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Title: Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight ACD)
Characters: Mr Sherlock Holmes, Dr John Watson
Summary: Bring out your pitchforks and torches
Warning: (Cheating. All the cheating. So much cheating!)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 8th 2018 prompt: Use one of the following Descriptive Phrases in your work today. Broken blade / Police station / Rheumatoid arthritis / Secret society / Vox populi, vox dei / Danger zone / Performance issues / Rapid fire (Bonus point if you use all of them).

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'It's not rheumatoid arthritis, Holmes, it's ennui. Perhaps a concert will distract you.'

After the grand performance, issues of the evening newspapers were circulating. New higher taxes were coming despite the government's efforts to keep it secret. Society in general, specifically the poor, took to the streets. Radicals bombed a police station.

Although the City Brigade's response was rapid, fire spread quickly. To minimise the public's exposure to danger, zone one, immediately surrounding the blast, was cordoned-off.

'The government will fall,' Holmes predicted. 'They've lost the people's trust. A broken blade cannot be mended but must be forged anew.'

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Supplementary Notes: Bonus point get = yup