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[singlefaith]

E-excuse me.

[There’s a young woman with wide blue eyes on the screen. She presses her lips together briefly, trying to find the right words.]

Is . . . there a way to get a message home? Either with this or with my phone?

[She has the strong sense that there isn’t any more than there is to get home in the first place. But she has to at least ask and eliminate the option before she can go any further.]

I just don’t want them to worry about me.

[Though in all truth, she’s not sure she’s completely ready for the answer.]

And Dad and Conan-kun . . . they’ll have to figure out dinner. And Sonoko may have to take some notes for me . . . for a while.

[She trails off, pressing her lips together, looking away again. Only for a moment, though, before she pulls herself back, doing her best to summon a smile.]

Thank you in advance.

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[singlefaith]

[She's not far from the entrance, having returned where he could easily spot her. Hopeful light comes back into her face at the sight of him, and in a moment, he'll find himself caught into a hug.]

Are you okay?

[From all that she's seen so far, it's a big, uncertain place here. And from what little she knows so far, possibly dangerous.]

When did you get here?

[spoilsfun]

[He squirms a little as she catches him in the hug, but then relaxes and looks up at her.]

I'm okay. I've been here a few days, but nothing much has happened.

[singlefaith]

[Her only "tell" at the moment might be holding on just a moment too long, squirms or not, the hug just slightly too fierce.]

[Coming away, blue eyes stare back at him.]

I guess . . . it's true what that other person said. Time doesn't pass at home. You weren't missing at all.

[This is an awful thought -- the idea that someone could be missing and you never knew they were gone or in trouble.]

[spoilsfun]

Well, I guess its good to have proof. I didn't really believe that when someone told me.

[singlefaith]

[This is one of his very adult-sounding moments -- when a wry, older voice sneaks into his speech. It always reminds her a lot of Shinichi.]

[For the moment, she doesn't comment on it, settling in full onto her knees -- both a slow release and a means to stay at his eye level.]

There's no one else from home here, is there?

[spoilsfun]

I haven't seen anyone else, and I've been exploring for the last few days.

[singlefaith]

[That's both a relief and not. Good that no one else has wound up here, and not in that more familiar faces would be welcome right now.]

[Gently, because it sounds like he's getting invested here if he's been exploring:] We should go home.

[spoilsfun]

We can't go home.

[Well, maybe Ran could. But Conan couldn't leave. Not knowing there was a threat to their home here that he could do something to stop. ]

[singlefaith]

[Her eyebrows press inward a bit.]

We don't belong here, Conan-kun.

[spoilsfun]

Maybe. But did anyone tell you what could happen if they can't stop the corruption here?