guy who is more concerned about not using the scientific method than the actual killing people part (aka fanart of this post that made me laugh earlier)
- Sherlock Holmes, the Adventure of the Three Garridebs
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In an instant he had whisked out a revolver from his breast and had fired two shots. I felt a sudden hot sear as if a red-hot iron had been pressed to my thigh. There was a crash as Holmes’s pistol came down on the man’s head. I had a vision of him sprawling upon the floor with blood running down his face while Holmes rummaged him for weapons. Then my friend’s wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.
“You’re not hurt, Watson? For God’s sake, say that you are not hurt!”
It was worth a wound–it was worth many wounds–to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.
“It’s nothing, Holmes. It’s a mere scratch.”
He had ripped up my trousers with his pocket-knife.
“You are right,” he cried with an immense sigh of relief. “It is quite superficial.” His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. “By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Now, sir, what have you to say for yourself?”
(Something something queerness was considered a form of insanity in the Victorian era something something mostly I am just Moved by Holmes having a crisis of confidence and needing reassurance before he can go to sleep)
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It was late that night when Holmes returned from his solitary excursion. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was the best that the little country inn could do for us. I was already asleep when I was partly awakened by his entrance.
"Well, Holmes," I murmured, "have you found anything out?"
He stood beside me in silence, his candle in his hand. Then the tall, lean figure inclined towards me. "I say, Watson," he whispered, "would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?"
"Not in the least," I answered in astonishment.
"Ah, that's lucky," he said, and not another word would he utter that night.
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A purple art deco styled background has gold text that reads: Garreg Mach Manor. Year 1185.
A carriage appears and then disappears to the left of the screen to reveal Claude, Edelgard and Dimitri from behind. They stand at the end of a long pathway towards a grand manor house. The antler horns for Claude's mask are visible, as are the horns on Edelgard's headdress. The camera pans forwards, towards the house, and fades to black.
The doors open to reveal Yuri stood in an ornate foyer on a rug. he wears a wolf mask. Behind him is a grand, well lit staircase, and a ball room off to the side. The house interior is largely purple with gold detailing. The corridors are cosily lit with wall chandeliers. Yuri takes a bow and a screen wipe takes us to the next scene.
Edelgard walks down a corridor wearing a plain red mask. Portraits and ornate wall lighting with candles line the corridor. Edelgard notices something in the corner of her eye and turns towards the camera to look. A vase housing flowers has fallen to the floor and cracked.
The next scene starts on the floor, with a volto mask and Claude's feet visible. Claude kneels down to pick up the mask and holds it in front of his face. He wears deer mask with antlers. The corridor is visible in the background and focus shifts from the mask to Claude and the background. Claude looks curious.
The scene shifts to Dimitri. He sits in a bedroom decorated similarly to the hallway and the rest of the house, with an open door to the left and a window with open curtains behind him. He holds a glass of wine in front of him and wears a lion mask. The curtains behind him move and Dimitri startles, disturbing the wine. He immediately turns to look at the window, seeing nothing. His face is frantic as he looks.
Dimitri pants as the scene shifts to show us the full room. The corner of the rug closest to the window is disturbed, but otherwise the room is the same.
Next, three scenes appear in quick succession. We see Edelgard again, startled and walking backwards away from the fallen vase.
Claude's back is to the screen. He is in the hallway, looking at a portrait. He turns to look at the camera. Dimitri dons his lion mask in the hall outside the ballroom.
Yuri holds a finger to his lips in a "shh" motion, pulling back the curtain. Farce and Facades appears in a spotlight. Credits roll as we pan along the manor's corridor, showing women in the portraits lining the hallway.
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