hisapprentice | [Puzzle 011]

[It's early in the morning, and there's a commotion. The village knows about this commotion because things are scattered in the scuffle, including Luke's journal. It thunks onto the floor of the apartment, open and 'on' enough to record...well.

The sounds of a scuffle.

Bangs and clangs and the occasional mechanical whirr or someone shouting (classic noir American accent or subtle/overt British one, take your pick!) and the end result is a nice, spread-out flurry of chaos.

In which one of the people living in the apartment is no longer there.

After a while, there are footsteps; it's Luke trudging over to pick up his journal and gingerly talk into it.]

Um. They came and...took Czes- Benjamin. [Not without a fight!] Maiza and Professor Layton and I tried to stop them, but it- it didn't work. Sorry. [...] Maybe he won't be gone for long.

[[ooc: Those replying may get an answer from Luke, Maiza, or Layton! Depends on who's got the journal at the moment, and who's off trying to clean up the mess in a dejected manner.]]

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[Firo wants desperately to yell back, he's already frazzled from hearing about Czes being taken away, and his temper doesn't help. He grits his teeth and forces himself to keep them that way until he's calmed down enough. Luke has done nothing for him to get mad at, he just needs a moment to let that register.]

...Fine. I will.

[After a pause he decides he should ask about that wince too.]

What's wrong?

Nothing's wrong.

[Firo can't really see Luke's arms crossed, but he can probably hear it.]

Come on, you don't sound so good.

I've just got a bruise or two, that's all. ['Leave me alone.' With Layton in the room it would be so rude of him to say this.]

[...Yeah, definitely mentioning that to Maiza because that's the same thing Firo'd say if he were injured.]

You sure that's all?

Mmhmm. Yeah. [He means it! They are big bad bruises but just that.] Why, are you worried?

Huh? Of course I'm worried, you're-

["A kid," he was about to say, but that's exactly the sort of thing he didn't appreciate hearing at Luke's age.]

...Czes and Maiza's friend.