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[kissingchamp]

[ A scruffy woman appears on the screen. Her hair is a wild mess and her eyes are darkly blotted with eyeshadow. She rather looks like a girl that got trashed and passed out with her make-up on. Hold onto your pants - it doesn't get much better. ]

Hello! Hello? Pleasure to meet you, I'm Sexy.

No, no, that's not right. That's his name, not for you.

TARDIS! I'm Time-And-Relative-Dimension-In-Space.

No. Wait. Yes, but no. What was she called?

[ The woman ducks her head, thoughtfully, one translucent nail furiously tapping at her lower lip. Nevermind liquor, she's chattering away way too quickly. ]

Ah! Idris! You may call me Idris.

Where's my thief? Thief! Yoohoo! I know you're only ten. I know we've not met yet, but you know me, surely you do. Will. Have. Tenses! Thief? Has anyone seen my thief?

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[leadthebeats]

[ ... Yuri is honestly not sure how to reply to this at first. ]

You're looking for a thief? What exactly does this thief look like?

[onemoredeath]

You are looking for someone who is only ten in age?

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[kissingchamp]

Funny hair and a duster. Lots of leg.

[kissingchamp]

Possibly! I think Eight is the youngest to hope for in such a state.

[ Idris, that can't be taken the wrong way at all. ]

[onemoredeath]

Are you talking as in human years or a different race?

[kissingchamp]

[ There's a pause where her eyes narrow just so. Should she say? ]

A bit of both.

Ten. Yes. It's definitely Ten.

[onemoredeath]

[ well, that sort of narrows it down. How many people does he know that are a little bit human and a little bit something else. ]

Is there a name to go with Ten?

[kissingchamp]

[ There was also 'child' in there. ]

He's The Doctor.

[onemoredeath]

[ What is a child to some is an adult to others. Takegami usually does not call a person younger than him a child unless they act like one. But that does give him something to go on. ]

Ah, yes, that is familiar. He was on the network earlier talking about someone leaving green fire footprints across the floor. I forget what room he was in.

[kissingchamp]

[ Oh, the acting like one is absolutely what she meant. The Doctor is her Old Boy. ]

I know he's here, I just don't know where he's gone.

I'll know soon.

So let's know you! What's your name?

[onemoredeath]

[ Ah, and he doesn't know much about the Doctor to make a guess yet. What he has seen reminds him of a lazy cat more than a child. ]

To the rooms he was given, I suspect. I would try the directory for the number... 901 is the number.

How rude of me. I am Teijirou Takegami in the Western order.

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[shelkethetransparent]

...Time and Relative Dimension in space?

[draconic_historian]

Are you alright? You seem confused.

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[arlathansgrace]

I have a friend who calls herself Sexy sometimes, too. I think you'd like her.

[Merrill gives a small wave.]

Andaran atish’an, Idris. My name is Merrill. [A pause.] Why are you looking for a thief? Did he take something from you?

[video, encrypted.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[Sherlock's really not certain what to do with you, Idris, you gorgeous darling. Actually, he's more convinced this woman has fallen down and hit her head a few too many times, but with the last week or so being what it is, he can't rule out anything else. He leans forward to study her through the screen, head tilted vaguely to one side, and he says absolutely nothing.]

[video, encrypted.]

[kissingchamp]

[ When you look into the abyss, Sherlock, the abyss looks into you also...

Which is to say Idris tilts her head in an almost perfect mirror, though her eyebrows raise curiously. ]

What shall I win?

[video, encrypted.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[Sherlock doesn't look away, but inwardly he's a little unsettled. Most people don't look back at him, and not with that kind of a gaze.]

[His voice is soft when he speaks;]

"Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven, I know not how I lost him."

[video, encrypted.]

[kissingchamp]

[ And why not? You have very beautiful eyes, for a human!

The snippet of prose earns a slight smile of delight. ]

"I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."

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[kissingchamp]

Essentially.

[kissingchamp]

On the contrary, I'm quite used to this... and not at all used to this. But never mind! I'll be better fashionably late.

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[shelkethetransparent]

...What does that mean, exactly?

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[kissingchamp]

Close enough.

[video, encrypted.]

[holmesisnowhere]

[His eyes are pale like he is, and Sherlock is a study in contrasts. Black on white. The smile is returned, though faintly. Sherlock leans forward to gaze down at the video screen to reply;]

"Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend
more than cool reason ever comprehends."

[A pause.]

But I prefer cool reason.

[draconic_historian]

If you say so...

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[shelkethetransparent]

...It means 'close enough?'

[Shelke doesn't seem convinced by that answer.]