A small smile then crept across Lucas' face after a little while of just staring at the puzzle. He grabbed it and scrolled through the notebook.
"Grandpa would get so happy when I would solve one of these things! It was the only time he really, truly smiled! This kind of thing really meant a lot to him!"
Meanwhile, Luke and Emmy started raiding through Alphendi's old stuff, as Alphendi himself followed them closely behind, watching. Luke bent down and picked up the little tea set mentioned earlier.
"Wow! I can't believe Alphendi has all this old junk from our old adventures! We were given this tea set when we went on the case of the Elysian Box!"
"And this robot!" Emmy exclaimed as she bent down to pick up a little, electronic person. An odd toy to be sure. "I wonder to this day whether that man meant it when he said he thought I was a goddess!" Luke laughed.
"In your dreams!" He said jokingly. Emmy gave him an equally joking glare. "Just kidding! Just kidding! I wonder that too!" And they went through the rest of their old treasures, Alphendi slowly realizing things he never knew about his beloved toys, laughing at Luke and Emmy's playful bickering and reminiscing all the while.
It was quite a while of everyone looking at things before anyone had bothered to look into the closet. The one who finally did was Alphendi. He carefully pulled the door open, revealing not a single thing, except a single box on the top shelf. He slowly pulled it down, reveling an odd sight. The box was wooden, but was painted to depict an elegant, golden box covered in diamonds and having some kind of goat on the lid. Since the box was old, it was dusty, and the paint worn and in some places chipped. Alphendi walked over to the small table and set it down solemnly. Everyone stopped what they were doing the moment they noticed Alphendi standing there, staring curiously at the box. Soon everyone was gathered around the box looking at it, except Meme, who just stood beside Angela and Flora, waiting for someone to say something.
"Why don't you open it up, Son?" Randall asked. He received no reply from Alphendi, but Alphendi did after that reach and slowly open up the top. Everyone but Meme stared at it.
"It's nothing but trinkets!" Emmy said.
Alphendi pulled out the first thing he saw, the first memory Daddy kept inside the box…