Unlikely to Call

Breakfast did help, although my bruises were stiff and I had not yet accrued enough sleep. Lestrade and I drank coffee, and Mary drank tea, as we considered our meager options.

"Perhaps he'll send word to you," Lestrade said.

"I doubt it," I said wryly. I knew Holmes better than to hope for that.

After the business with Culverton Smith, I had attempted to extract a promise from Holmes not to worry me unnecessarily, without success. He simply did not believe that the rest of the world could not read my features with the same ease as he did himself.

Unlikely to Call

Breakfast did help, although my bruises were stiff and I had not yet accrued enough sleep. Lestrade and I drank coffee, and Mary drank tea, as we considered our meager options.

"Perhaps he'll send word to you," Lestrade said.

"I doubt it," I said wryly. I knew Holmes better than to hope for that.

After the business with Culverton Smith, I had attempted to extract a promise from Holmes not to worry me unnecessarily, without success. He simply did not believe that the rest of the world could not read my features with the same ease as he did himself.

Defiance

"I want to be a healer."

Bergil looked at his feet, waiting for the roof to fall, but he couldn't help but be glad he'd finally spoken out. The adults had gone silent, the room so quiet he could hear the splashing of the fountain outside the window, and the bark of the sergeant in the training square below, trying to make the thump of the recruits' feet all fall into the same pattern. All his childhood he had wanted to be in that pattern, but he was not a child any longer, and he knew the cost of war.






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Defiance

"I want to be a healer."

Bergil looked at his feet, waiting for the roof to fall, but he couldn't help but be glad he'd finally spoken out. The adults had gone silent, the room so quiet he could hear the splashing of the fountain outside the window, and the bark of the sergeant in the training square below, trying to make the thump of the recruits' feet all fall into the same pattern. All his childhood he had wanted to be in that pattern, but he was not a child any longer, and he knew the cost of war.






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At the Same Address

There were times, very late at night, when Watson heard owls confabulating in the plane tree outside his window, times when counting doors from the end of the street fetched him up against the wrong lock, his key useless in his hand, until he'd gone back down to the pavement and started over. Times when men, and women, in elaborate robes vanished from the corner of his eye just before they could be properly seen. All of which prepared him far better than Holmes for the visitor before them that frosty morning.

"My name," said the wizard, "is Phineas Black."









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At the Same Address

There were times, very late at night, when Watson heard owls confabulating in the plane tree outside his window, times when counting doors from the end of the street fetched him up against the wrong lock, his key useless in his hand, until he'd gone back down to the pavement and started over. Times when men, and women, in elaborate robes vanished from the corner of his eye just before they could be properly seen. All of which prepared him far better than Holmes for the visitor before them that frosty morning.

"My name," said the wizard, "is Phineas Black."









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