round 4 day 4, afternoon

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Characters: Theta Buckley and Sherry Holmes
Format: prose
This log is: closed
Location: let's start with the gym
Summary: Sherry and Theta investigate the unknowns of her new Ability ring.
Warnings: none at time of posting ...kind of kinky flirting? Also identity issues. And then REALLY kinky flirting.

Originally they were headed to the library, but Sherlock agrees that the gym makes a much more logical destination given the circumstances.

He follows Theta there, hands tucked in his pockets, thinking.

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"I would not be opposed to such a plan."

[ergaleomancer]

"I'm starting to think you're not 'opposed' to very much at all, Sherlock," she laughed.

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"Only to things worth opposing."

[ergaleomancer]

She laughed brightly, shaking her head. "If you say so. I think you're hiding that you're quite contrary indeed~."

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"I do not think I am hiding it very well," Sherlock observes.

[ergaleomancer]

"No, but I was being kind~," she teases.

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"Oh, is that what you call it?"

[ergaleomancer]

"When I want to call it that~."

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"I see," he says dryly, taking off his Exaclan glove. The roach swarm vanishes and Sherlock loses the last of his speed boost.

He does not, he tells himself sternly, miss it.

[ergaleomancer]

Theta laughed, shaking her head amusedly. "What's the matter, can't I be clever with my phrasing~?"

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"You certainly can. And I can be contrary by being agreeable."

[ergaleomancer]

"And what if I'm starting to find your being contrary agreeable~?"

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"Then I believe you have the advantage of me."

[ergaleomancer]

She laughs wickedly. "And what, pray tell, should I do with that advantage~?"

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"I am sure I couldn't tell you," he says with scrupulous innocence.

[ergaleomancer]

"We~ell," she muses. "I am me. I suppose I ought to press it somehow~~."

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He clasps his hands behind his back. "I am without suggestions."

[ergaleomancer]

She starts limping along, carefully pacing back and forth in front of him. "You should stand up straighter, you know~."

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"Should I? To what end?"

[ergaleomancer]

"Because you are a ~gentleman~, Mr. Holmes, are you not~?"

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"Debatably."

[ergaleomancer]

"Then aren't you ~grateful~ I'm helping you polish up~?"

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He cannot seem to stop himself smiling.

[ergaleomancer]

Theta, too, is smiling, perhaps unusually much. She stops and stands still, then carefully balances on her good leg, reaching out with her cane to gently and playfully swat him across the shins. "Didn't I tell you to stand up straighter~?"

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"You may have done," he acknowledges.

And yet he isn't.

Contrary bastard.