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[only_1_truth]

"I think this is it," Leormon said, leading the way down a hall

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[damaged_dove]

The blackout effectively reduced Kaito to a panicked ball curled against the back of the room, where the room's computer was.

Absinthe said he was going to remove Kaito's friends, make him alone again, and Kaito called his bluff. The thief challenged his tormentor, more or less declaring war upon the agent in the Mansion... and then the black out happened.

He wouldn't put it beyond Absinthe to be the one responsible for it. In fact, he truly believed it, that it was the other's intention to shut down the network and isolate him until he could be found.

So when he heard the door open in the pitch black darkness, he had to physically throw a hand over his mouth to push the whimper down.

But then there was light in the form of a butterfly, and Kaito could only stare. Two Conans, one familiar and slightly older, the other younger, but undoubtedly the same person. "C-Conan?" Even on that one word, Kaito's voice cracked.

[17_going_on_8]

The older frowned. "...it's not him," he said. "Unless he can set off an EMP. Leormon and I felt it, so it isn't a simple power cut," he said, walking towards Kaito, Leormon jogging forward to look over Kaito, more confident in his steps being a cat and having quite excellent night vision.

"The computers and phones went out too. But the other me could still send this," the younger said, gesturing to the butterfly, looking around for a chair or something to block off the door, not noticing at first as a few more butterflies appeared, some more golden and even a few blue.

[damaged_dove]

Kaito reacted first to Leormon, shrinking back slightly before he reached his good arm out to the cat like creature. The arm stopped half way though, and dropped again to hold his broken arm held in a badly made sling. In the lightening room, it was easy to tell that the sling was probably something Kaito tied himself, as was the toga-like cloth that was his only source of clothing aside from the bandages.

"So... it's not him?" Kaito's eyes shifted between the two Conan's as if willing one of them to reassure his fear, then finally dropped back to Leormon. ".... it's so like something he'd do."

[only_1_truth]

"Impossible for him to do," Conan said, looking over his arm.

Leormon moved over, nuzzling Kaito's hand. "We're Digital too."

"The chance he found something that would make us react like that and NOT put us under is near impossible. It's far more likely something the Mansion is doing. It'd mess with enough people to be without things," Conan said, moving towards a bed in the room and pulling off the sheet. "Not to mention it knocked out my D-comm and D-reader. We're probably only up because the Mansion wanted us to be."

The younger looked at Conan. "...okay, I have no idea what you're talking about, but you also have to consider he's knew here. To knock out the power in a place you know better than him would be stupid," he said and looked around at the butterflies. "...gold. At least we have an escape route then."

[never_returned]

When the power had gone out, Conan had simply found some candles, lit them, and continued reading. It wasn't like he was inexperienced with the dark and feeling around for items are second nature to someone who had to go through several more years never being able to LOOK into shelves that were too high. So there were at least some candles scattered around the room

[damaged_dove]

The walk to the other Kaito's living quarters was enough to calm Kaito down. It didn't mean he stopped looking over his shoulder every several steps or wasn't jumpy to boot when he walked down that long hall wearing nothing but a bed sheet, but he did manage to recollect enough of himself to pull back a reasonable facsimile of his poker face.

So when the knock was answered by another young looking Conan, Kaito had prepared himself such that he wasn't holding to older Conan's hand and even managed a slight smile.

Although as soon as the call for the other Kaito came out, it made Kaito realize, this was going to get confusing fast.

"Don't you guys have--" his whispered words to digi-Conan was interrupted by a very inopportune growl of his stomach. "Oops."

[stainedmoonlit]

It just so happened that he'd been meditating while the power was out. There wasn't much else to do while it was out, except practice his magic maybe, but he quite a bit to think about still, and meditating was always a good way to organize his thoughts. He did however hear the knock on the door and came out of his state when Conan answered it, so he was already standing up when the older Conan called back to him.

"That many guests at a time like this?" He wondered as he came over to the door. He looked the group over in a deceptively casual way, stuffing his hands in his pockets. His other self definitely didn't look to be in good shape and what was with the butterfly? He paused to regard it with suspicion before turning his attention on his double again.

He tilted his head slightly and smiled a bit at the other Kaito. "Well, I guess you guys might as well come in. We've got snacks, if you want.

[only_1_truth]

"There's a problem. Not sure why they came here," the oldest Conan said. "I'll get the snacks," Conan said, heading for the kitchen. "And go ahead and make up those nicknames. We got a few too many this time