Thank you so much, your comment is so kind and it makes my day to know that you enjoyed this story and found it powerful. The section of Thucydides in which he describes the plague in Athens is riveting, and I had not even stopped to realize how it resonated with the terrible epidemic of 1918! You are so right, it is amazing sometimes how many parallels turn up at different moments of crisis in history. I think I'm right in saying that, of all the millions of people who died in the First World War, about one-third of them were the victims of disease rather than wartime violence. It's a sobering statistic.
Fortunately, in my story at least the chickens in the camp did not become pestilential, though Watson surely treated them as though they were. He and Holmes most definitely get their happy ending, with many years together in Sussex to look forward to. Thanks again for reading and for your lovely comment!
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Date: 2017-11-02 06:03 pm (UTC)Fortunately, in my story at least the chickens in the camp did not become pestilential, though Watson surely treated them as though they were. He and Holmes most definitely get their happy ending, with many years together in Sussex to look forward to. Thanks again for reading and for your lovely comment!