Hi folks. Enjoy the next chapter :) I am sorry about the format but no matter how much I am fighting to enter some breaks in between, the system does not save it. I hope it is still clear what is happening.

This time they did not go to the Royal Mile, it was still too crowded even so late. Being a pleasant summer night the old town looked beautiful with the lights. However people were mostly not interested in the tourist attractions, they were sitting in the pubs and restaurants. A lot of young people were wandering in the streets and a variety of strange characters that lived their lives almost exclusively at night. Lara and Simon tried to avoid the places where there was still a crowd, they approached their target from behind. As much as possible without attracting attention they tried to navigate in the dark streets where their clothing melted into the environment. It occurred to Lara that black may not have been the best choice, they looked like the thieves. In a sense they were although they were not planning to steal anything. It was not the first time for Lara that she had to intrude somewhere, through the years she had developed her own moral stance about these things. The most important thing was not to see everything black or white, she was often balancing on the edge of criminality. She knew that many people condemned this approach but there was no choice. Often she could not proceed without certain pieces of information, which could not be obtained any other way. If she needed something, she did not recoil from breaking and entering. She was not proud of this, considered it as a necessary bad. This was one reason why she tried to keep most of her work away from public, it would have raised too many questions that she did not want to answer. Now again she was planning to penetrate a facility even if she did not plan to take anything or leave any evidences. For Simon it was also not the first time to do something illegal. Of course he tried to keep this within limits and set his own rules. He was excited, not because what they were about to do but about what was at stake. Everything depended on this now whether they find the sentence, whether they would be able to continue the search.

They reached the backside of the building. Lara stopped for a moment.

"I will stay here and watch out while you unlock the door."

"Okay, I do not think it will last very long. I tell you when I am ready." - he said and put the headset on his right ear. Lara did the same.

Simon went to the door and began to examine the small box on the wall where the pin code must be entered. He took out a small screwdriver from his back pocket and cautiously opened it. A set of wires exposed in front of his eyes. With his pocket knife he cut one, pulled off the plastic cover from the two free ends. He took out a small black box from his bag. At that moment he was very glad that he brought the thing with him. He felt that he would need it. The ends of the wire were attached with pinchers and the equipment came to life. Green numbers were running around on the little screen with incredible speed, not much time passed until the correct code appeared.

Meanwhile, Lara watched the small side street but she did not notice anything strange. Nobody came in her direction.

"The door is open." – she heard in the headset a few minutes later.

She turned around and joined Simon. He disconnected the device and put the lid back on. From the outside there was no sign that anything had happened when they entered the building. Inside there was total darkness, they used the flashlights. As they had already been there, it did not cause any difficulty to find the stairs leading down.

"We need to turn on at least some lighting, with these small lights we will never find anything." - Simon whispered to her.

"I am sure we can find something down there." - Lara said. At the bottom of the stairs they found the box with the fuses. Simon looked inside and managed to turn on some emergency lighting. It was not much but they did not want to attract attention. The spotlights were located along the foot of the houses and illuminated approximately five feet of the walls. Everything looked really spooky. They went down the slope. After watching the video a thousand times, they knew exactly where to go. First they wanted to check the hint that Simon found. If this was not what they were seeking for, they could start to search the whole complex. Lara did not even want to think of this. If possible everything looked even more oppressive in the low light.

They reached the building on the video. Some houses used to have up to ten storeys before they were destroyed. The building in question still elevated at a height of at least seven stories in front them. With the flashlights there was absolutely no chance of seeing anything at the top.

"It seems that the only way is to climb up there." - Lara said. Simon saw that this solution even pleased her.

"You think this is a good idea? We are not prepared for such a height, it can be dangerous." - the man looked up, frowning.

"This is not the first time I need to climb up somewhere. Just stay here and learn." - Lara smiled at him. After putting on her fingerless leather gloves she fixed a small LED light on her backpack, then looked up at the wall to some degree plan the route where she wanted to go. The ceiling could not be seen. The rest of the wall will be a surprise - she thought.

She stepped on the first window frame and jumped up. The floors were not high, without any difficulty she could climb to the next window. She quickly reached the third floor level. But from there she did not see another window above her. Looking around she was thinking where to go on. The other house behind her was about good six feet away, she saw a projection, where there was a good chance that she could jump over. Grabbing the edge she pulled herself up to the ledge. The earlier injuries no longer hampered her, she was back into her old form. She came this far without any effort. Standing with her back to the wall she looked down at Simon, who was watching her every move from below.

"Can you see anything yet?" - She heard his voice in her ear.

"Patience. The difficult part is yet to come. "- she answered back.

"Be careful!" - Simon added.

