round 4 day 4, afternoon

[bitofafiction]

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.

Comments

[ergaleomancer]

She waits, trying to convince herself that she's not nervous. What kind of books will he bring?

[bitofafiction]

Quite a lot of them, in the end, tending toward analysis and always written by insiders. Sherlock does not believe in learning about anything from people who do not understand it themselves.

[ergaleomancer]

Theta cheerily digs into the books, and can easily lose hours just reading and absorbing the information, occasionally bothering Sherlock to share a passage from what she's reading and discuss it. For the moment, at least, her discussion is purely hypothetical, not in terms of their interactions.

[bitofafiction]

The realm of the hypothetical is a comfortable one for Sherlock. He is quite content to stay there.

Around sundown, however, he glances out the window and shuts the book on the table in front of him.

[ergaleomancer]

Theta looks up when she hears the book shut, and she smiles curiously. "Had enough for the day~?"

[bitofafiction]

"The library will still be here tomorrow. There's no rush."

[ergaleomancer]

"True, true. This has been amazing...I never would have thought there were such things in the world," she said, smiling softly for him.

[bitofafiction]

He smiles back.

"The world contains all kinds of things we never expect it to. Sometimes I rather think that is what it is for."

[ergaleomancer]

She laughed softly and nodded her head. "I did think I knew more about the topic than I apparently do." She paused, then added with a blush, "I look forward to exploring it in greater depth..."

[bitofafiction]

"As do I."

[ergaleomancer]

She fidgeted nervously for a moment, then reached for his hand. "We'll...explore such things together, mm? ...Just while we're here, we've got homes to go back to and I can't...be caught with anyone..."

[bitofafiction]

Sherlock takes her hand.

"If I can go home, I will go home. I miss my family. But until then—I am at your service, sir."

[ergaleomancer]

"Even if I ordered you to carry me back to the dorm~?" she asked teasingly. She wouldn't actually make him do it, but teasing him about it sounded fun, and it was easier than talking about what they needed to talk about.

[bitofafiction]

"Oh, certainly."

And he could, too.

[ergaleomancer]

"Mm," she purred, quietly pondering her options. "I think I'll walk, but that's good to know~."