round 3 day 5, early afternoon

[bitofafiction]

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Format: prose preferred, action accepted!
This log is: open
Location: an unused classroom somewhere
Summary: Sherry plays the violin. Again. He's not doing so well lately.
Warnings: none at time of posting

Sherlock keeps playing the same song over and over again.

He plays it through once, and then stops because it is a ridiculously maudlin choice of tune; after a few minutes of trying to come up with something else and failing because it is so thoroughly stuck in his head, he goes back to it for lack of other options. Rinse, repeat. This has been going on for at least half an hour.

There is a blanket on the floor of the empty classroom he has chosen for this activity, but he found that even with no one there, he couldn't sleep. Perhaps because it's shortly after noon.

Every window in the room that can be opened has been; it's not raining now, but it was when he started playing, and he likes the sound. Sherlock and his violin are sitting by one of them, across from the open door.

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[myblueskies]

Romeo frowned again looking around. He didn't know why mister Sherlock couldn't sleep when other people were there but he did know that mostly when people couldn't sleep it was because they were scared. "Were you worried that someone would come in?"

[bitofafiction]

He glances out the window, not for any particular reason.

"Yes, I think perhaps I was."

[myblueskies]

By then of course Romeo had came up with a way to help Sherlock, because in times like that he just had to think about what Alfredo would do, and what Angeleta would do and between them they were very good at helping people.

"Alright then! I can help you sleep!" He hurried over to the windows and pushed them closed, checking they were all properly closed and couldn't be opened. He then pulled the curtains across making the room dark.

"See no one can look in, and I'll sit outside and make sure no one can come into the room!"

He skipped to the door and turned back to look at Sherlock and raised his fist to his heart, "Here is my vow that I wont let anybody enter, nor shall I come in until you wake! So now you can sleep!"

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock blinks.

He opens his mouth.

He closes his mouth.

"—The answer to the riddle is a hug," he says first.

Second: "And thank you. Very much. Shall we go after I have had a nap?"

[myblueskies]

"A hug?" With the other riddles Romeo had half understood them after he had been told the answer but this one was still a mystery, still Romeo smiled. "That's great, but sleep first and then we can go and tell the receptionist!"

Because as happy as he was that Sherlock had solved the riddle his friend needed sleep first. With another grin Romeo skipped outside the door and closed it sitting in front so that no body would be able to get in.