just wondered how a Fate and a very young women could take out a Troll before he got to J, or managed to get J removed from the game before their time.
I assumed that Clotho and Dalerous would have seen the eviction, but since i could not be sure, I retrived my cross plane communicator given to me by the Spirit of True Love's brother, The Guaardian of Mortal Struggle (Formally Ares God of War).
Communicating between the planes is quite trick, especially as one of the planes, the Mystical Relams, was formed from the collective unconsciousness of the sentient beings in the realm of mortals. I found the number of the Fates and rang it.
"Lachesis here" came the answer.
"It's me, I need to get a message to Clotho" I replied.
"She's in bed"
"What?" I replied
"Clotho is in bed" Lachesis insisted "with the flu Can I take a message"
"I don't understand, I met her several hours ago" I insisted "She had Dalerous in tow and said they were trying to find a troll called Tragar"
The line seemed to go silent, than Atropos the oldest of the fates came on the line. "Tragar is not a troll"
"Huh ?"
"Tragar" explained Atropos "is a doppleganger, he sometimes worked as a double for the Lord Low Troll. He escaped this morning when the Fawns came to arrest him."
"So I met with Tragar" I ventured, "But what about the lass called Dalerous, is she a doppleganger"
An familiar mail voice came over the cross plane communicator, it was the Guardian of Mortal Struggle, "No she really is the niece of my sister and she has disappeared"
They listened as I explained the encounter I had and about the piece of paper with the apparent plan for a contestant called J. They confirmed that The Spirit of True Love had devised a plan for romance to flourish on a human Big Brother gameshow. Dalerous had kept the plan on her for months.
It was arranged that an elven ranger would cross over to try and track the pair down, I left the apartment to go to the rendevous point.
Sure enough at the agreed time, the gate opened and the elven ranger stepped forward and collapsed. In his back was a small knife. I half expected it to be a troll throwing knife, but when I looked at the handle it was elvish.
The situation now seemed dire
A possible candidate for the identity of J was tipped as being up for nomination for eviction from the Big Brother house,
A former lieutenant of the deposed Lord Low Troll, Tragar had managed to abduct from the Mystical Realms the neice of the murdered Spirit of True love and had removed her to the world of mortals.
And someone in the New Mystical Realms security force was a mole for the old regime.
