The address on the parcel has been smudged and looks vaguely like your own, but you're quite sure you never sent away to someone for a potion that does...something? You open the parcel nonetheless, where you find this note and a small vial of a pale purple liquid.

20th July, 1891

As promised. Half should be taken in tea (the simpler the brew the better) and the other half divided and dropped into each eye.. Avoid mixing with chamomile, for I cannot promise doing so won't have averse effects. Expect duration of six to twelve hours, depending on your stature. Should anything go amiss, a basic antidote should remedy if taken swiftly. I must remind you that such enhanced senses can be troubling for some, and must trust that you are of strong character and constitution.

Thank you for your patronage,

I.

PLOT SPROUT: A misdelivered parcel from Idunn's Secret Summer Potions Business has shown up at your home. You're not entirely sure what the potion does, but you hold onto it. Whether you take it or give it to someone else, well, that's up to you, but the effects of the sense-enhancing tonic (ALL the smells! ALL the sounds! See for MILES!) could be a blessing or a curse...

  

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There were few people who sent mail to his London home, and although owls often found their way to him there, it wasn't often that the envelope bore the London address - and this one barely did.  The name was ineligible but it could be his, the senior footman had certainly seemed to think so.  He had left it with another few letters on the desk in his study. 

Unwrapping it, he found the vial of purple liquid and it's accompanying note - it could be nothing, it could be incongruous - a letter gone astray, it could even be something Titania or his sister had procured for him but it felt odd that neither had mentioned it.  He tapped the vial on the desk -enhanced senses were what was purportedly on offer - it was almost tempting

His position meant he had no shortage of enemies -  people they had locked up, families of criminals or victims who felt that justice had failed them.  He got up and went to the fireplace and threw in a handful of flu powder '(member of department of investigations) are you free?'

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