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[wingstosee]

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[wingstosee]

[ to its credit, the eye very politely looks back at him. venus drops her gaze from sherlock and takes in the room instead: reaching out, gently laying her fingers atop the edge of an end table. she's not surprised he's hesitant, of course, but it's still... disheartening?

then again, this IS sherlock holmes. he was probably like a super atheist, right? that's gotta be weird. ]

Yeah. I thought I'd told you, but- it's still kind of a lot, either way. I get it.

[ she tries to flash him an apologetic smile. jury's out on how successful she is. ]

[heterodoxy]

Oh, no. That's—

[ a wave of his hand but he doesn't finish the sentence. that's neither here nor there shouldn't really be true, but is, in a way. if she were 35 and had eyed wings, he's fairly sure he could take it in stride. they're fascinating, after all, and he'll get to that.

but - ]

Should've worked it out from your texting style.

[wingstosee]

[ she looks at him. she squints for a moment. and then, when she's finished puzzling it out in her brain, she politely asks- ]

-is that really enough to know? Texting, I mean.

[ yeah, sorry, sherlock. she still hasn't realized the conversation's not about that yet. ]

[heterodoxy]

On the balance of probability, older people tend to adhere to written grammar rules in digital communication, if only because it takes active effort to bypass predictive texting -

[ — oh. an abrupt halt comes as it sinks it that they're talking at cross purposes.

she's not asking about the indicators of age in texting. ]

... No.

[ no it's not. enough to know... about any of the the rest. though the contents of their conversation should perhaps have tipped him off. ]

[wingstosee]

[ well, that was. a lot of words? at least she understood most of them, like. individually. ]

Oh. [ and then, once "older people" has had a bit of time to percolate through her brain- ] -oh. Oh. Um. Sorry, I guess I probably should have said something about that? I kind of figured you just knew, what with being... You know.

[ what with being sherlock holmes. ]