Good lord. It almost sounds like you think you're not insufferable.

[ He's got a good thirty-some-odd years to attest to the contrary. But Mycroft doesn't smile when he delivers the retort. He doesn't frown, not exactly, but it's most important that he's not smiling. Smiles are for comforting and degradation, of which he supplies neither. But there is consideration, calculation for which he's no doubt been called. ]

A step off the ledge and into Valhalla. I think your valkyrie would consider it apropos. He knew his mythos rather well, for a practical.