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Advent Drabble 20 - Memories
Dec. 20th, 2020 10:13 pmRequested by MsLucySue
The thing about a mind palace was that it should have held everything securely. Every moment from Oliver’s childhood should have been perfectly stored there, on well-ordered shelves in well-laid-out rooms. And they were, they were all there. The problem was that the mind palace wasn’t perfect. It could store all the facts, but it remained impossible for Sherlock to fully recall the child he saw now as the infant he had been. He tried to remember Oliver’s feet being tiny, his speech being less precise, and utterly failed.
He didn’t need a mind palace, he needed a time machine.
The thing about a mind palace was that it should have held everything securely. Every moment from Oliver’s childhood should have been perfectly stored there, on well-ordered shelves in well-laid-out rooms. And they were, they were all there. The problem was that the mind palace wasn’t perfect. It could store all the facts, but it remained impossible for Sherlock to fully recall the child he saw now as the infant he had been. He tried to remember Oliver’s feet being tiny, his speech being less precise, and utterly failed.
He didn’t need a mind palace, he needed a time machine.
