008 | Kudou Shinichi | [ text ]

[miniholmes]

The ABC Murders was a really good read. I definitely recommend it! And if you've already read it then I'd be more than up for discussing how great it was.

I mean, Obviously, Poirot's not even close to better than Sherlock Holmes but he's pretty good.

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[herrin]

He is indeed singular.

But not nearly as special as he thinks he is, no.

[braveatheart]

And you are?

[herrin]

Irene Adler.

Though I certainly don't expect you to have heard from me.

[braveatheart]

You'd be right.
Are you 'unique' too?

[herrin]

Yes.

Though everyone is, in a way. Some more than others.

[braveatheart]

Not long ago I would have said that something like that was just another way of saying that nobody was unique.

[herrin]

I rather think we're all normal because we're unique. If one wasn't unique, they'd be less than normal.

[braveatheart]

That's a pleasantly optimistic way of looking at it.

[herrin]

You don't agree?

[braveatheart]

That's a complicated question.

[herrin]

I have time.

[braveatheart]

I should ask first if you're familiar with a supposed work of fiction about a boy called Harry Potter.

[herrin]

Oh, yes. They're quite popular in the UK and America at the moment.

.. Your name on this network is James Potter. I normally wouldn't ask, but given the context - any relation?

[braveatheart]

He's my son.

[herrin]

Ah. Therein would lay the problem.

In my world, he is fictional. However, take heart; in another world I'm a woman out of her time.

[braveatheart]

Can you explain?

[herrin]

Apparently, your son is not the only one to feature in a book.

I'm a minor character, however.

[braveatheart]

Minor characters can have more of an impact than you might think.

[herrin]

Oh, I would hope so.

However, it is quite jarring to find you're a supporting player in someone else's story.

[braveatheart]

You seem to have taken it very well.

[herrin]

I do my best.

[braveatheart]

Now I feel a little impolite for not knowing who you are.

[herrin]

Oh, don't. I actually prefer it.

[braveatheart]

Too many people aware of the intimate moments of your life?
I could see that getting uncomfortable.

[herrin]

Yes, quite.
You feel the same?