Two Detectives on a Train....

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Who: Conan and Sera
What: Catching Up
When: Morning, Horseshoe 13
Where: On the way to the LIbrary Car

For once, the mission hadn't ended in injuries or drama. There hadn't even been any murders. 

So Conan settles back into life on the train easily. Although not without a heightened sense of paranoia due to a certain familiar face.

Today he had finally gotten around to gathering up his collection of mystery novels. The mystery section in the new library was nearly empty,and it was time to fix that. He carefully navigates his way through the train cars with a tall stack of books balanced in his arms.

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[Masumi is headed the other way through the train when she sees Conan with his books. Not even hesitating, she immediately turns to walk alongside him, eyebrows raised at the amount of books being in the stack.]

“You need some help with those? That’s a lot of books to carry for one person.”

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[And he still had more books back in his cabin. He was going to have to make several trips.]

If you want! I'm taking these over to the library car.

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“Library it is, then!” [She takes part of the stack from Conan, noting that they seemed to be mysteries from what she could tell.]

“This is a lot of books here. Did you order all of these in?”

[She wouldn’t put it past him to do that.]

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"Over the past few months," he says agreeably. The topic of books always put him in a better mood. "Books aren't too expensive through the store if you pick the random option."

After regaining a few of his more useful tools, he'd spent all of his points on books.

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"The random option, huh? I bought one book, but I didn't use that option."

[Might want to keep that in mind for next time, then!

But that aside, Masumi still has an ulterior motive here, so that hasn't changed much.]

"...Some of these books look pretty advanced for a kid your age though. Did the train really randomize these for you?"

[Always worth a shot.]

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[ Fortunately the randomizer gave him the perfect excuse. The most advanced book he'd collected was the alternate version of Holmes, and he'd never made a secret of being able to read that.]

That's right! Some of them were hard to read, but they were still interesting.

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"That's great, then. Hopefully you liked what you got."

[If Masumi really wanted this conversation, she could just, you know, say what she meant instead of beating around the bush. But the hinting was embedded into her approach by now, unfortunately.

Deciding to just move on, she glanced back at the books she was carrying, curious about just what had been randomly picked.]

"So what did you think of the books you got? I got a weird one about a kid getting kidnapped from a void train hub when I tried ordering a book."

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I'm still disappointed that I couldn't get a decent copy of Holmes. The shop just gave me a book that was similar. The same thing happened when someone gave me a copy of the Poirot books. They're similar stories and characters, but not the same thing. But they're decent reads, I guess.

[ They just weren't Holmes. ]

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“That’s weird. It can’t get an actual Holmes story here, but it can get all these other books?”

[Something to test, perhaps? Name off a buch of books she knows exist back home to see what happens?]

“Do you think it would do that if I asked for, say, a Night Baron novel?”

[To be fair, she did genuinely like those books and wanted to see if she could get one or not.]

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And that isn't the only case of something like that. Someone else gave me a mystery novel from their world, and it was another variation on Holmes and Watson.

[ A shrug.]

The only way is to answer that is to test it.

[Conan much preferred this topic over whatever she had planned to discuss. ]

[tactlesstantei]

"Now I have to try and order books to see what happens. It's odd that we can't get certain books here."

[She should have the points to do that, and even if it resulted in more weird books at least it would be something new for the library.]

"I think four books should work for this, just to get a good variety going. And I'll let you know what happens with this."