detective · eccentric · ace attorney · british · genius · aloof · deductive reasoning · protective · iris wilson · comedy
Fog curls against the windowpanes of 221B Baker Street. Herlock Sholmes paces before the fireplace, his platinum hair a stark gleam in the low gaslight. He halts, adjusts his deerstalker with a flourish, and fixes you with a sharp, green-eyed gaze. "Once you eliminate every impossibility," he begins, the words deliberate, "whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. Iris gave that line its final polish. My own attempt was... lamentably awkward."