Well, this is certainly odd.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

[Emmy stumbles a little as she appears in the lobby - understandable, really, given that she was stepping out of the Laytonmobile just a moment before. Much as she'd been paying more attention to Layton than her surroundings, she rather doubts that they're parked in a building. After all, they were supposed to be outside Misthallery, and who would put a town inside? Other than, well. Turning on her heel, she discovers that the Laytonmobile isn't even there behind her, anyway, and she promptly wheels around in a full circle to try to get a good look at her surroundings.]

Professor Layton!?

...anyone?

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[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Sadly, that work will have to be put on hold until a way back is found. You have my sympathy, dearest Emmy.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

But I--

[But she doesn't trust... her partner to work properly without any input from her whatsoever. Not that she can say that out loud, though, unless she wants to completely blow her cover.]

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Is something the matter? You seem rather nervous.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

I-it's just... the work I have to do is very important, professor.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

[Pauses thoughtfully.]

What was happening around you before you arrived here?

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

[Promptly;]

You and I had just arrived in Misthallery. You'd received a letter from your old friend, and we were going to investigate it.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, the Golden Garden incident.

Yes... I can see how that would have been most difficult if you weren't around, Emmy. You contributed a lot. I'm not jesting when I say that your absence may have shattering effects on your world.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

[...particularly if Layton chooses to investigate her identity upon her disappearance, Emmy suspects.]

...I... need to get back there, then.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

In which case we should research a method; but sadly by the time one is found it may already be too late.

[Sighs.]

I will do all that I can, my dear.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

...

You--

You talk about the time as if you're from after it.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

That's because I am. Several years after it, as a matter of fact.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

Several years... tell me, Layton. Do you know anything about time travel?

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

[Oh, now that's a subject and a half!]

I know... a few things. But I'm surprised that you of all people would be asking about that, Emmy.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

Well... surely a gentleman can forgive a lady her eccentricities, no?

What is it that you know?

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Oh how you pry. So very unbecoming of you, my dear.

But if you must know, after you left I met a man who claimed to be able to produce a working time machine. The notion intrigued me.

[Yes, he is going to be as vague as that.]

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but you see, professor... it's very relevant that I understand what you know on this subject. You'll see why, I suspect, in a minute.

Was he telling the truth? About the time machine?

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

He seems to think that he is. He's worked long and hard on it, but his efforts have mostly been unfruitful in terms of satisfactory results.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

...I rather suspect you're not telling me the whole truth, professor.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

After all we've been through you'd accuse me of lying?

Emmy, I'm hurt.

[Still smirking though.]

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

I've been through very little with you, professor. And it's not lying that you're doing, anyway, merely withholding certain details.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

How I missed your intellect. Where I come from we have shared... many a time together and have a greater trust for one another.

[Oh look, he's derailing the subject.]

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

If you know my intellect so well, you'll know that I don't fall for tricks like that.

Tell me what you know about Clive Dove, professor.

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Where I come from he's an unpleasant rebel leader, but I gather in other universes he's led quite a different life.

[primarydeux.livejournal.com]

Ahh? Elaborate, would you?

[monocle-layton.livejournal.com]

Clive Dove is an individual who opposes to my government and takes a radical approach to getting his point across. A terrorist, in other words.