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Encouragement: the act of giving hope or support to someone


"I - think we can - make it," Holmes said. "Hold still, Watson!"

"It is not easy to stay still with you standing on my shoulders! How can you only eat enough to feed a bird, yet still weigh so heavy?"

How did we get in this position, you ask? We had been chasing Cole Roberts around the warehouse district of London, and he had trapped us in a cellar. Now, we were endevouring to escape before the Thames flooded the cellar completely. I was already up to my waist, and it was rising quickly.

"Holmes, can you go a bit faster? The water is coming in rapidly." I groaned with the effort of trying to keep Holmes steady on my shoulders.

Holmes glanced down at me in frustration. "I am trying, Watson! The water is making my lock pick rather slippery."

Suddenly, to our combined horror, the pick slipped from Holmes's hands, and fell with a splash into the water, now at my shoulders.

"We must try something else. Holmes, if I bent down, could you push the trapdoor?"

"Is there nothing else, Watson?"

"Nothing that will work in time. The water is at my chin already."

Holmes nodded, looking nervous. I grabbed his arm. "You can do this, Holmes. I believe."