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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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[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.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

There are plenty of "ghost-like" species out there.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Species?

How many of those ghost-like species remember getting shot in the head?

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to consider the difference between remembering something and claiming to remember something. It all boils down to trusting you or not.

[A moment of consideration, then he grins. There's something a bit more reckless and flippant about him than about a 'normal' Hakuba Saguru.]

Well, since you haven't attacked me, I suppose I'll trust you for now.

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Naturally.

Thanks for your confidence.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

Only until you attack me. Then I suppose I'll run screaming.

So, alternate universes?

[deaduction.livejournal.com]

Tempting as that is, I'll pass.

Yes. I'm still alive in most of them.

[temporaltantei.livejournal.com]

If you say so.

Well, good for you.