You've Been to Eden, I Perceive (short story)
You've Been to Eden, I Perceive was a short story written by Aristide Twain in 2022. It was a fan fiction of the novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett and the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Plot
In a quiet London bookshop the angel Aziraphale passes the time in quiet solitude until he discovers the famous and fictional detective Sherlock Holmes perusing his books. To meet a fictional character is quite unexpected – but of the various explanations he quickly discovers that the responsible party is Jenny Everywhere.
Jenny explains that she borrowed Holmes from the Interdimensional Library, which creates solid projections of fictional characters to serve as librarians, and hopes this gesture of apology will make up for her previous carelessness with a cup of cocoa near his first editions.
Worldbuilding
Jenny Everywhere
The story features an unspecified incarnation of Jenny Everywhere who's known Aziraphale for some time.
Aziraphale
The angel Aziraphale's internal monologue reveals this story is set after the events of the novel Good Omens.
Sherlock Holmes
This Holmes is not a naturally occurring human but an artificial being created by the Interdimensional Library.
Continuity
The title alludes to the first line Sherlock Holmes speaks to Doctor John Watson, "How are you? You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive." (A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle, 1887)
