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[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

[This particular Hakuba Saguru is blinking awake from his position on the floor, obviously rather disoriented.]

Oh, what now?

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[deaduction.livejournal.com]

[If the last person Shinichi had talked to hadn't been Hakuba, Shinichi might be more inclined to take this at face value. But he was, and the Doctor's lack of surprise isn't helping Shinichi's assumptions any.]

You're on the floor this time.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

This time? As opposed to... last time?

[Picking himself up off the floor, brushing imaginary dirt off the tweed fabric of his three-piece suit.]

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

As opposed to last time.

[And now that you're standing up and that suit is rather more visible -- well, Shinichi will be pausing for thought.]

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

A last time which I have no recollection of. Possibly actually a next time.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Could be.



Well, enjoy your stay!

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

What? No more information than that?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise. After all, you're going to hear this twice, aren't you?

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

Not very helpful are you?

Planet? Year? Nothing?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Do I look like a tape-recorder? I've had this conversation with you once today already.

Although this is the first time you've asked about planets.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

You haven't had a conversation with me yet because I haven't been here.

[pause]

Tape-recorder? Oh brilliant, I'm really off track.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

All right. Conversation with a you from an alternate Universe then.

[Pause. Oops.]

Not that you need a tape-recorder.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

An alternate universe?

[Very very concerned.]

Are you quite certain?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

It's that, or one of you has a very bad memory.

Positive. No cameras either.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

What? Oh, I meant about the alternate universe. You're quite certain?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

It's a theme to this place. There's only a few people here, but you'll see a lot of them.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

That should be impossible.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Then what's your theory?

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

Well, I would have to actually meet one of my "doubles" in order to figure out anything. There are hundreds of possibilities.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

I could tell you about the me's I've met -- or do you need first-hand data for your theories?

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

That depends on if you're observant and intelligent enough to have gathered any useful information. Most humans aren't.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

True.

I'll leave you to it.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

Not very friendly, are you?

At least give me the year and the planet, if that's not going to tax your mind over-much.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

You're thinking 'Casper.'

I can give you the year I died, but after that -- time and place doesn't seem to mean much here.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

... You don't honestly expect me to believe you're a ghost, do you?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Most people seem to find me pretty convincing.