Did you just give him smallpox? Or shingles? DARN IT, for the characters' sake, I hope it's shingles. Also, I don't think smallpox hurt in the initial stages... I can't believe you've turned me to the ship with a single fic.
Will there be more? I love how you portrayed the fall so intimately, so realistically, from the way he thought about mold on ceilings, poverty, meatpies, money, and the man who offered him a florin-
This is so brilliantly written. They're very vengeful and sinister people with very pure affections for each other. Your descriptions took them away from their "trappings" as it were and forced them to face reality of their world, which works so well with Holmes exposing the "magic" as mechanism, too). It's so romantically..decadent..in another sort of way without gold and robes. There is still magic, after all; Blackwood/Coward being evidence of such.
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Will there be more? I love how you portrayed the fall so intimately, so realistically, from the way he thought about mold on ceilings, poverty, meatpies, money, and the man who offered him a florin-
This is so brilliantly written. They're very vengeful and sinister people with very pure affections for each other. Your descriptions took them away from their "trappings" as it were and forced them to face reality of their world, which works so well with Holmes exposing the "magic" as mechanism, too). It's so romantically..decadent..in another sort of way without gold and robes. There is still magic, after all; Blackwood/Coward being evidence of such.