[Puzzle 006]

[hisapprentice]

[Luke wakes up all alone in a strange apartment and this is not acceptable. There is a whole list of reasons why but it's been summed up pretty well, right there - all alone, strange apartment. No familiar setting, no city, no brother.

This is why he's careening around town in his pajamas* not ten minutes later, at least remembering to put on his slippers and hat. He stops in the shadows by the bakery to open the journal and try something.]

[The failest filter - at most 20%]

Benjamin! Benjamin, where are you?

[Whether or not that produces a result, he'll go back to his running and searching.

And will slam smack into more than one person as he goes. Mostly from behind. He's a slight kind of thing so it won't hurt the other person much!]

[[ooc: Luke is now from the wonderfully insane world of Baccano! He is Czeslaw's brother and will goggle at anyone who calls him "Luke" (except Yotsuba) because the name he believes he's been using is Thomas.

*They are blue-and-white striped button-down flannels. A-dor-able.]]

Comments

[failguardian]

[...Who?]

[That blank, surprised look should be enough to tell Luke whether she knows or not.

[hisapprentice]

[Wow, Anise. At least you're not the only one with memory problems today.

Also, Luke has lost just a little bit of his adorable accent.]

Never mind, I'm not going to take all that time trying to make you remember. He's about this tall, and has brown hair, and wears a brown hat too.

[failguardian]

Booooo, don't be rude! [Okay, might as well play along. She knows by now it's impossible to snap someone out of whatever the Malnosso had done to them.] So, is he missing?

[hisapprentice]

I'm not being rude!

[sigh sigh.] He's around here somewhere, I just don't know where.

[failguardian]

I can help you look for him, if you want! [She does want to spend more time with Luke, but she's not sure how much use she'll be, since she really has no clue who Benjamin is.]

[hisapprentice]

I'm really waiting to see if he answers what I said in the journal.

[Guess what Anise? Immortal 1930s Luke never lost his crush on you, and when he recognizes how close you're both standing he's going to blush.

Which is right now.]

U-Uh...so, how...are you this morning?

[failguardian]

[That makes Luke the second boy to blush over her today!]

It's been kinda weird. I think there's an experiment going on! People's memories are all messed up...

[hisapprentice]

Yeah, I could tell. [He rubs his face like that's going to take the blush off.] There was a guy who kept asking me about a "Layton," I'm sure I don't know anyone like that.

[failguardian]

[Whoa...he forgot Layton? But from what he told her, the professor was such an important person to him.]

Yeah...heheh! It's really weird. But things will probably go back to normal soon.