[Any given individual presents a man like Holmes a deluge of information to garner, to interpret. There is no difference when it comes to this stranger he's found knocking at his door, though there are instances when one attribute is so pronounced that it temporarily tamps down all else.
Needless to say, that whirring mechanical eye? It qualifies. So much so that Sherlock cannot help himself but wear an expression of pure bafflement, followed soon by intrigue, stepping even closer to the boundary of invasion of personal space to get a better look. He's never seen anything like it. It's a bit like something from a penny dreadful.
And yet still, he smiles, clearly Invested despite not knowing what the heck is going on here.]
Oh, quite so. But not lacking the use of a pocket watch, surely? No matter. You call upon the residents of 221B in the dead of the night, and fortune presents you with one of them now. What business might you have here?
opens my arms and engulfs you into the void
Needless to say, that whirring mechanical eye? It qualifies. So much so that Sherlock cannot help himself but wear an expression of pure bafflement, followed soon by intrigue, stepping even closer to the boundary of invasion of personal space to get a better look. He's never seen anything like it. It's a bit like something from a penny dreadful.
And yet still, he smiles, clearly Invested despite not knowing what the heck is going on here.]
Oh, quite so. But not lacking the use of a pocket watch, surely? No matter. You call upon the residents of 221B in the dead of the night, and fortune presents you with one of them now. What business might you have here?