Layton rubbed his chin in thought. "I don't think we have any choice but to go there." He said. "We have to save Aurora."

"But how do we go about travelling to the Nest? We don't even have a way of getting out of Mossinia!" Luke said. The boy would try anything to help get his friend back, but in this almost barren town there were very few options.

"I remember reading up on the place before, apparently the security there is very high - the only way in is from the air." Emmy explained. "If we could get back to London we could use my plane. It will be a bit of a squeeze but it is the only thing that we have that we could get in with."

"I guess it's just a matter of getting to London then." Luke responded.

Layton nodded in agreement. He was pretty sure that her plane was only meant to hold two people, but if that was the only way of getting Aurora back then they had no choice. The professor folded his arms. "You two make sure all of your things are in your bags. We are going to see if Umid can reccomend a way for us to get back."

After making sure that everything was tidied away so that they could just pick everything up and leave if needed, Layton, Luke and Emmy headed towards Umid's house. The boy was very bright and it seemed that he would be the best to ask for help.

Walking through the centre of the town, they saw the boy coming out of a shop. He came running over, his expression puzzled. "I didn't think you'd still be here. I was sure I'd seen your airship fly off." Umid said. "Where are the others? I haven't seen you all together since you got that phoenix egg - it hasn't caused any arguments has it?" he asked jokingly.

Emmy and Layton looked at each other. "Yeah, about that..." Emmy began.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think that it would have actually happened." The boy answered, scratching the back of his head with embarassment.

"That's fine Umid we came to ask for some advice." Layton stated. "We need to find a way back to London, but we are clueless as to how."

"Oh, right." Umid said, his face lighting up a little. "I can help with that."


"Master, we have arrived in Kodh." Raymond announced as the Bostonius landed. He was glad that - for once - the man's plan of action wasn't something reckless. For once, it made sense and didn't involve either of them doing anything questionable. Not that his master care even if it was a bit dodgy. He thought. He wouldn't care at all so long as it got the outcome that he wanted.

"That's great, Raymond." Descole praised, walking through the door from his room whilst still securing his cape over his shoulders. Normally he wouldn't have bothered with it for such a short trip there and back, but after the residents of Kodh had seen him go in there as Sycamore he needed to be sure that he looked completely different. The cape was just an extra measure to make sure. Hopefully nobody would recognise the Bostonius - he didn't want them blabbing to whoever could be looking for them.

"Are you sure that this will be necessary, master? Professor Layton is probably still in Mossinia with the egg."

"Yes, well you know what Layton is like, he's probably built some kind contraption to get back to London and I'm not going to be wasting more fuel by going back to check." Descole said, picking up the sword that he always carried under his cape just in case.

"Now, are you ready?"

"Oh, I-ah." Was he meant to have been aware that he was to accompany his master? The older man hesitated before answering. "Aye, I'm ready."

And so, the two men stepped out of the Bostonius.

It was as if the town's population had halved since they had last been there. It was still quiet - quieter, in fact. Whether this was Targent's doing or it was simply the fact there was a strange masked man walking down the streets in a cape, Descole couldn't tell - hopefully it was not the former.

When they reached the marketplace, they found that it was a lot more active. The people there made sure to give both Descole and Raymond a wide berth. They couldn't complain - it made navigating through the crowd a lot easier. Descole also found that there was somethinng mildly amusing about having people cower away in fear at there mere sight of seeing him.

They continued to walk, when Raymond bumped into a young woman.

"My sincerest apologies, madam." The butler said with a bow.

"Raymond! Come on, we need to keep going." Descole hissed continuing to walk on. He stopped and turned around when he heard that the man had got into a conversation with the woman. Typical. They're in the process of doing something important, and Raymond remembers that he needs to exercise his social skills.

"Oh no it's fine. " The woman smiled. She took another look at Raymond. "Ooh, now you're new around here aren't you? Don't tell me your airship crashed around here too?"

Descole paced back over. "No, we didn't crash. We landed perfectly fine. Now if you don't mind-" he began before being interrupted. He glared at Raymond, who held a hand over his mouth to hide the smile that had crept onto his face from his master's annoyance.

"Oh - there's two of you! Nice to meet you both. It's not often that we get new uh," The woman noticed Descole's mask and began to feel a little intimidated but continued awkwardly anyway. "that we get new faces around here that actually intended to come here." Hopefully that comment didn't offend the man - he looked pretty vexed.

"Excuse me?" A young woman appeared from out of the crowd.

Descole groaned. Raymond had better not get talking to this other one.

The girl looked up at him, narrowing her green eyes. "I wasn't talking to you!"

"Let's go, Raymond." He said in a monotonous voice. Apparently the outfit wasn't enough to scare everyone.

"Well, nice meeting you, madam." Raymond said politely, bowing once again. He gave a quick smile to the other lady before turning back around.

Descole had already started walking off again in his impatience. Raymond ran over to catch up. Neither of them spoke until they reached the lake - it was luckily still frozen over.

"Here it is." Descole declared, towering over the icy lake, his arm outstretched. He paused for dramatic effect. "We just need to reach them step and then we are there." Putting his right foot onto the ice tentatively to begin with, the man began walking across the ice with Raymond following behind.

The pair were an odd sight- a man trying and failing to stride with his head held high across the ice with his cape flapping behind him, and a smaller man - almost half his size - trailing behind clumsily.


"Are you two ready to go?" Emmy said, her nervous giggle mistaken as one of excitement as she started up the engine of the plane.

Layton and Luke both nodded. All they hoped was that the woman's flying wasn't as bad as her driving so that they would make it there in one piece.


Reaching the steps, Descole and Raymond walked into the ruined structure at the centre. The floor was dry- meaning no one had been in for a while. The roof was still glowing with the blue inscriptions. "Are you sure that this will show us where the egg is?"

"Well it did before, and the dome appears to be glowing still, so it had better do." Descole explained.

Straight away they saw where the four eggs that were already in their possession appeared on the map - the markers were clustered together and the light from them was intense. They just had to do a bit of searching on the map for the final one. Taking half of the dome each, they looked for the marker that represented the final egg.

The glowing diagrams weren't

"Uh, Master?" Raymond called. He had found where the final egg was marked on the map, and immediately recognised where the place was.

"Raymond? You've found it already?" Descole asked, walking over to the butler with enthusiasm.

"Master," Raymond repeated. His voice was monotone and serious. "Look where it is."