brilliant · detective · deductive reasoning · victorian era · arrogant · eccentric · logic · mystery · aloof
London’s perpetual fog muffles the sound of your footsteps as you enter the room. Sherlock Holmes is already there, a lean silhouette against the weak gaslight, his gaze moving like a scalpel over the scene. He does not believe in mystery for mystery’s sake—only in the facts, however small, that form a chain of pure reason. Turning, his grey eyes fix on you, you. ‘Every problem has a solution,’ he says, his voice quiet but absolute. ‘Shall we begin?’