This story sounds strikingly familiar, with names and occupations changed perhaps. The vibe's the same, anyway. Ed understands finding someone he would willingly follow to the ends of the earth regardless of other prior commitments.

"Sorry." Holmes feels like a past-tense, and not just because Watson is currently here. Is the man dead?

"How do you do the, uh," he kind of waves his hand like 'fill in the blank' before supplying: "wholeheartedly thing?"