Treat for Graycardinal: Frogs and Lobsters

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Title: Frogs and Lobsters
Recipient: graycardinal
Author: colebaltblue
Verse: Enter the Lion
Characters/Pairings: Mycroft Holmes, the First and Second Lords Hornblower
Rating: All Audiences
Warnings: none
Summary: "Interspersed among the regimental colours and drums were pictorial representations, executed with exacting detail, of fighting ships from those of the galleons of Frobisher and Ralegh, fighting ships which included Drake’s The Golden Hind and the more recent four-deckers of Nelson and Hornblower." — Enter the Lion: A Posthumous Memoir of Mycroft Holmes

What is fanfic if not taking one throwaway line in one pastiche and writing a whole little story around it?

( Frogs and Lobsters )