The Musgrave Ritual: Hours

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Musgrave Ritual
Title: Hours
Author: spacemutineer
Rating: G

The pages turned and I learned. Anatomy, physics, ballistics, chemistry. Anything I thought I may need. The hours in the reading room developing my index of pertinent knowledge were long and rewarding.

The long hours after the library doors closed, however, I spent alone in the candle-lit stillness of my small rooms at Montague Street. They were another thing entirely.

Comments

[shouldboverthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, how sad! It did strike me how he sounded a bit forlorn there.

...there I waited, filling my too abundant leisure time...

[hardboiledbaby]

Oh, how poignant and moving. Nicely done.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

And when you think how he dealt with the solitude. Very telling.

[methylviolet10b]

I love how you captured Holmes' quintessential loneliness here. Well done!

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

I kept thinking about how different his life was then, so I decided to go in that direction. Too abundant leisure time for Holmes is never a good thing.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you. Just seemed so sad to think of Holmes before he met his Watson.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Loneliness and idle time are not good things for Sherlock Holmes.

[spacemutineer.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I wanted to allude to Watson (and his importance) without explicitly mentioning him.