The Silver Answer (fic)

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Author: ariadnes_string
Title: The Silver Answer
Rating: light R
Warnings: n/a
Word Count: 11,170 (in two parts)
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit.
a/n: written for the hw09_exchange

Summary: A chance encounter with a mesmerist has unexpected consequences for Holmes and Watson.

…a mystic shape did move
Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair
And a voice said in mastery, while I strove…
Guess now who holds thee?...Death, I said, but there
The silver answer rang…not Death but Love.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Silver Answer