[Ran shows up on the video, her eyes bright and her cheeks rosy, wearing a lush warm-colored winter kimono, her hair twisted up and fastened with a lovely bow.]

Ne! Conan-kun! Hattori-kun! Have you seen how beautiful it is?! We should head to the temple and get our fortunes ( Read more... )

[Ran wasn't really all that concerned with the fact that her legs were traded in for a crimson mermaid tail. It didn't even really bother her that she was now surrounded with coral reefs and beds of seaweed.]

[No, she had more pressing matters on her mind. Not even the fact that Conan-kun hadn't been seen for the past week was enough to distract her ( Read more... )

[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 ( Read more... )

[It was hard to miss the talk over the network about the recent snowfall. Of course, waking up to that gentle silence that snow brought with it was enough indication that the landscape of the mansion had changed to a more seasonally-appropriate outlook ( Read more... )

[At first, the Author contemplated making Ran a Chansey...however, since she had already done so for Raz, she had to come up with another 'appropriate' choice for Ran...

Ran...Ran...let's see...]


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[The Blackberry displays a bit of interference when Ran switches it on for the first time. The girl appears, taking a tentative nibble out of her soft pretzel, salted and glistening with butter. She looks like she's about to comment to whoever is out there watching, but her eyes blink in surprise and she looks at the pretzel]

Wow, this is really ( Read more... )

Ah -- sorry for disturbing everyone. I'm looking for a doctor. Black Jack-san in particular, but anyone who'd be able to take a look at Conan-kun, your help would be appreciated.

Also, I'm sorry to Conan-kun's friends, but it's better that you don't come visiting for a little bit, okay? Don't worry, I'll make sure that he's okay!

Waking up to Shiitake was one thing. Finding button mushrooms in her room another. It wasn't until she noticed that there were tiny enokitake sprouting in the carpet she'd just walked across barefoot that Ran began to get suspicious. It took talking to Eddie for her to put the pieces together, however -- and now, well. Hair pulled back under a ( Read more... )

[The muffled sound of the falling snow gives the Soho streets a serene, dream-like quality, only heightened by the lights and the oddly non-descript pedestrians. Ran walks down the street wondering at it all.

She knows exactly where she is. That trip to New York with Shinichi, well -- it was memorable even if for the wrong reasons. Funny that she ( Read more... )