Welcome to Nagori - What Remains -
Hi. I'm a Japanese fic writer, and I've finally decided to bring my BBC Sherlock / Johnlock stories into English.
Nagori (名残) is a Japanese word for what a thing leaves behind once it's gone — the warmth still in a room after someone has left it, the sea still on the sand after the wave has drawn back. Not the memory of a thing. The trace of it, still here.
There are six of these stories, written over the years in Japanese. I'm now translating, revising, and letting them loose in English for the first time — a few are already up, the rest are on their way.
Two of them sit just before The Sign of Three — after Sherlock's return, in the days around John's wedding:
Last Waltz, Reverse Turn. Three days before John's wedding, Sherlock teaches him to waltz. It is supposed to be their last lesson.
Land's End The morning after, Sherlock puts John in a car and drives west. Neither of them quite knows what they're running towards — or away from.
The others pick up after that hug at the end of The Lying Detective, and go somewhere I needed them to go.
Everything's gathered on AO3 now, as a series: The Reverse Turn. I post here too — stories, and notes on what I was trying to do in them.
Apparently this is what I'm doing with my life now.
Welcome.
