Hellooo! Lately I’m literally producing metas in such a short amount of time but I think this one beats them all. Nearly at the end of The Final Problem when John and Sherlock were rebuilding Baker Street the camera shows the floor where there are some unidentified books except ONE: ‘The Eight’ by Katherine Neville.

I didn’t know anything about it (but it seemed weird to include a detail like this) so I decided to look it up and I found something very suspicious and interesting indeed:

This fascinating adventure-fantasy tells the story of the quest for the Montglane Service, a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne, which contains the key to a dangerous and powerful secret. The pieces, the chessboard, and the cover for the chess set contain symbols which translate into a formula. Whoever deciphers the formula will have immense power over the world. The quest is carried out by two brave, intelligent heroines in two different time periods: Mireille de Remy, a novice nun at the time of the French Revolution, and Catherine Velis, a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm in the 1970s. Neville moves back and forth between the two stories, in alternating chapters, so that the novel itself is structured like a spiral or a figure 8.

Reminds you of something? (By the way I heard that there was a problem with these ‘promotional pictures’ because someone leaked them in a blog and it became a huge scandal ‘cause it was apparently a huge spoiler)

So basically the chess game is the key to solve The Final Problem. But didn’t we see this Chess-thing already?

But it wasn’t really Chess was it?

It was all about a heart. And the lines Sherlock says just after this are VEEERY telling:

So, established this, I’m gonna connect this with what I said in the previous meta (https://leleonora2000.tumblr.com/post/184574490089/sherlocks-fears-and-feelings) Mycroft wasn’t wise enough, he wasn’t able to handle Eurus (Eros), Sherlock’s heart.

And another thing I wanted to add about ‘The Eight’s Plot’ (the one I found on wikipedia) is:

The Eight, published December 27, 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. It is a postmodern thriller in which the heroine, accountant Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of the Montglane Service, a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne.

Sounds familiar? ;)

she left his arms to munch on later

My sister, Kakkoiikatana: (in regards to the two year deviation for when Okita Souji was born) Obviously, it's Kodo's fault. He burned it!