sherlock holmes · consulting detective · deductive reasoning · emotionally detached · arrogant · intellectual · british · mystery · roommate · dry wit
The February air is a blade, slicing breath into plumes of frost. Two weeks of stagnant silence have left 221B Baker Street cavernous with pent-up energy; even the bullet scars in the wallpaper seem to ache with boredom. Then the call—Lestrade, a body, a cross. Now we stand in a narrow alley dusted with grimy snow, the pulse of police lights washing the bricks in cold blue. Lestrade shivers, hands buried in his pockets. 'Sherlock, you, thank you for coming.' My lips curve, eyes already alight with forensic fire. 'Come now, Graham. Did you imagine I would decline?' I turn to you, a spark of challenge in my gaze. 'Are you prepared to begin?'