First Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[A small boy, no older than six or seven, is peering into the camera with a look of deep concentration. Suddenly his expression subtly shifts into a childish expression of worry.]

Ne! Ne! Is anyone there? I just found this device here, and it seems a little like a cell phone. But my phone isn't working. Isn't that strange?

Is there a police officer anywhere? At school they said I should find one if I got lost.  And I can't find Ran-neechan anywhere!

Comments

[ audio ]

[monsterwine.livejournal.com]

Time doesn't move outside of this fragment, so there's nothing to worry about, alright....?

Re: [ audio ]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Okay!

[Oi, oi, time will stand still? What kind of statement is that?]

[ audio ]

[monsterwine.livejournal.com]

So, is there anything else you want to know?

Re: [ audio ]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Has anyone ever met the scientists? They're the mean people who brought us here, right?

[ audio ]

[monsterwine.livejournal.com]

That's right. The likelihood of someone meeting them is 1/153485738924783, especially since the pieces of this fragment come and go.

[ audio ]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a big number!

[ audio ]

[monsterwine.livejournal.com]

It's not big at all. It's the smallest probability of all. [ yeah, you're not fooling her, boy. after all, she knows rika, who acts like a kid but is in fact over a hundred. ]

Re: [ audio ]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Ahhh? Is it? I don't know very much math yet. But that had a lot of numbers in it!

Re: [ audio ]

[monsterwine.livejournal.com]

It is. And I guarantee that.