More Things That Never Happened to Sherlock Holmes

by Pompey

On-going series of AU drabbles and drabblets, some depressing and some funny. Updated as ideas strike me. Suggestions welcomed. Feel free to steal any AU that spawns a plot-bunny. Ch 97: the first rule of getting information out of people is Don't Be A Creeper.

70. Indian Possessions V

"He has just come from the tropics, for his face is dark, and that is not the natural tint of his skin, for his wrists are fair.' "

I snorted, interrupting him. "Hardly fair."

Holmes shrugged. "Fair enough to discern you had come from the tropics."

"Recently and originally, you mean," I muttered bitterly.

"Unless it has any bearing on crime, a man's background is nothing to me. Assumptions based on bloodlines are mere prejudice, and prejudice is an anathema to the rational mind," replied Holmes severely. "Now then. He has undergone hardship and sickness . . . "