Written for the LiveJournal community Watsons_Woes for their July Writing Prompts challenge. The prompt for day 21 was: lost comet. Use however this inspires you - whether it's the phrase, the idea, or an actual 'lost' comet, such as the one rediscovered in 1894 (among other years).
_Lost Things_
"Oh, look, they've found a lost comet," I commented as I read the evening papers.
"It was not lost," Holmes said irritably; a lack of cases had him in a foul mood. "It is arrogant to call it lost simply because we do not know enough to properly track its orbit."
"I thought you didn't know anything about astronomy."
"I know enough about science to recognize when absurd assertions are made."
"What about your cufflinks? Are they lost?" I teased.
Holmes scowled at the reminder that his nicest pair of cufflinks was nowhere to be found. "They are merely misplaced."