It started with 'Sensual, seductive, subtle and something else starting with 'S' - Splendid!'
Skyping, he strained to see the seductive scene on the screen.
"So, Sherlock," she said. "Send some secrets soon!"
He surreptitiously switched on synchronisation with a satisfied smile - SEND - subvocal statement. Show her! Sherlock shut his screen and sat silently surveying his surroundings.
Sometimes she stimulated, sometimes she stirred it, so soured his spirits, suddenly stormy - spiteful siren! Sometimes seething in sarcastic spite. Sherlock stayed strong - survived somehow - scathed but sustained.
He struggled with such simpering speculation, selectively softhearted, saccharine sentimentality ...
Then sometimes splenetic Sherlock surfaced suddenly.