[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

[Ran switches on the video feed. She is wearing a turtleneck with a colorful red scarf and shining red rose brooch. Holding a steaming cup of milk tea, her nose and cheeks have gotten rosy, nipped by the cold.]

Say, is there a postal service where we're at? I've got Christmas gifts I need to mail out within the next week or so if I expect them to reach their recipients.

[She shrugs her shoulders and her smile widens.]

And I've got a question for you - if you were a guy who liked mysteries a little too much, played soccer and was traveling all the time - what kind of Christmas gifts would you like?

[Waves a hand before reaching over to shut off the feed.]

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

[Ran headdesks.]

It's me! Ran Mouri! Can't you recognize me?!

Re: [Video]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Ran is seven. [You get the deadpan voice.] How do you know her?

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

I was seven ten years ago. [Almost eleven. Equally deadpan voice.]

Re: [Video]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

Because I'm supposed to believe that you're Ran from the future.

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

More like you're Shinichi from the past.

Re: [Video]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

... What date is it today?

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

We're near the end of 2011, Shinichi.

[Now Ran's expression was getting worried. If this was really the Shinichi of the past, what did this mean for the Shinichi she had grown up with?]

Re: [Video]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

I thought that would be what you'd say. [If she was going to keep up the pretense of being from the future, well, Shinichi wouldn't discourage her. It was a harmless prank.]

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

[She knew that skeptical look.]

Don't believe me? Quiz me!

[Stupid Shinichi refusing to believe anything.]

Re: [Video]

[decadetooearly.livejournal.com]

[Sigh. Really, a wise kidnapper would try to find out as much as they could about their target and those around that person, but it wouldn't hurt to prove "Ran" wrong.]

What was the final clue in the riddle my father gave to us? In your case, that would be when we were seven.

[Video]

[lovestartsat0.livejournal.com]

[Seven years ago? Does he mean the ghost hunt...?]

The last clue...the one posted on the pole? Wasn't it an S pointing to a W?