[Sherlock stares at this woman like she's grown an extra head -- an event that would be both surprising and horrifying to him, even if for her, it would be Tuesday.]
I, I-I-I am asleep, [he stammers.] I am -- still dreaming. Yes! That must be it.
[He's handling this great. (He isn't.)
Another possibility occurs to him: is he in a sanitarium? The way the woman before him has worried her lips to the point of bleeding makes Sherlock wonder -- but the possibility is rapidly dismissed. There is no smell of medicine or industrial cleaners, no locks on the windows, and there's the knife on the wall -- certainly not something that would be permitted to patients recovering from mental breaks.
There's also the distinct lack of supervision, and the fact that he's been left alone with another person. No, no -- unlikely.
Still. He wonders if this woman is quite sane. There may be something wrong with her -- not that Sherlock is any different.]
cw: mentions of self harm, institutionalization, mental illness, ableism/internalized ableism
I, I-I-I am asleep, [he stammers.] I am -- still dreaming. Yes! That must be it.
[He's handling this great. (He isn't.)
Another possibility occurs to him: is he in a sanitarium? The way the woman before him has worried her lips to the point of bleeding makes Sherlock wonder -- but the possibility is rapidly dismissed. There is no smell of medicine or industrial cleaners, no locks on the windows, and there's the knife on the wall -- certainly not something that would be permitted to patients recovering from mental breaks.
There's also the distinct lack of supervision, and the fact that he's been left alone with another person. No, no -- unlikely.
Still. He wonders if this woman is quite sane. There may be something wrong with her -- not that Sherlock is any different.]