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[spoilsfun]

Who: Conan Edogawa and You
What: A tiny detective arrives.
When: After the Valentines event
Where: Main Reception Room
Warnings: Probably not?

When Conan suddenly finds himself blinking in the middle of something that looked for all the world like the reception room for a grand abandoned library, he could only assume that he had been kidnapped.

Again.

Granted, the culprit this time seemed to have much more refined tastes that the usual brand of criminals.

He frowns as he hears the whisper. Save us? What kind of cry for help was that? If someone had gone to all the trouble of bringing a detective here, the least they could do was present the details. Who, when, where. Even a detective couldn't do anything without clues.

He holds a moment in hopes of hearing something else, but when nothing else happens he sets off across the cracked tiles, pausing every now and then to investigate the wood paneling and the wrought iron railings and staircases. Perhaps later he would explore the wings in more detail.

But he would be starting with the reception desk. People often forgot how much useful information could be left behind on abandoned paper pads and desk drawers. .

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[spoilsfun]

"I remember the call for help," he says. "It wasn't very specific."

But he was more interested in the other part. "How do we leave, then?"

[twominutes_older]

"No, it wasn't, but they didn't really have time to explain the details before bringing us here." It wasn't the strangest thing to happen to Sam so she accepted it readily enough.

"Ask one of the Librarians and you'll be returned home to the moment you left." She shouldn't try to influence him even if she wished that the Librarians had also brought Conan's guardians or parents with him. "Or you can stay and return when you think that you're no longer needed here."

[spoilsfun]

"They just send you back? Is there some kind of hidden cost to it?"

Because he knew that it couldn't possibly be that simple.

[twominutes_older]

"None. We're here because they need us." She'd been suspicious of it at first, but then the Non-Fiction Librarian had offered to let her and her brother go home when she'd asked. "They said it's inhumane to keep people here against their will. One of them was adamant about making sure that we knew that we're not prisoners."

[spoilsfun]

"If they just send us back when we ask, why did they bother bringing us here in the first place? Is there some reason for staying here?"

[twominutes_older]

"Because they need help from people with different skills." That seemed to be the best explanation that she'd found that didn't involve the sorts of physics and reality shifting that made her head hurt. "This place protects other worlds. If it's harmed, then our worlds will be harmed with it. The ones that choose to stay do so to protect their homes."

[spoilsfun]

"Harmed? Harmed how?"