Page 43 of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Amanda Bailey
Got something to show you. Quick. Come back past the lifts to the stairs.
Outside an electronic public toilet. After I showed Oliver the symbols and he keeled over:
Amanda Bailey
Feeling better?
Amanda Bailey
These Dalek toilets freak me out. Are you stuck? Shall I call 999?
Oliver Menzies
NO! I’m fine. Stop knocking FFS.
Amanda Bailey
You keeled over! Thought you’d choked on one of my chewy mints. Been looking into where that might leave me, legally.
Oliver Menzies
Thanks for your concern. Didn’t keel over! Felt shaky that’s all.
Amanda Bailey
Are you coming out?
Oliver Menzies
No, but there ARE some good-looking guys around Just sitting here for a bit till shaking stops.
Amanda Bailey
OK. Well, I’m going back to take more pics of the symbols.
Oliver Menzies
Are you claiming them as occult? Because it’s clear to me what they are: spray-paint graffiti tags the council tried to remove and almost did.
Amanda Bailey
This area has been razed and rebuilt in the last eighteen years. Those symbols were painted recently. There could be people who still follow the ethos of the cult and believe themselves to be angels.
Oliver Menzies
Amanda Bailey
Let me run something past you. From old photographs and what I know about this area, those symbols are painted EXACTLY where the Alperton Angels summoned dark powers and ritually died. What if you picked up on that negative energy and keeled over?
Oliver Menzies
What a pile of bullshit. It felt like one of my coffee-induced turns. Brain-dead barista must have forgotten I said decaf. Caffeine doesn’t agree with me. That’s all.
Oliver Menzies
Didn’t keel over.
