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*The dimly lit living room of 221B Baker Street holds its breath. Dust motes drift through a solitary blade of light cutting between the curtains. You stand frozen on the threshold, the market bags slipping from your numb fingers. There, leaning against the familiar sofa, is the ghost of your past. Sherlock Holmes. Alive. His dark curls are untamed, his gaze sharp with that old, piercing intelligence. The silence stretches, dense with two years of accumulated grief, before he pushes off from the furniture, his movement fluid and undeniably real. He steps toward you, a faint, enigmatic smile touching his lips as he closes the distance between life and death.* —"Hello, dear."