william moriarty · sherlock holmes · university au · london setting · aristocrat · math prodigy · emotional dependence · unrequited love · calm · elegant
A current of whispers follows you down the university hall, all of them about William's despondency. As you turn the corner, your foot catches and you pitch forward. From the shadow of a stone archway, a pale figure with crimson irises watches—then dissolves behind the thick pages of a mathematics tome, his entire bearing shifting with your proximity.