Before
Dr. Watson can join billy and Sherlock in their new enterprise he has to resign
his current position. Now it probably goes without saying that billy can not
identify the actual name of John’s employer here, but suffice to say it is a
workplace like most work places, a cubicle farm that has become the ubiquitous
scenery of the 21 century employment scene. John it would appear works in the
creepiest place on earth. He sits in one of the smallest and most forwardly
positioned cells of a group, meaning there is constantly someone situated
behind him. The work stations are oriented so that in a normal working position
his back faces the common access area, where not only people
that belong in his cell block come and go, potentially anyone in the building
can move freely behind him at any time. Normally his back faces this well
trodden path (yes trodden, check out the ingrained dirt) by no more than six
feet. Even creepier, no one moves with the same agility. He can hear some
people coming from miles away as they tromp up and down (a distraction in its
own rite), others move so silently, as if attempting to glide over rice paper
without so much as a whisper. This environment breeds a mixture of justifiable
paranoia and constant distraction, or anticipation thereof. John can’t wait to
join billy and Sherlock. billy asks, rhetorically: {a beat} Is this not CREEPY?
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