On a slow Wednesday afternoon, Blaze is visited by two worried-looking pixies. They need his help to save their portal.

It turns out, that developers have purchased a small tract of land and plan to put a tall and expensive residential tower on it. If that happens the pixies will be cut off from their portal back to the thirteenth century.

Can Blaze save the pixies’ time portal? This time he is up against normal people with normal eyesight and lots of money. All Blaze has is a half-eaten apple, a broken toothpick, and his dim-witted assistant, Harry.

Colin Blaze is a (possibly private) detective cursed by a witch to have only cases that no right-thinking person would ever believe were real. The witch hoped that Blaze would be discredited and forced to quit. Instead, Blaze is the champion of the bizarre and marginalised oddities of London.

Harry Smith is the faithful but dimwitted assistant to Colin Blaze. Some say Harry’s mind is tuned to simple ideas that smart people overlook. Others suggest that Harry’s mind moves too slowly for complex thoughts. Whatever the truth, Harry appears to live in a different kinder world. Be the client a yeti, a space alien, a ghost, a wizard, or a pair of time travellers, to Harry, they are just people and should be offered a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Harry is kind, happy to help, and has a uniquely simple perspective that sometimes inspires others to see things slightly differently.

This prompt features a character (Colin Blaze) from a shared and Open Source character collection. You are free to use Colin Blaze in any way so long as you give us appropriate credit. I (Matt) am longing to see the fiction that gets written about Blaze. I’m literally begging you to post a story or two about this strange detective.