reserved at ataraxion, mid-app.

[beperpetual]

Apply yourself, please. I shudder to think about the damage Holmes can do without me there to smooth things out.

And don't think I don't see what you're planning, when you're putting your heads together and laughing. Mary is not in India with the tigers or Italy with a count, or any other ridiculous scenario he can conjure up. Don't encourage this sort of thing-- you're as bad as he is, the pair of you.

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[beperpetual]

[ it's the touching, man. the touching. ]

And don't beg for help elsewhere, either. You'll bear it or I'll do it again. [ he'll last a stoic day and a half, max. ]

[saidhe]

[ wait so is gazing totally game then ]

No matter, I've just the fix for it.

You know, thanks should be in order. I really am giving her a most flattering sendoff.

[beperpetual]

[ ...lesser of two evils. so yes. ]

No fixes, not a single one. I expect to see one bruised eye for a least a week, and you won't enjoy a minute of it.

I'll not thank you for telling me my wife is eaten, Holmes.

[saidhe]

[ yesssssssss come to me my sweet ]

Suppose I have a particularly tasty snack food, I'd surely enjoy that minute, at least.

Eaten while fighting a vicious tiger in a delicate death trap, in order to save her star-crossed lover. No, it is a noble death. Dare I say the noblest?

[beperpetual]

Not a single second. No snacks, nothing but thinking about why you deserved far more than one hit to the face.

It's fiction, noble or not.

[saidhe]

Implying, of course, that I did, in fact, warrant such a hit - to which I'm not admitting. At present. [ out loud. ]

Noble fiction which could be happening as you speak but you would be none the wiser. After all I've taught you and you still can't spend the vigilance that should be given to possible tiger attacks.

[beperpetual]

Tigers, Holmes. [ more than one hit is deserved, tyvm. ]

There is no reasoning with you, is there?

[saidhe]

For ten years you've been asking me that question, and for ten years I haven't given you an answer. Watson-

[ look at this face you could not possibly punch this fantastic and also beseeching face ] I really do worry about these detrimental repetitions you always find yourself in.