Lara used the opportunity to look around. This was the very end of the street, she was surrounded by walls on three sides. She had to reach the top of the wall opposite her, but she saw no possibility for climbing. Beside her maybe ten feet above the wall there was a window frame, above this a relatively wide beam led around the walls. She only had to find out how to get up there. Between the two buildings a bar stretched through over her head, which stabilized the whole structure. The idea was born in Lara's head. She made a forty-five degrees jump and grabbed the pole with both hands hoping that it would be strong enough to hold her weight but she was lucky. She turned around facing the wall opposite her and launched herself. She was swinging around and around as a professional gymnast. In due course she let go and caught the projection on the wall. After pulling herself up to the window she was only a small leap away from the beam she had seen before. Hanging with her two arms on the rafter she shimmied over to her original target. She was able to hang the rope fixed from her belt on the ceiling so that it retained her weight. Now she could use both hands freely. The time has come to find out whether they were right.

"Okay, I am here now." - she talked into the headset.

"What do you see? Is this the inscription?"- Simon asked impatiently.

"At least it very much looks like. The same meaningless half-sentence."- Lara began to become excited. There was not much hope that finding the writing would be so simple. A smile ran over her lips as she was hanging on the wall fifty feet high. In this profession luck played a large role. And now it was on their side.

"What does it say? Do you tell me or do I have to climb up to see it?"

"It says: Where the largest water lies. Roughly translated. It is in Gaelic. "

"Well, this means we did not get closer to the solution right away."

"Do not complain all the time. At least we found it." - she said. "I will make a recording and an imprint as well. Then we will see how to proceed."

She took out the camera and scanned over the writing with it. Then she got out a piece of paper and quickly made an imprint with the help of a crayon. Once she was ready she let the rope down and simply slid down on it.

"Good job." - Simon praised her. "I could not have done it better myself." - he joked.

"Next time I let you do it." - Lara replied sweetly. "So now let's get out of here, and let's see where we get with this."

They were heading out without any interruption, meeting no one on the way at all. Lara found this strange, she did not understand how that Asian guy found them so fast the other day even twice and now there was no sign of him. She did not like this, things were too silent. But nothing happened, they got back to the hotel room without any problem.

"This was fun." - she said throwing herself on the couch again.

'I'm glad you enjoyed yourself but now what? "- Simon asked.

"So far we know that the entire inscription reads: Where the largest water lies, on the wall of the highest tower. Quite likely that this will lead to a new message. Does not seem like a hiding place for an amulet."

"We just have to find the biggest water and the highest tower. Sounds simple."

Simon broke off a bit that they were getting to another message. He wanted to know if that infamous medal really existed. Thus he felt no urge to think about new puzzles at four o'clock in the morning. He leaned back on the couch and waited for Lara to solve the issue. The woman did not seem tired at all, this was her element.

"We should take certain assumptions, otherwise it would be very difficult. If Scotland had been the site so far, let's hope that this does not change. The largest water .. this may be the sea or a lake. Since the whole of Scotland is surrounded by water, it would be difficult to tell which is the largest. My guess is that it is about a lake."- Lara was thinking out loud. Meanwhile she paced up and down the room, she could not sit in one place, talking to herself rather than to the man. Simon could only watch her as her brain was working and wondered how she was still able to think after they have been up and running for almost twenty-four hours slowly.

"The biggest lake in Scotland is Loch Lomond. This relatively restricts the area where we need to find that particular tower. Let's see whether we can find something on the Internet." - Lara said and looked at the man, who was just starring in front of him in the nothing.

"Simon?" - she asked again.

"Sorry I was not listening." – he apologised.

"I have noticed. Did you hear what I said?"

"Sure. The internet is my job."

He took out the laptop and started looking. This was a relatively simple question. Castles in the area of the lake.

"Three Castle are mentioned in the area. Perhaps Dumbarton Castle would be the most logical choice because it had a connection to Queen Mary but it is not directly at the lake. Another option would be Balloch Castle, which lies very close to the lake. What do you think?"

"Well ... not exactly what I expected. Quite strange that this is such an ambiguous hint."

"What does that mean? Are we on the wrong way?"

"No, I do not think so. We go to Loch Lomond. Let's sleep a bit, we badly need it. In the morning we leave."

"You are the boss." – he did not say it but he was grateful for the rest although he did not understand why he was so exhausted.

"Then enjoy the couch and I shall see you in the morning."

Lara lay down on the bed but something did not let her rest. Something fumbled in her mind, something was not right. But she could not figure out what it may have been. In the morning I can see things clearer - she thought and tried to sleep.

