I'm going to be giving a few previews of my new multi-chapter fic while you and I both wait for it to be finished. Here, they are searching for evidence that a local "sorcerer" is involved in the crime they're investigating...
Preview I - Kaavelan's Rooms
Holmes stooped to get a better look at the markings carved into the side of the furniture piece, moving slowly around the corner as he ran his fingers along the scratched symbols. Suddenly, his gray felt hat knocked into something and fell into the floor. Holmes picked it up and stood to shake the ungodly amount of dust from it when he found himself face-to-face with the offending object. It was another cage, only more obviously meant to house beasts of the air and not of land.
Where are the birds, then? he wondered to himself, peeping into the cage. Ah. There they are.
Two parrots, feathers black as pitch, lay in the bottom, stiff and open-eyed.
Holmes sniffed, blinked, and returned to his undertaking. Having abandoned the desk, he proceeded to wander about the room in his own peculiar fashion, examining random objects that caught his eye.