"Popular is definitely overrated," she says with a smile. "I think back on it and I know me and my little group of misfit friends were having loads more fun geeking out over science and making our own radio shows than the popular kids who were just trying to keep up with each other all the time. How stressful it must be, all that fitting in."

She smiles at him, assuming he was also an outsider like her. Although she imagines that while she was someone who nobody paid much attention to so she wasn't bullied so much, Sherlock would have been the kid to drawn more attention to himself and might have been more of a target. She imagines it's not all Eurus' fault for why he locked his emotions away.

"A coelacanth? Is that a type of fish? I don't think we had those in Portsmouth."