The alarm clock on the bedside table showed eight o'clock when she opened her eyes. It was a beautiful day, the sun shone through the cracks of the curtain. Lara stretched herself but she did not feel like getting up. Despite the fact that they managed to move on she felt very tired after the recent happenings. Half an hour more or less does not matter anymore – she thought. The bed was very comfortable, almost like the one she had at home. This thought made her feel a bit guilty that Simon had to sleep on the couch but on the other side it was his own fault. He could have had his own room with his own bed if he had not insisted on this stupid idea of sharing a room. After a while she decided to get up anyway and went to the bathroom. She leaned on the sink and started to brush her teeth. Thinking about the day before the nerving feeling came back to her that she missed something. "What bothers me so much? The first part of the hint is quite unequivocal but why is the second one not?" - she talked to her own mirror image. But her reflection did not give her the answer. She put on a bathrobe and went to the door leading to the living room. Seeing that Simon was still sleeping, she did not leave the bedroom but went to the phone next to the bed.

"Can you please bring us breakfast for two? Scottish breakfast will be just fine." - she told the receptionist. "Please leave it in front of the door, I will pick it up." She did not want to wake up Simon.

She could not wait for long, she was very hungry. After fifteen minutes she slipped out into the corridor. Fortunately the hotel was very fast, the tray was standing on the floor. Quietly she entered the room and put it down on the table in front of the couch. As Simon smelled the fresh coffee he slowly turned around and opened his eyes.

"Good morning." – Lara greeted him. " I hope you are not angry that I wake you up but I ordered breakfast in exchange."

"Not exactly the worst way to wake up." – he said smiling at her. "Everything a man desires." – he added while not taking his eyes off from her.

Interestingly Lara now did not find him intrusive, Simon appeared to be so harmless as he was sitting on the couch with messy hair. She settled down in the armchair opposite him with her legs under her and started a croissant. He also sat up and started to eat his scrambled eggs.

"What do you think we find at the lake?" – he asked her.

"I do not know but I certainly do not give up easily. I can feel that we are on the right track."

"Is this what you always do? Running after hints, breaking in, climbing and all this?"

"More or less. There are so many secrets yet to be discovered. My father showed me how interesting the history was and I wanted to continue his work."

"I did not see much of your work yet but it looks very much different of what I would have imagined for you on the first day."

"Do not expect to get me known in a week. That takes more time."- Lara said with a challenging smile on her face.

Simon said nothing but held her gaze as if he silently accepted the challenge. He poured coffee for both of them handing one cup over to her. Lara leaned forward and took it from him. Her lips formed a silent thank you while the eye contact between them was not broken for a moment. They enjoyed this quiet, intimate atmosphere, which evolved.

When the tray was all empty they found no excuse to just sit there and enjoy each other's company anymore. The adventurous spirit also began to wake up in Lara. No matter how pleasant the morning was, she lived for the excitement. While Lara packed up the equipment, Simon took possession of the bathroom. Not much later he appeared in the doorway, freshly shaved, wearing jeans and light blue shirt. The woman looked up, leaving her eyes just a bit longer on him than it was necessary.

"I need to get dressed too, then we can start." – she said to him while approaching the bedroom door where Simon was standing leaning against the door frame. Lara looked at him inquiringly because he did not move out of the way. She hoped that he was not planning anything. The morning was so pleasant, she did not want to spoil it. But then Simon stepped aside and let her in.

Down the hall Lara paid the bill, the car had already been in front of the entrance waiting for them. They drove off towards the road leading out of town. Many people turned their heads after them in the street. The Aston Martin was not the kind of vehicle that could be seen every day. They turned to the M8, which took them through Glasgow towards Loch Lomond. Only a one and a half hour trip separated them from the lake. It took a bit longer to get through the city as the traffic was strong enough when they arrived to Glasgow. All way long the message was running around in Lara's mind. She could not escape the thought that something was wrong. Just a few miles was left to go when she suddenly stepped on the break and stopped the car in a parking lot. She got out and nervously paced up and down the dusty roadside. Simon did not know what happened. He also got out watching her over the top of the car for a while. Not knowing if he should interrupt her he just listened. But he could not endure it very long.

"What are you doing? Why are we stopping? "- he asked her.

But Lara did not seem to hear him at all. She went back to the trunk and took out the imprint of the message. After watching it for endless minutes suddenly she spoke up.

"Of course, once again I was stupid."

"What is wrong?" – Simon did not understand anything again but started to get used to this situation.

"All the way something disturbed me." - Lara began to explain. "It is unusual that the hint seems to show to a number of possible locations. But now I know why it is like this. I translated the message wrongly. It does not say biggest water but biggest amount of water."

"And that changes anything?" - Simon countered while he went to the back of the car.

"This changes everything. Because Loch Lomond may be the biggest lake of Scotland according to the surface but it does not have most of the water in it."

"How do you know all this?" - he wondered.

"That is my job to know it."

"So what is the new target then?"

"Loch Ness".