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Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try
To fix you
- "Fix You," made famous by Coldplay
He needs something. He barely eats, barely talks, barely even moves. You cannot help him no matter what you do. If you can't help him, who can?
You don't know who ho turn to. He would be mortified if you told. You stoop so low as to call Mycroft. He refers you to a therapist: Sylvia Canfield.
He doesn't want to go. But he's forced to because Mycroft threatens to send a car. When he comes back he's changed. It's not a big change, more like one wave's erosion of a cliff.
You only hope he'll get better.