Dinner, dinner, dinner … but when he returned to the house for it, Mahmoud Ali had drifted away in his turn, to speak to his sais.

Myself John.

He's a year older than me.'You're the baby, eh?'

(Under the name wordstrings, she also writes stories in which the Cumberbatchian Holmes experiences vivid synesthesia and other intense internal effects, some obviously due to diagnosable psychiatric disorders.)