His face wrinkled up into a skeptical expression, and he waved a hand at her.
"Look at you. You're a trained killer, that much is obvious. Killing other people is as thoughtless as breathing for someone like you. Yet here I am--thirteen stab wounds and you didn't even sever the descending aorta and you only nicked the celiac artery. You had clear access to my throat, my eyes, my liver..."
Sherlock shook his head just slightly. "No trained killer stabs someone thirteen times without even one of the wounds being an instant kill unless they weren't actually trying to kill them, unless some part of their mind--even if it was an unconscious part of their mind--didn't want to kill."
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His face wrinkled up into a skeptical expression, and he waved a hand at her.
"Look at you. You're a trained killer, that much is obvious. Killing other people is as thoughtless as breathing for someone like you. Yet here I am--thirteen stab wounds and you didn't even sever the descending aorta and you only nicked the celiac artery. You had clear access to my throat, my eyes, my liver..."
Sherlock shook his head just slightly. "No trained killer stabs someone thirteen times without even one of the wounds being an instant kill unless they weren't actually trying to kill them, unless some part of their mind--even if it was an unconscious part of their mind--didn't want to kill."