"That you know of," Holmes feels compelled to point out. "And sadly, I lean toward the destruction theory, though I suspect it will be accidental, rather than by deliberate action."
"In and of themselves, they were nothing ominous, just extremely odd," he relates. "The spotting of some unusual creature here, reports of a singing book there. But if you took all of them together, which no one had done before, a pattern emerged. I have never been fond of ascribing madness or mass hysteria to events. Where there is smoke, there is bound to be fire, even if it's just a spark. Oh," he snaps his fingers. "And then there's Loch Ness. Definitely more than a spark there."