hisapprentice | [Puzzle 015]

[Well, he's put it off for as long as he conceivably can. Luke pulls open his journal and speaks, not bothering with the business of filtering anything.]

I'm going to- [This is much harder than he thought, even after all the practice.] To...to move house, in with Firo and Seto. S-so...um, this house will be-

[Come on, Luke, you're nearing fifteen and this is not the time and a true gentleman never lets his most painful emotions show in public this way.]

House five is going to be empty. After today.

[With Layton's, Maiza's, and Czeslaw's stuff gone, he doesn't even have a lot to pack. It keeps him out of school for the day, though. Maybe saying all that could serve as enough of an apology to Professor Sage and Toph and everybody.

After a while, in the true and final emptiness of the house, he sits for a while in the kitchen, opening the journal again to write about something that has, historically, made him feel better; this time, there's a lot of melancholy in with the entertainment.]

Does anybody know a good puzzle?

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I barely got your last puzzle. I don't think I can come up with a good one for you.

Maybe there's a puzzle book in this place. There has to be, right?

There are lots in the library, but hearing them from other worlds is nice sometimes.

Well, I know a few puzzles from home, but they're more like games. One is where you have a bunch of dots on a piece of paper and you connect them, each person drawing on line at a time, trying to make a square. The one with the most squares wins.

I've played that game before! It's not really a puzzle, but you think in sort of the same way.

My lady gave me a puzzle box for my birthday if you'd like to have a look at it.

A puzzle...box? What do you mean?

[He has a general idea and it is the wrong idea.]

A wooden box that one must figure out how to open.

Well, I guess I could give it a try.

[It's the most excited he's sounded since the amusement park.]

It's a very difficult one, I'll warn you. Where shall I bring it?

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Ah, I know a cute puzzle! It's about a panda. Do you want to hear it...?

I might as well.

Why do aunts, uncles, and cousins depend on you?

[Yeah, you're just going to get schoolyard riddles from her.]

[Having none to speak of, it takes him a minute to realize she's asking a puzzle.]

Because you'd spell them wrong if they didn't, of course.

Yup! You are good, for a little kid, anyway.

My name is Iris!

Little kid? [Look who's talking! She looks younger than he is.] I'm almost fifteen!

[Iris calls everyone a little kid, even older kids.]

Sure you are, babyface~! [Oh, now, this is cute. She has to tease!]

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A puzzle, huh? I think I've got one. [She couldn't remember where she had heard it though.]

There are a bunch of cards with names on them: Wotan, Saturn, the New Moon and the Old Moon, Thor, Frigg, Tyr, and the sun. What order do they go in?

How does the other part go again...? Oh yeah. The cycle that turns from the moon to the sun won't change the past, the future, or the present.

Er...I don't even know what some of those words mean.

You mean the names? That's the best part, you don't need to know what they mean to solve it!

[Which was good, because she didn't know what most of them meant either.]

What I mean is...it sounds like some of those are supposed to represent the past, the present, and the future, but I don't know enough about them to know which ones.

Oh. Still, you're already thinking too hard! Although...I don't know why they put in that past, present and future part in there. I should have just left it out.

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Oh, I found a book of those in the library a while ago because I wanted to practice solving them. You probably know all of these already, but...

[There's a moment of silence on his end while he hunts around for the book.]

A petshop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears." A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it and it didn't say a word. He returned the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied about the parrot. How can this be?

[Someone wanted to practice! It warms Luke's tiny puzzling heart.]

Let's see...if he didn't lie about the parrot, and the parrot repeats everything it hears, and it didn't repeat anything...then I suppose it didn't hear anything either, did it?

That's right. Wow, you really are good at these, Luke.

I've had lots of practice.

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