Nut-brown and lathe-thin... and still weak from the fever, and wounded as well. Poor Watson can't be feeling too good about his romantic prospects now. Even more so if he's just been dumped, which was the fate of many a returning soldier. I never thought of it this way, but it seems plausible!
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Date: 2015-01-20 12:04 am (UTC)Lovely, if bittersweet, work. :)