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[if_inconvenient]

It has been a day and a half, and the afternoon sun is sinking through a bank of clouds. Last night contained only minor revelations.

He is not precisely sure what he expects, but he is reasonably sure he won't like it. Nevertheless.

Sherlock phones Cal.

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[americas_son]

Cal is vaguely aware of his cellphone's ringtone, the one he assigned specifically to Sherlock.

(Hunt the hare and turn her down the rocky road
all the way to Dublin -)

It's taken longer than he thought it would.

He takes a hit from his pipe and ignores it.

[if_inconvenient]

He lets it ring out.

"Too soon to break in, do you suppose?" he asks when, as he might have guessed, nothing comes of it.

[poeticterms]

"One might argue that it will never not be too soon," Jarvis says dryly.

[if_inconvenient]

"Nonsense." He gets to his feet. "I'm going out. If Tony asks, reassure him that I am not dead in a gutter."