The Red Circle: Light

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Red Circle
Title: Light
Author: Mafief
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Author’s Note: Magical realism (because I wanted to)
Summary: “…and the way in which you brought light into the darkness. I remembered his words when I was in doubt and darkness myself."


Holmes retrieved a delicate gold bee from his pocket. He breathed out a yellow light into the bee and it sparked with life. It buzzed about and landed on the client’s shoulder.

“This will relay any necessary details,” said Holmes. She relaxed and exited our room.

“Now Watson, let’s see what can be done about the source of the darkness.”

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this idea :)

[mafief.livejournal.com]

I’m all excited about this idea. I want to keep reading this story and learning about this world. :)

[debriswoman]

Fascinating:-)

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Bees make awesome assistants if one has the proper control over them. (I may have done that myself a few times in my stories.)

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Sort of like Tinkerbell.
Neat! Send titles and/or links over and I'll take a look.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Most of my stories involve Euglassia watsonia, the bee Sherlock breeds and named for his partner in Elementary; the series of stories is called Joan's Beez (https://archiveofourown.org/series/129777).

Bees also act as tracking devices and weapons during an all-female commando raid to rescue Mycroft in the BBC Sherlock story "The Magnificent Division," one of the "Joan's Beez" stories in the above link.

A fuming Watson uses bees to drive off an encroaching young woman (who is NOT AT ALL based on Laurie R. King's Mary Sue Russell) in a Victorian Retirement story On the Strategy of the Queen (https://archiveofourown.org/works/7765282).

Oh, and Joan Watson turns into a bee in the Kafka-ish Bee Yourself (https://archiveofourown.org/works/6946732).

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I really, really love the image of the gold bee and Holmes breathing light and life into it - I can see it so well ^__^ It is a most intriguing world.

[mafief.livejournal.com]

The scene feels warm to me, and I've been having fun imagining the glowing bee buzzing about the room bumping into things like bumblebees do. I'd love to dream and figure out what those creations do a bit more...

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Lovely image of the bee and intriguing bit of world-building.

[mafief.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It would be fun to play with that world one day.