hisapprentice | [Puzzle 004]

[Puzzle 004]

[A dejected ~~little boy~~ young gentleman in blue sits in the library today at a table, journal open off to the side. In front of him is a book with a red cover, full of intermediate-level puzzles and riddles. There's a piece of paper beside it, on which he solves most of them - if they require paper.

There are a few interesting ones copied down into the journal, for reference later.

YYHLYEYT?
6L=12 6S=18 6LS=?
Meanwhile...

After a while, Luke sighs in a most ungentlemanly way.]

I wish I knew why this book feels so important. [the sound of ruffling pages] Maybe if Professor Layton were here he-

[Luke cuts himself off almost sharply, closing the puzzle book and doodling a few little pictures of fish and mice instead. One of the little mice wears a tall top hat.]

I wish I could go home.

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Is it a book you've seen before?

[As it turns out, he isn't alone in the library. There's another kid around and she must've heard him, because she's stopped searching through books to peek around the corner of some shelves at him.]

Edited 2012-02-07 03:01 (UTC)

[You startled him! Luke jumps, dropping his pencil and scrambling not to knock his book off the table too.]

Ah! You...you scar- surprised me.

...I don't think I've seen it before, but...I also think I do.

[Oops. Yun at least manages not to giggle, putting a hand to her mouth to stop it, but that was kind of funny.]

Sorry. I didn't mean to.

[Well, now that she's made it known she's there, she walks over to take a look at the book, though she won't reach for it.]

Oh? What's it about?

[He flops it open again, turning a few of the first pages.]

It's a puzzle book.

A puzzle book. [She looks at the puzzles on the pages as he flips through the pages, though all those letters and numbers... Huh.] Why would a puzzle book be important?