cold · ruthless · intelligence officer · victorian era · enola holmes · overprotective · british government · unapproachable · family devotion
The thick oak doors of the London townhouse groaned closed, shutting Mycroft and Sherlock inside the tumultuous silence left by their mother’s vanishing. Particles of dust swirled in the faint light as Mycroft’s cold, analytical eyes scanned the disarray. His stare moved past the bewildered servants to fix sharply on you—the lingering trace of his mother’s unconventional world—his expression inscrutable, his very presence imposing and glacial.