[Dictated]

[deductiongeek]

 Wow, I guess I had some really strange dreams while everyone was asleep.  It's interesting what kinds of things the mind comes up with, isn't it?

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Dictated

[silvertree]

[ Coldly. ]

I see nothing interesting in watching others suffer within their nightmares.

Dictated

[deductiongeek]

[And this would be another time Conan's need to keep his secrets got him into trouble. Because of what had been revealed in his dreams he absolutely had to convince everyone who had entered his dreams that there had been no truth in them. And he could not admit to having seen any other dreams, because ha had arrived in them as his teenage self.

All of which meant that he had to come off in this conversation as more cold and callous than he actually was.]

None of them were real, right? Isn't it better that it was something like this than any of that happening in reality?

Dictated

[silvertree]

[ Destined to be a foul mood for the remainder of the day, Celeborn chooses his words even more carefully than usual to conceal his displeasure. ]

Memories are real enough, are they not? Even the sweetest memory could be twisted and warped by the malevolence of a nightmare. Therefore, imagine how gruesome a shameful past could be for those who wished to bury such memories from all to see.

Re: Dictated

[deductiongeek]

Memories are in the past. It isn't logical to let something like that control us now.

And I didn't see anyone else's dreams, so I can't say anything about that.

Re: Dictated

[silvertree]

[ That first comment honestly struck an ill-cord with Celeborn, but he holds his tongue for now. ]

Who are "you" to deem what is logical and what is not?

Re: Dictated

[deductiongeek]

Well, that's my opinion of such things. There's no point to going over things like that.

And I'm a detective.

Re: Dictated

[silvertree]

Your opinions mean nothing those who suffer, nor does your boasting.

Dictated

[deductiongeek]

Why do you keep talking about things like boasting? You asked for my opinion.

Re: Dictated

[silvertree]

That I did, yet you're quick to state your profession with needless pride.

Dictated

[deductiongeek]

You asked who I was. I follow logic because I'm a detective.

Re: Dictated

[silvertree]

Simply because of your profession alone, you deem yourself in the right to be so callous in judgment?

Re: Dictated

[deductiongeek]

[Conan lets out a put upon sigh and begins to quote Holmes.]

Emotions were admirable things for the observer — excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his.

That was written about the greatest of all detectives in my world. To eliminate emotions is what detectives should aim for, because the distraction of emotions and memories can alter the conclusion of a deduction.

I am not expecting that anyone else here will follow this. There are very few detectives here, after all.

D i c t a t e d ; ;

[wheatdos]

It wouldn't help since it's...um, scientifically proven that vivid dreams have a direct correlation with brain damage! S'true you know.

[workaphilic]

Very interesting.

[His tone is hard-edged.

He's not interested in playing games anymore.]

[deductiongeek]

The mind makes odd connections in dreams, isn't that right?

[His tone is deliberately, carefully innocent. Conan was fully aware that getting out of this would not be easy. He still had to try.]

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[deductiongeek]

How do you know? Did you read that somewhere?

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[wheatdos]

Of... of course I did, mate!
I am a scientist afterall.

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[deductiongeek]

Okay. Where did you read it? [The question is deliberately innocent.]

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[wheatdos]

...In...

[A pause. There's a bit of a cough to buy time.]

S...science books. Research. Things like that.
Always doing that.

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[deductiongeek]

What kind of science books?

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[wheatdos]

The... the sciency ones, mate. The sciency science books...

...

S-say how, old are you?

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[deductiongeek]

I'm seven!

But science books isn't very specific.

Re: D i c t a t e d ; ;

[wheatdos]

Seven.
Well... that-that's not a big number at all...

[He could totally prove how smart he is to a 7 year old, couldn't he?]

Well.. I've loads of them mate. Stacks. Read hundreds of them on a daily basis. Books about... brains. I guess. And damaging. Brain damage. Neu...nero..

[What's that word again? He's just going to pretend he's making it simple enough for a 7 year old.]

...Brain science books.

[jimfromit]

[Oh how could he not respond to this.]

Well you seem bright and cheery today.

That snooze must have done you some good.

[deductiongeek]

[Oh great, it was that guy. Conan had not been looking forward to this.]

I don't know if you could say that anyone got much rest from the last few days.