Dear Prof,
How about that address? I know it sounds dumb because your father is Professor Layton, but I think it's kinda funny. I was going to call you Inspector, but that just seems way too formal. So...you're going to stick with either Prof or Mr. Layton. I really hope you take the former.
Inspector Dartwright is not the Yard's worst hiring decision! He's a great man, just a bit caged off and married to his work. He prides himself in working, though I will admit when I asked about you, his eyes turned really dark and told me not to speak your name ever again. It only made him worse and made him all snappy, but I know he has a soft spot for me. I just gotta work at it!
As for how the Yard's going? Well, I've made a couple of friends. Justin, Hilda, Florence, Sniffer, and Dustin all work in my area so I could only really ask them. I was kinda scared to ask the Commissioner, but if you want me to ask, I'll ask next time?
I asked each of them about you, oh Prof, you shoulda seen the look on their faces! I didn't tell 'em about the pen pal arrangement, so instead I told them that I was going through some old files and found yours. They all had different things to say. Justin gave me the side-eye and told me that you were long gone from here. Hilda looked upset and told me to get back to work, I think I struck a chord with her. Sniffer and Dustin knew of you, with the latter saying that he still can't thank you enough for helping his brother with something but thought you were a little scary until you started doing cocaine. Sniffer thinks you were the strange guy at the back and knows nothing much except for what Justin told him. Florence was the only person that actually told me about you.
Flo said that you were a strange one. Really mean to all the criminals and pretty snappy. You were, at best, tolerable when it came to your co-workers and it wasn't until you started doing cocaine that you were nice, but in short bursts. She was the first, she said, the first one to witness your 'other personality' as she calls it. Everyone calls it that, actually. Just in different ways. She said she helped ya hide your drug habit but you wouldn't let her take a part of the fall, so there's some niceness in ya even though you think cocaine is your fix of for that stuff.
I think you're still pretty swell if this is you sober, Prof. Yeah, you're kinda rough around the edges but you're still nice. Maybe I'm just strange? I've been called that before. Heh.
Lucy Baker
P.S. Don't call me Ms. Baker. I also don't really like the formality. Just Lucy? Maybe?
