type of thing these two will start telling themselves in a couple years because a consequence of them knowing each other from the start is that you have to wonder why they let the other stay alive/unconvicted for two-ish decades. voice of a sane and unattached person because the world would be dull without you. holmes does say something similar in the norwood builder that from the point of view of the criminal expert london has become "a singularly uninteresting city" but that was after he kills moriarty. in this universe he has to deal with some degree of complicity by virtue of letting james walk freely for this long 🙂↕️
#not certain about it right now but i think xiao wei and james are meant to be mirrors kind of#in this case sherlock's probably half lying i don't think he knew about the secret passage she really did dupe him again but#i like that he's already quite fond of her despite not knowing her true motive for killing the apostles#young sherlock
