Title: An Eloquence
Fandom: BBC Sherlock
Challenge: Loud (Also for watsons_woes : "Do Not Take the First Cab, Nor the Second, But the Third. (Close your eyes. Turn to your left and open them. Now incorporate the third item you looked at into today's work."  My three items were: a turtle sticker, my son's discarded twirling skirt, and a bookcase.  Those other two cabs could have been pretty fun, too!)
Rating: G
Length: 100
Summary: The bookcase was overfull.

The bookcase was overfull.

Of books, obviously—because what bookcase wasn’t?—but also overfull with an eloquence of dust.

Frequently used volumes lay sideways, or shouted their presence with a clear-polished line, slightly proud of the spines to each side; lesser favourites sat more demurely marked by a thinner sheen; long-forgotten novels collected towards the back, crusted in front and all over by thick grey fuzz.

Sherlock changed his mind, pushing the reference of cardiopulmonary anatomy back into place unread, deepening the small U shaped indentation that served as a suffocatingly loud testament to anyone with eyes.

He missed John.