[Puzzle 013]

[hisapprentice]

[Part 1

Homework on the weekends is just plain unfair! Luke chooses not to bring this up with his favorite teacher, however, opting instead to carry his notebook and papers and books to somewhere else to study. He considers the library, standing before its door for a while, but in the end he turns around and goes through the Welcome Center to the Tea Shop instead. The sense of bustle helps him get all distracted concentrate.

Plus, there's tea. He chooses an empty table and spreads out everything he'll need. As usual, this turns pretty quickly into him sitting there with a full cup of tea while he devises puzzles on paper or of paper. At the height of his distraction he builds a tower of folded paper cubes...and a gust of wind through the window scatters them all across the floor.

Then he's got to pick them up again.

Part 2

After all - or most - of his schoolwork is finished, Luke shoulders his bag and heads off to the stables. Just because Mr. Greg went home is no reason to slack in his responsibilities! He loves the horses and they tend to like him too. Besides, he brought carrots.

He greets any fellow stablehands and goes about his horsey business, picking up a rake to start on clearing one of the stalls. Of course, you've got to get the horse out of it first.

What happens next isn't quite clear to him once it's over; all he knows is that something spooked the horse and he managed to get out of the way before it kicked, and now he's on the ground with the rake's handle trapped beneath him. Pushing himself up again, he sees that the sound he heard must have been said handle half-snapping as he landed on it. Then he notices something else.

A bit shaky, he goes back to his bag and fumbles his journal out of it.]

I think there's...a bit of a problem... I'm at the- the stables and I fell and, uh...I might be hurt.

[Though he sounds unsure, it's the kind of unsure that really makes one sure.]

[[ooc: Go ahead. Break time. You know you want to. It'll be great. (Meaning, of course more than one person can find him at the tea shop/pick up papers with him/discover his fate in the stables. Have fun!)]]

Comments

[hisapprentice]

Not your students, Professor. Most of them would come to two more classes if they could. [Despite still being in a bit of pain, Luke flashes a devilish grin.] Have you forgotten Rosetta already?

[reminded]

... Of course not. [If anything, the faintly haunted look in his eyes says he couldn't forget her if he wanted to.] It's true that Rosetta is one of my more... attentive students. But I would say she is unique in many regards.

[hisapprentice]

[As they are at the clinic now, Luke drops the conversation with a defined gulp.]

It's...not going to be that bad, right?

[reminded]

Certainly not as bad as you're imagining. [He hopes. He opens the door and pointedly waits for Luke to step in.]

[hisapprentice]

[Oh don't do that thing where you are suddenly the responsible and mature adult, Professor, it doesn't make him feel any better and- it sure does convince him to get in the building in a hurry.]

[reminded]

[Would you rather he say it'll hurt lots and lots? Not that he's ever been conscious for a bone setting. Or has he??

Once they're in, Layton hunts out the attending clinician and explains the situation. After that, there isn't much else to do but put Luke's arm into proper order, so to speak.]

[hisapprentice]

[The short version - and Luke is so nervous by then that the short version is plenty for him, thanks - is that Luceti-brand magic is a curious and wonderful thing and no, it is not as bad as he thought it was going to be. In fact he looks so relieved when everything is finished that he just sits there for several moments, wearing a blank expression.

Can they bottle this stuff and take it back to London?]

[reminded]

[Layton takes the lack of wincing or moaning as a sign that it went well. He looks down at Luke curiously.]

All better?

[hisapprentice]

I...I think so. Mostly. [Since some of it was Layton's doing, after all, Luke smiles.] Thanks, Professor.

[reminded]

You're welcome. [Even if it doesn't feel like he's done anything much.]

Is there much left to be done at the stables?

[hisapprentice]

[One small headshake.]

I was finished. [Except for the matter of the rake on the ground.]

[reminded]

Then if you have no further obligations, shall we head back to the flat?

[hisapprentice]

Mmhmm. [They told him to take it easy anyway. And he has designs on a nap, maybe. Or some ice cream. He left his journal and bag in the stable and forgot all about them, too.]

[reminded]

[Layton nods and starts them back the way they came. They can pick those things up on the way back. Or whenever. It's a good thing Luceti isn't a place for thieves.]