sherlockbbc_fic | Prompting Part XXXII

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“You shouldn’t frighten them with your anger then,” Someone from behind him says. Sherlock’s back goes rigid. Had Mycroft’s minions somehow followed him without him noticing. Blasted. He was too angry to care of tails and shadows. “It’s rude to not acknowledge someone when they’re trying to talk to you too.” It said again and Sherlock is forced to look for the voice that in fact wasn’t behind him but above him.

Sherlock squints his eyes from the light, a star? He’d never had a star talk to him before. “Your light is too bright.” was the only thing he could say as he stares at the star above him. He heard a soft ‘Oh!’ before the brightness had dwindled and he can see the full feature of the star before him.

He was a yellow star. His hair’s bright and blonde like the light that shines within his chest. His brightness still within the range of youthfulness but Sherlock can see that this star has been living for a long time, longer than he had been. His light was dim but still bright enough to illuminate him. Stars had their light shine from their heart. This particular star had a fierce but wary light around him. And, oh! Stars should have the equal amount of light radiating from their heart, but this one… His has a dimmer part on his right than the rest. Sherlock brows furrowed, his mind seeking answers to his own question.

“Gravity or comet?” He asks as he stands up and calls one cloud with his staff.

The star looks at him in confusion, “I’m sorry?”

Sherlock steps into the cloud and orders it to go higher, closer to the star. “Which was it, Gravity or comet?” Sherlock raised a brow, unperturbed at the shifting of the star in distress.

“I don’t -“ The star stops and followed Sherlock’s unfaltering gaze. He purses his lips and looks around. “It was gravity.” He answers before soaring a bit higher to get more distance between them. “I’m sorry, but how did you…”

Sherlock points his staff on the star’s chest. “Your light is dimmer on the right than the other. It’s not a disease or because of age since you’ve not changed colour since you’ve been born and although you have been born quite sometime ago, Stars do not show fatigue until they’re about to die.” He gestures to the Star’s blonde hair and his chest, proving his point.

“So that leaves a fight with another star, although rare but uncommon but that would leave you in a more unsightly state. A comet would graze through you not fatally but you would lose part of your light to it and gravity would eat you and let you fall but you’re only lost some of your light so that means that you somehow been able to fight back and that (Sherlock points to his chest again) is the result of it.”

The star blinks at him, once, twice, a third time. “That is brilliant!” he exclaims, “I didn’t know cloud herders would be such.”

“Not many cloud herders are, I’m the only one.” Sherlock says.

The star flies closer, “But how did you know all that?”

“I observe.” He answers looking to the star and gazing back to the night sky. In the distance he can hear his clouds’ thunders starting to calm and the rain’s hissing on the ground starting to dwindle. In about an hour or so, his clouds would be ready to move again, perhaps back to the meadows of western France before returning back to the sinewy, smoggy skies of outer London.

“You’re brilliant, amazing! Although you have been wrong in one thing,”

Sherlock’s attention comes back to the star. He had something wrong? There’s always, always something, a minute detail that he somehow forgets to grasp.

“I wasn’t pulled by gravity, a friend was. I tried to stop him from falling but I failed. The backlash was the dimming.” The star explains and it seems like a click in Sherlock’s mind had made it clear.

“Tch. I didn’t see that. Clearly, a direct altercation with gravity would give you a greater effect, getting a milder backlash from the intended force would give you that diminished effect.” Sherlock grits his teeth, “Backslash,” He hissed to himself as if berating his mind on not being able to come to that conclusion in itself.

“You seem to have me all figured out, but I don’t even know who you are cloud herder.” The star says, and Sherlock stops from muttering expletives to himself and looks up to the star.

(oops sorry for the awkward cut)

Prompting Part XXXII

Catch a falling star and never let it fade part 2