Holmes and Watson in Kith
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They keep eating, slightly subdued.

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Between bites she tells them things she's thought of that will be useful to them about the language.

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Complex tenses! Interesting differences in what prepositions should be used in what circumstances! Other useful things! They're very appreciative. 

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And she also tries to smooth out a couple of the roughest edges of their accents.

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They'll probably never sound exactly like native speakers, especially Watson, but they can at least get easier to understand.

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And eventually she goes to bed.

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They do likewise. After breakfast the next morning Watson goes back to the clinic, and Holmes goes to the housing office nearest the house he liked.

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The housing office is not very busy; he can be seen after a seven minute wait.

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He mentions the specific house he took a liking to and asks if anyone has claimed it.

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"Hmm - nope, the previous occupants moved out when one of them died, a couple of weeks ago. It's been cleaned up and it's available. How many will you be living with?"

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"One other person."

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"Names?"

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"Sherlock Holmes and John Watson."

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"How do you like to write those?"

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He demonstrates the characters Miriqua helped him and Watson come up with.

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The clerk writes them in and asks after the addresses of their workplaces in case they need to be found promptly for house-related reasons.

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Watson is at the office of Doctors Beretn and Risan on such and such a street; Holmes plans to work out of his house. 

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And it's theirs! They can move right in. (There is no transfer of key; they do not usually bother to lock houses on this round.)

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Moving their stuff is trivial, since they didn't accumulate much beyond toiletries and a couple changes of clothes. Now that they no longer have a move in the future, they can change that. Holmes ventures forth to look for a glassblower, a chemical shop, and an instrument-maker, starting with whichever is closest.

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There is an instrument maker closer than either of the other things. She's a cheery prole winding strings around a wooden body to make a lutelike thing. "Hello!"

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"Hello! Can you make new instruments from a description?"

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"I can try! Drawings will help, and anything you can tell me about its range and timbre."

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He can draw a precisely-proportioned picture of his violin, down to notes on which way the wood grain should go where. His musical vocabulary in this language is still somewhat limited, but if the instrument-maker will let him play example notes on some of her other wares he can draw extensive comparisons.

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She's happy to demonstrate! She does have some bowed string instruments, tuned differently from his violin.

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Those are very interesting. He would like his tuned a bit differently, in thus and such a way, he can demonstrate on that one if she doesn't mind him messing up the tuning it's got.

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