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"Sherlock stares at the email, then reads it again even though its contents are already committed indelibly into his brain. He closes his eyes and unconsciously brings the fingers of his right hand to stroke across his lips, nervous gesture he hasn't allowed himself to indulge in for a very long time. The memories swim through his mind's eye, the skin on his arms prickles as he recalls the sensation of Victor's touch, the sound of his voice, the dull edge of his smile. His cold goodbye, his grip on Sherlock's wrist as he pulled Sherlock close to whisper poisonously in his ear, the glint of satisfaction in his eyes at Sherlock's struggles to contain his tears."
Sherlock takes a case which brings him close to a painful past, but this could help him to take the chance for the love he has always desired.
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"Xie [...] had invented an entire pleasure-industry by combining superior visual aesthetics with impeccable personal attention. Drasha salons were by that time a feature of any even half-decent house of repose in every pleasure district in the British Isles, but once upon a time, when Xie debuted, there had been only one, and Xie had named it: the Icehouse."
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In a contemporary dystopia, Unity is peace--despite the fact unsanctioned information, illicit currency, and every sort of danger flows unchecked in the world's pleasure districts.John Watson, a weary hired gun, is assigned by the mysterious Mentor to investigate a subversive element lurking in the Icehouse, the world's most famous House of Repose. As accustomed as he is to dealing with the unexpected, John is nevertheless woefully unprepared to meet the gem of the Ice house, Xie, the world renowned "drashaskaya," the living work of art after which all other drashas are modeled.
In sumptuous suites, amid trailing puddles of silk and fervent whispers in the night, John soon learns that nothing is as it seems in the floating world of London's pleasure district.
*Modern-day dystopian/one-world government/espionage/geisha!lock AU
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