Another chapter. Wonder what surprises are in store for OC me! As usual please rate and review. I still have my poll up, and have recently made a new forum called Professor Layton: What do you want to talk about? So please have a look at that as well as my other forum! Don't forget this is all in my point of view. I forgot to put it in the last chapter but all of the credit for the song belongs to Lilyb12.
The next day, in the hotel room
"Professor, just what was that white powder Hannah was looking at?" Luke had a puzzled, but slightly fascinated look on his face. "I don't know, but I have a feeling it is linked to this mystery in some way." Layton replied, as they were exiting the room." Is that your famous intuition speaking professor?" A rather (as per usual) excited Dill waved frantically at them as they walked down the steps and through the creaking front door "Well yes , I guess you could say that. Hannah said to meet us at the end of the street where our hotel is. Oh, there she is now!"
I waved at the professor and Luke, and Luke waved back, beaming, he seamed to be in a very good mood, just as well really. "Morning! What are we planning on doing today?" I said, with my voice slightly raised as they were still a few metres away from me. "We should ask the villagers what they think of the mystery, we might get a lead." The professor replied.
We had to walk around a few streets before we bumped into anyone, as it was still early, then we bumped into Sally, who said, when we asked her if she had any information "No, I don't want to get too involved, it really creeps me out! But if you go to the Sharden residence, William Sharden's son still lives there. I think his name is Harry." Sally was laden down with shopping bags, she scuttled up the lane. "Seeming as there are not many people about, I think we should head there, do you?" Luke's face dropped a bit at the professors reaction to Sally's information, but agreed anyway. "The Sharden residence is to the far north of the village, and it is huge, but not quite as big as miss Mobbinsworth's house." I said, after all, it would take them forever to find it if I didn't tell them where it was.
By this time the village was starting to wake up, probably something to do with the fact that we were in Northlake, the more populated side of the village, though I don't know where they got the lake part from as there isn't a lake anywhere near! "It's just a little further up, just there." I pointed to a looming building, that looked in need of good repair."Th-That's the house, looks really, creepy…" Luke looked quite frightened by this point, but I could tell he was trying to hide it, so said nothing.
We had to walk through Pleasantree woods, as the name suggests it is a nice place to be, and all the wildlife seemed to calm luke down a bit."Oh look, it seems we have arrived." Me and Luke turned and saw the great Victorian house. The professor knocked on the door and after a moment or two, a fairly tall young man with blonde hair answered, it looked as though he had just woken up and I could swear he was slightly shaking." Good morning sir, are you Harry Sharden, by any chance?" we all waited for an answer to the professors question, but the young man just opened the door more and beckoned us in.
"Yes, I am indeed Harry Sharden, but I must ask who you are, everyone is frightened of me, think I'm like my dad, but I am not." I looked around, there was a fine layer of dust on everything, and the carpet was a funny shade of bluey-gray. "I am Hershel Layton, this is luke Triton and the young lady is Hannah Clayton. We came here to ask you some questions about the mysterious song that is haunting the village." Harry pointed to a door, which led into the living room "go and seat yourselves in there, it could be a long talk."
After about ten minutes or so, me and Luke lost interest, Harry wasn't talking to us "You two look a bit bored, go up the stairs and head in the first door on your left, it's a brilliant room, you'll love it!" Harry must have realised our boredom so we did as he said.
It was a very long dark corridor, and all the doors were on the right. All of a sudden a loud bang sounded, causing me and Luke to jump. Its fair to say we were both now terrified. I put my arm around Luke's back, as a means of comfort to us both, luke seemed rather shocked at this, but did not make any attempt to get me off, I actually think he may have nestled closer to me, and before we knew it, we had reached the first room on the left…
What do you think? What do you think Luke thinks of me? What do you think will be in that room? Well, you'll have to wait until next time! If in your reviews you could put a list of names for villagers, that would be very good, I'm rubbish at thinking up names! And the meaning of the name Northlake will become apparent closer to the end. And remember solving puzzles helps to bring world peace! Hannah
