New Skies

Picture, if you will, our two heroes, J___ and S______. One is tall, the other short; one is dark-haired, the other blond. When we begin our tale, at their first meeting, one is despondent and haunted by the past; the other might just be his passport to a new life of adventure. Of the pair, one or the other of them also: plays the violin; is a crack shot; has a relative involved in the British government; is a Captain with a history of military service; displays a predilection for addictive substances; has a reputation with the ladies; conducts gruesome experiments with human body parts and other biological substances often best left unidentified; has a strange fascination with insects; speaks a foreign language fluently (his grandmother was from abroad); and wanted to go to sea as a child.Wait, which universe are we in again?Sherlock / Aubrey-Maturin crossover with a generous sprinkling of ACD: Two men meet at a concert in Port Mahon one night. The rest is alternate history waiting to be written...