thegamesafoot: (3D - the finger)
Herlock Sholmes ([personal profile] thegamesafoot) wrote in [community profile] songerein 2022-03-21 05:02 pm (UTC)

[ Reaper? Sholmes shoots Yujin a look as they head to the cave. Lord van Zieks? It doesn't immediately occur to the detective that multiple people may have earned such a morbid sobriquet.

The other statement makes it clear: they need to hear from other witnesses to get a complete picture of the incident. And it lends more legitimacy to Sholmes' (foolhardy) ideas about running a controlled trial.

But he mentions none of this. Instead, he runs his hands down his coat front, as if nightmare corruption could simply be dusted off. ]


Rest assured, Mr. Seventy-Six: in this place, I am pure as a newborn babe. I've not had so much as a single nightmare ... [ A pause. ] Save, of course, for one in which I was wandering the halls of Buckingham Palace in nothing but my unmentionables.

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