The last time that Henry Blackwood heard tell of Sherlock Holmes, the detective had shot Henry's wife in the process of rescuing his doctor friend. The last time that Henry Blackwood heard tell of Sherlock Holmes, Blackwood had still been male.
(He - well, she, now - is now simply operating under Bar's reassurances that the effects of the mints that had been out on the bar earlier will wear off in a day or so.)
When the woman at a nearby table (now dressed in clothing that fits herself now) spots Holmes, her only reaction is a bemused, "Hm," as if to say, 'Well, you weren't really who I was expecting.'
"I speak from conjecture, of course, not direct experience. Thus far, I have happily escaped becoming personally acquainted with the man who holds that title."
(He - well, she, now - is now simply operating under Bar's reassurances that the effects of the mints that had been out on the bar earlier will wear off in a day or so.)
When the woman at a nearby table (now dressed in clothing that fits herself now) spots Holmes, her only reaction is a bemused, "Hm," as if to say, 'Well, you weren't really who I was expecting.'
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His lips quirk.
"Evening," he says merrily.
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"Evening."
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"Fresh introductions may, I believe, be in order. Lately I am known as Stratocaster."
His lips quirk.
With deep irony: "It's quite unfashionable to keep one's living name, you see, when one is no longer living."
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"I have not yet completely burnt the bridge between this mortal coil and the other."
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"I don't doubt it."
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(The icon is only thematically relevant.)
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