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Shinichi was woken by a dull ache in his shoulder, the pain prodding insistently through his sleeping mind. He grumbled quietly and made to roll over, the ache in his shoulder abruptly becoming a stab that made him hiss and wince, grabbing at it as he opened his eyes.

--oh, that was right. He was in the infirmary. He winced again as he sat up, taking his surroundings into stock. He'd... yes, Kid had bitten him, seemingly thrown off his psychotic fit, and ... Shinichi explored his shoulder gingerly. And had bandaged his wounds.

"Kid...?" ventured Shinichi quietly into the empty room, just in case he was squirreled away in a corner. No answer, predictably, so he swung his legs off the edge of the bed, easing his way to his feet carefully.

First things first, find some decent clothes, since his top was gone, and the pants were... Well. He'd look like an idiot in hakama and the scrubs he hoped would be in here.

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Shinichi's face had slowly grown more skeptical as Kid kept speaking, until it simply dropped off the edge of scepticism into confusion. He paused before speaking, reordering what Kid had said and trying to organise the weirdness in his head.

"Paralell universes. And we're.. what, in a nexus of some kind?" asked Shinichi to confirm. "So there's not only plenty of.. us's but other people here as well... is this place expandable somehow, to account for sudden influxes of people?"

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Kid's face pulled into a comical moue. "Don't ask me things I'm still trying to figure out myself," he complained, at once amused and comforted by Kudou's confusion.

"To your first question, I would say so. That's what one of your chibi versions called it sometime back. I arrived only a week earlier than you did..." Kid trailed off for a moment, lost in thought, "Or two. Time works funny here." Not to mention he spent most of his time with other sort of problems that prevented him from socializing too much. "It may be possible that new arrivals push out some of the previous 'occupants'. Apparently people leave, but no one figured out how yet."

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"Okay..." said Shinichi, still deep in thought. "So theoretically, for the most accurate information, I'd need to find the inhabitant who's been here the longest. I'm also going to need to explore... Is there anything odd about this place apart from it being a nexus?"

He finished with a coug, the sound notably chestier than it had been earlier.

"Great," rasped Shinichi with a grimace. On top of everything else, my cough's gotten worse.

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"Besides everything?" Kid kicked off from his leaned back position to hunch forward to face his rival. "Oi oi, you've been coughing a lot. Are you okay?"

"This Mansion is a fickle lady," he continued while keeping a watchful eye on Kudou as if fearing he may fold up at any time. "She seems to have an undetermined amount of rooms, floors, and areas. Rather, all of them can shift on you. I was wandering down the same few halls for hours before you showed up." Giving the detective another look, Kid hopped down from his perch and rummaged through one of the neat looking cabinets on the top shelf along the wall. When he emerged his head from one, he tossed a pack of cold medicine over to the meitantei.

"I'll go with you if you want to go exploring."

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"M'fine," said Shinichi, waving off Kid's concern. He was. Really. His cough was just a bit worse, was all.

"Hm. I wonder if--" Shinichi broke off mid-sentance to catch the cold meds, making sure that they were non-drowsy before cracking them open and taking some.

"Thanks," he said in answer to Kid's offer, then paused, frowning at the thief. "Aren't you worried that I'm going to put you in handcuffs?"

Not that he had any on him, but the point still stood. Kid was acting awfully friendly - for all he might not be his own Kid, he would have still expected a little more wariness around him.

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Kid wondered if the cold addled the meitantei's brain, but he beamed a toothy grin sans fangs nonetheless. "I was never worried about that, meitantei-san. But should you be well enough to try now, you will find it's even more lacking here."

He moved back to his vacated seat and hopped back onto his perch. "Please don't take this wrong, but I have bigger concerns here."