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[The first time Conan wakes up, it is to a very familiar pain. Like his very bones were melting and reforming. He bites back a scream and falls unconscious again after only a few seconds..

The second time Conan wakes up he pushes himself up into a seated position and gropes for his glasses. Instead he accidentally knocks his communicator onto the floor as he reaches much too far, overbalancing and falling out of bed with a loud crash. After a stunned moment he sits back up and stares at himself in shock. He was in his real body.]

How? The last thing I remember...

[He cuts himself off, both in surprise at his own voice and at the memory. He shouldn't have survived that. He'd been able to calculate exactly what his captors' intentions had been, and there was no way he could have escaped from it without injury.

Shinichi stands up, hastily wrapping the sheet around himself, and strives to form a plan. First, he needed information. He needed to know where he was and what had happened. And he needed to get in contact with Hattori and Ran. Were they okay?

...Also, he needed clothes. Whatever this location was, the thin sheet he'd located was not nearly enough to ward off the chill.

So, information first. He reaches for the communicator and begins to compose a text message using the highest security he could think of. After a moment of thought he encodes it for the added security.]

[Locked 60% to Hattori]
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[Message sent, he stands up and wraps the sheet tightly around himself before making his way to the door.]

Hello? Is anyone here?

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I have to admit this hasn't been the best of days so far.

[He listens and gives Marco a flat look.]

That is all completely illogical.

What are you, a detective? You wake up naked in a hospital and the only problem you have is with the explanation. Fine fine. Get eaten again.

This is why I can't stand rookies.

Yes. I am known as the great detective of the east.

My lack of clothing is easily explained. Deprival of such familiar items is a well known tactic for increasing the stress of kidnapping victims.

But none of what you just told me is logically possible.

Right sure. Whatever dude. I'm sure crazy hallucinations always go away when you wish hard enough. In fact, do that and you'll get back home in no time.

In the meantime, this crazy hallucination will be over there when you're ready to try looking past things you can't immediately associate as being directly the same as you believe they should be, eh?

[And with hints of blue flames coating his arms, he walks to another side of the room to look out the window, and completely switches his arms into wings to lean under them.]

[ooc: aaaah sorry... he gets this way in canon too. Sort of the whole being a phoenix and living in crazy world. Feel free to just ignore him if Shinichi would; or whatever you think he'd do.]

You were the one who brought up the question of hallucinations.

[He takes note of that trick, but doesn't address it. Yet. Even a mystery nut like Shinichi would take the time to get dressed first. He takes the time to duck into the bathroom for a few seconds. When he steps out he is fully dressed in the most formal of the clothing Marco had brought.]

And Sherlock Holmes once said this. There should be no question that the human mind cannot conceive of an explanation for.

All right, but often the simplest explanation is the best. Rather than wondering how ocean can flow up; instead of deciding you must be upside down and walking on your hands to fix it, maybe just look up to see what's causing it to get sucked up there in the first place.

Figure out for yourself if this world is what it seems. The important thing is to survive getting that far or you'll just keep winding up back here.

The simplest explanation is always the best, but only when that explanation is possible. There is no sense in resorting to outrageous explanations when there are still mundane explanations that have not been disproven. The art of the detective is to balance probabilities and choose the most likely.

Mundane explanations are not necessarily simpler. Particularly if it's just denial.

I only accept what can be proven to be fact. Anything else would only be gullibility.

All right, but how do you disprove something if it's the truth? If you have to disprove everything else it'll take too to be relevant.

Watch the night skies, trust your own five senses. Plenty of people here not human. They have entire lives from different worlds than your own. Even if all those were lies, they're too elaborate to have a purpose. Nor does it get you out of here and back home. Things here aren't as they seem, but if you get too bound in disproving illusions that aren't illusions, you'll miss out the big picture and die. [Just turns fully into a phoenix and keeps looking out the window. The flames can't burn or spread, just keep him safe and sparkle.]

When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. As a detective, it is my job to seek out the one and only truth.

[He observes the transformation calmly, calculating all the possible methods that could have been used for such a trick.]

[Switches back as casually as he switched in the first place.]

What makes you so certain what you deem impossible is truly impossible? I've seen the impossible done before mate, and you're young yet.

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[action] Haha, no worries. Shinichi is being very cautious to not let on what he knows about Disc

[action] lol that's cuz he's smart

[action] He needs to be a genius just to keep track of all the lies he's telling

[action] lol sounds familiar.

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