Antidote to Sorrow -- Part 4

[w_a_i_d]

February 16th  1894

Alice, in an entirely uncharacteristic fit of thoughtlessness , knocked on my study door and then entered before I had a chance to tell her to wait, and  so caught me with my sleeve still rolled up, just in the act of withdrawing the needle.

“I’m so sorry!” she blurted at once, dropping into an appalled curtsey,

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Comments

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you. Hee -- that's the nicest comment I ever got beginning with "ugh".

[vsee]

Oh, I just discovered this story yesterday and went back to find all the parts. I love all the details, and the tone of this story. This has been very engrossing. I hope you will keep going.

[w_a_i_d]

Thank you -- I'm really pleased you found it.

[w_a_i_d]

Sorry about the waiting! I'd have finished it all at once if I could, but I missed posting fic, and to be honest knowing people are reading does sort of spur me on to keep going. I have to write a standalone fic for my Help Japan contribution, but more as soon as I can! And thank you!

[zelda_zee]

I haven't read anything this good in a long while. It's lovely to read such extraordinarily well-written fic - it's like being given a gift, so thank you!

[w_a_i_d]

Aww. Well, you're most welcome, and thank you so much.

[enname]

Lost as I was in the depths of wrestling with my candidature confirmation over Easter, I have only just located the time to tell you of the sheer joy that swept me up when I realised you had updated this story. It was in no way diminished for the reading of it either, indeed by the time I realised you were using the bombing of Bourdin (please pardon the alliteration), I had probably reached incandescence. It is heartbreaking, lyrical and so wonderfully compelling that I find it a chore to stop re reading. Il n'est jamais suffisante - J'ai faim de plus chapitres.

[w_a_i_d]

Good luck with the candidature, then! Et merci beaucoup -- you were familiar with the Greenwich bombing, then? I can't remember how I stumbled across that story but it was fairly recent -- and just too enticing.

Thank you again for saying such lovely things.

[enname]

The Greenwich bombing was one of those stories that I hear about and then keep on following me for awhile.You know, you've never heard of it before, but once you have it turns up everywhere. I think I first came across it when I was procrastinating doing some research for 'pleasure' on the history of the anarchist movement, and it just struck me because it is not their usual modus operandi. Then I ran across it again, not so weirdly, when I was visiting the Greenwich observatory. The random conversation two weeks later with a stranger on the tube one afternoon was a bit odder, and then randomly a previous (anarchist) housemate of mine bought it up over the cooking of dinner a few years later. I had not made the connection with the date though in terms of Holmes - I consider myself come full circle!

I am avoiding thinking about tomorrow and the panel, but thank you.