A Study in Scarlet: The Hand of God

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Canon Story: A Study in Scarlet
Title: The Hand of God
Author: Castiron
Rating: G
Author's Notes: What if Hope misheard, and that poisonous plant *didn't* come from South America?

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It was not merely sorrow that killed my husband's newest wife.

Our elders might rebuke me, but I have fasted and prayed; God's will is clear to me, though His reasons are obscure.

I have sent the leaves I found in Lucy's room to my botanist cousin in Pennsylvania.

After death I will learn why God asked this of me.

Comments

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Ah, quite a story of its own, isn't it? True, sorrow has never killed people. It's rather the consequences, but more often, circumstances that aren't enquired. I like the perspective chosen, one of the countless nameless women who otherwise would have gone faceless, too.