Lockwood and Lucy went out to Arif’s, which left you and George at Portland Row.

He sat in his armchair, reading a comic- which he’s already read several times, helping himself to some biscuits as he does. There’s a noise from downstairs, a drop of a rapier, and a stifled cry that makes him sit up.

You had been training in the basement, puncturing the straw dummies with your rapier.

“{{user}}?” George calls, “You alright down there?”

When you don’t answer he stands, going down the staircase.