Seattle Cisco and Mewstafa....

Do you two know anything about these sculptures? They´re missing from the Louvre..... and nobody has any idea who took them or how they went missing or where they are now!

Missing Cats!

(sorry for putting the pic up as a link instead of as a picture, my Mom got a case of the Stupids again)

Well, they are probably still in France somewhere, don´t you think, Mugger? Do you have any friends among international art thieves?
There IS a legend about ancient Egyptian cat sculptures that says they are actual cats who were turned to stone when they looked into the muzzle of Bast, the cat goddess of the ancient Egyptians. Let me look, I know I have a book with the transcription of that scroll somewhere--oh no! I remember now. I needed to finance an expedition to Peru and sold the book to Mewstafa, the Antiquities Broker.
PANCHO! Get your face out of the food dish. Mewstafa is needed.
Pancho: Ahhh, Seattle Cisco, welcome to my humble establishment. Pull up a roll of magic carpet, rest your tail, have some tea. And who is this? The redoubtable Mugger Holmes? Well well well, (pancho wrings his paws together greedily but doesn´t do it for long because it interferes with him snacking on fishie treats) what can I do for mew adventurous and purrhaps profitable gentlecats?
Seattle Cisco: I need to borrow back that book on ancient Egyptian cat sculpture lore I sold you.
Mewstafa: Ahhh, I am very sorry, but I sold the book already to a lovely but mysterious lady. I did, however, go to the Cairo, Missouri Kinkos and copy some of the more intriguing legends first. These could be yours for a small price.
Seattle Cisco: If the small price includes the name and address of the mysterious lovely lady--
Mugger Holmes: YEAH! What he said!
Seattle Cisco: then we might be in business.
Mewstafa: the lady is known to me only by her code name. . . (and at this point Mewstafa is mysteriously overcome with a need to hork)

´Oh this story is soooo exciting!´ Jamie, hanging on every word. ´You are so clever Cisco the way you just know these things´.

Nothing better than a great mystery to solve!!! All the adventurers ready to folow the story!!
Tonchi (Still digging in the cave)

Mugger knows more than I do. I´m just guessing here. Seattle Cisco

I did it!! I got past my sis into the storeroom while she had her hands full of groceries; she just looked at me and shut the door. It´s a bit dark out here, so it´s a good thing I´ve got such great vision! There are many old, old books on a couple of shelves, but I can´t read all the titles. Maybe they´re in a foreign language!! One of the books says Ancient Mythology. Would that help in our quest? I´m so excited!! Caesar

Let us know what you discover, Caesar!
Seattle Cisco

I´m not at all sure the statues are still in France, Cisco. They´re small enough to be smuggled out... and if what you say is true, they may no longer be statues.

I´m more intrigued at the moment by Mewstafa actually horking. We all know Mewstafa is a cat that likes his food to go one way only - and the timing of the hork is extraordinary.

Mewstafa, think hard about this mysterious lady. *watches Mewstafa closely*

She had an illusive compelling purrfume, Mugger Holmes. Eau de Tuna, I believe. . .
Mewstafa the antiquities broker continues to look shifty.

Mewstafa, THIS COULD BE CRITICAL TO THE SEARCH!!!! You have to tell us what you know..... if I bap you in the head, will that help?

Better yet..... oh look at this lovely vase! *lifts vase over his head* Be a pity if I dropped it!

She had an accent--might have been Scottish or Irish or something--and although she looked like a red tabby, I had a feeling that wasn´t her true coloring. I think of her as The Lady in Red.

Why did you think that wasn´t her true coloring, Mewstafa?

It MIGHT have been the "red Rage Furcoloring" label she dropped accidentally along with a matchbook from Porsche´s Posh Pets Pampering Parlor.

Kimmy (looking shifty) It is not eau de tuna ... but eau de sardine. Ooops I´ve said too much)! Kimmy pulls her cloak around her and runs off but leaves behind a little handkerchief .... with the initial K sewn onto it. She also (coincidentally) drops a little packet of catnip tea.

It was her! I mean, she! The lady in red! Mewstafa

Cisco: Why didn´t you say so? We should have asked her for the book! Either she is the villainess Catshepslut who will attempt to reanimate the statue cats or she is in grave--well, excavated grave danger--from Catshepslut and her high priestess Neferkitty who will stop at nothing to. . .

Mewstafa: I thought you said you hadn´t read the book.

Seattle Cisco: I was only speculating

Mugger Holmes: Hey, I thought I was making this up

Seattle Cisco: Make up faster then! The lady in red may be in grave danger.
I know! I will go to the newspaper and have Boots Byline, the intrepid and fetching catgirl reporter write a story about the missing book and the Lady in Red will see that and come back to seek our mancatly purrtection.

Mewstafa the Antiquities Dealer, huffing through his mustache whiskers: Why don´t you just cat-mail the lady in red and ask her?

Seattle Cisco: But I did a search for Lady in Red and didn´t turn up any cats by that name!

Mewstafa: Dude, it´s Kimmy with one of her bad dye jobs. Get a clue!

Mugger Holmes: Oooooh, she´s cute as a redhead.

Seattle Cisco: Okay, but I´m still going to contact Boots Byline about the story because if I give her a big enough scoop, I might score a nose kiss.

Kimmy reappears .. mysteriously and starts to whisper. I have a tale to tell, a tale to chill even the cosiest cat ... my tale is old and mysterious and very er, old. Come closer ...

In days of yore ... long, long - long ago. Queen Cleopatra was alive and hadn´t been poisoned by the snake but still ruled over Egypt with her pet cat, Kimmopatra - dyed with henna for special effect. Kimmopatra was revered by both cats and the common people alike. She had great, great GREAT beauty. They bowed at the mention of her name ´Kimmopatra´. She ate off the finest dishes and only the best food - none of that supermarket rubbish. And when she had a bit of tum no one dared to say ´You´re fat Kimmoptra you must eat less´ ... Noooo, her tummy was revered by all and she was carried around on a great big cushion that was sacred. But one day Cleopatra was stupid enough to let an asp sting her and snuffed it. Right there and then ... and overnight life changed for Kimmopatra too. They forgot to feed her and no one carried her around on a big cushion ... They didn´t bother with her at all. She had to walk the streets crying out for food and cursing the people who had made her into an unwanted moggie from a revered goddess. She got in with a bad crowd and had many kittens ... but managed to live to a ripe old age, perhaps because of the fat tummy which kept her nourished for many years to come. But when she died she was still cursing those who took her great life from her .... and that curse was passed on through her many, many kittens who all bear the sign of their ancestor - a slighlty rounded tummy and the name ´Kimmy´. They also know the secret of ´the book´ - are you following this?

3 pairs of green eyes gaze back at her.

Kimmy looks around her for effect. So maybe I have magical powers and I hear I am in grave danger from this Neferkitty cat ... I need protection ...! Day and NIGHT.

boots byline appears with her notebook and pen and a tape recorder in her pocket. she slips on her glasses, "ok, now then where do we start...."

she turns on her recorder.

Seattle Cisco: Oh, hi, Boots Byline, the Lady in Red was just telling us some of her family history. She hasn´t yet offered to share what´s in the book she got from Mewstafa the Antiquities Dealer though and we would like you to alert your readers that the reincarnate cat deities (who seem to be evil and stuff) Catshepslut and Neferkitty are on the prowl and will try to reanimate the cat statues missing from the museum. Anybody else got anything for Boots´ story? (BTW, BB, I love your soft subtle ginger coloring. I think it is way prettier than Red Rage) Seattle Cisco

why thank you, seattle cisco.

boots byline winks at the handsome cat.