Eighth Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[Conan smiles at the camera brightly and apologetically.  He needed to do some damage control for his rather noticeable return to Discedo.  At the least he could be glad that the camera had never turned on during his change.]

Sorry if I made anyone worry.  But I'm okay now!  Heiji-niichan found me!!

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[Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Of course. There was no need to worry so much.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

You disappeared for a week and then came back screaming like you were hurt. I think that's plenty of reason to worry.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

And now I'm back here. The same as before.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[Sorry Conan. Not getting off quite that easily.]

Did you get attacked when you got back? You sounded hurt.

And I know what a hurting yell sounds like, so please don't tell me that wasn't what it was. Just because I'm no good at lying doesn't mean I can't tell when other people are.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Sorry, Luke. I can't tell you the truth.]

A little, I guess. but really I just saw something that scared me.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[If he knew that, he'd be slightly less obnoxious about the whole situation. But then again, if he knew that then there wouldn't be any situation at all, would there?]

It's not nice to lie. Especially not to people who were worried about you.

[ooc: Sorry for the crap reply. My muse!Luke originally wanted to hang up on Conan but I decided I wouldn't allow that =/ ]

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[This was going to turn into another one of those scolding sessions, wasn't it.]

I'm not lying. I'm really not hurt at all.

[Video] Cranky Luke has cranky -_-

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[Luke remains completely unconvinced, and if he wasn't so busy being relieved Conan was actually all right he'd probably be a lot angrier than he was at the moment.]

[And it was taking a lot of effort not to turn off his communicator right then, too. He was not used to getting this cross with someone.]

You are a really bad liar. I am too, so I can tell.

[Luke grumbles something on the other side of the communicator, but it isn't said loud enough to be heard. He then looks elsewhere, off the screen, and mumbles:] Regardless, I'm glad you are all right even though you won't admit something was wrong.

[Video] Conan fails at defusing crankiness

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Conan crosses his arms behind his head and glances off to the side irritably.]

Believe what you want.

[Video] That's ok. I think his little rant has defused him a bit. Maybe.

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[When you're angry at someone, you're supposed to not want to talk for a while, so Luke tried to keep up the act for a bit, but at the end of a few minutes he realized he was just too happy Conan was back to stay so angry.]

Did you go home?

[Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

My memories suggest so.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Was it nice being home for a little while? Even if it was just for a little while.

[Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

It would have been if I had actually been home.

[Conan and Heiji do not believe in all this coming from different times silliness. Their working theory is that someone has developed some new mind manipulation techniques and has blocked certain memories from Conan's mind. And that the same people were stalking them long enough to perfectly mimic Conan's state at a certain point. Since Heiji is from a time that is still several months ahead of Conan.]

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[He didn't go home?]

What do you mean? If you didn't go home..where did you go..?

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I am only saying that there is no proof that I actually went home other than my memories. And there is no way to validate those. There are also several inconsistencies with the timing and details.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[There was a little part of him that became inwardly incredibly distressed by this. He'd always accepted much of what went on here at face value, if only because thinking too much on the matter made things make no sense whatsoever--including that sometimes people didn't always remember the same things or weren't from the same exact time. Conan's skepticism, however, is making him wonder if that meant that nobody ever got to really go home--especially if they came back.]

How could what you remember be wrong, though? For the most part we are in control of what we remember, it's not as though someone can just say that you ought to remember something that never happened and suddenly you do.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Memories have never been a reliable proof by themselves. There have always been ways that the human mind might be tricked or fooled. I don't know what method they might be using, but the possibility exists.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

So then..how would we know if we did go home, if we can't trust what we remember?

That doesn't quite make sense. Wouldn't someone have to know everything about home? What all of our friends and family are like, and every building and every class and every little decoration just right. How could someone do that?

[Then again, he and Layton had sort of fallen for the Future London trick, at least for a while..]