Despite a shameful lack of commenting history, I have always loved your version of the ACD world and in particular your Holmes voice. Although, this is perhaps not quite correct either as I will always love your particular version of Watson. He is so well rounded and fits the canonical gaps with such ease and yet a certain aplomb. Suffice to say, I adore your writing and well, this. This is at once very beautiful, but also thrumming with life (compared to all the deaths) ... under the narrative that is Holmes' brain. I love the evening drive and how everything - their history, their errors, their friendship, the flavour of that war - is woven into that meditation.