"Yes...I understand. I love you too, goodbye." Lenalee ended the call with her brother and silently hung up the phone.
"What'd he say?" Krory asked. He knew it wouldn't be good news though.
The emerald-haired girl slowly turned back to her friends and sunk into a chair. "He said just to continue what we're doing. But he has to report the 14th taking over to Inspector Lvellie. He presumed the Inspector wouldn't be happy about that and there's a chance we'd get called back in and the Crows would get sent out."
"What?!" Miranda exclaimed. "But...we almost got Allen back! Can't they see that it should be his friends not people of the Vatican who are rescuing him?"
Lenalee rubbed a comforting hand on Miranda's back as the woman's eyes began to water. "I don't know, why don't we all go to bed? We could all use a good night's sleep."
"Right." Krory agreed as he stood. "I'll head up first."
Lenalee watched as the man headed towards the stairs. They were currently in an inn. After the failed rescue attempt of Allen, they spent some time helping out the citizens of Naples before checking into an inn for the night. Lavi hadn't left the room he shared with Krory. The boy was still angry over what had happened earlier.
"Let's go up too." Lenalee said as she stood.
Miranda wiped her eyes and nodded. "Right."
Now in their room the pair had changed into their nightclothes and climbed into their beds. Just after Lenalee shut off the light Miranda suddenly asked, "Lenalee, do you think Allen's alright?"
It took her less than a second to reply. "Of course! He's not the kind of person to give in easily. He's probably giving the Noah hell of a hard time."
In the darkness Miranda smiled, "Good. I'm worried for him. After the 14th took over...hopefully next time we see Allen it's Allen. If you know what I mean…"
Lenalee nodded grimly. "I do. I'm heading to bed, goodnight."
"Goodnight Lenalee."
She turned onto her side and faced the wall. Right now she was mentally tired as she was physically. Hopefully tomorrow Lavi and everyone else would be in better spirits. With those thoughts in mind, Lenalee shut her eyes and soon drifted off to sleep.
The next day the group began to look for clues concerning the next appearance of the Ark. Lenalee had called her brother once again and told him to keep tabs on large groups of Akuma or Noah sightings. All they could do was travel and hopefully stumble across a miracle. They were back to square one and to them it was plain frustrating.
Lavi was in his room double checking the contents of his bag to make sure it was prepared for their journey to the next town. He looked at the items as he placed them into the bag.
Food...Water...Rope….what's this?
In his hands was a folded piece of paper. He didn't remember this, maybe it was Krory's? Curiosity took over him and he gently unfolded it. His green eye searched the paper before he found three words in the middle of the page.
They were written in Latin, now was one of the times he was thankful Bookman forced him to learn that difficult language.
Ut in Anglia. Go to England. [1]
A chuckle escape his lips and he ran a hand through his hair. "It can't be that easy can it?..."
"So you just found a note in your bag saying 'Go to England?'" Lenalee asked skeptically. "Do you think it could be the Ark's next location?"
Lavi shrugged. He'd just told everyone of his discovery and had been bombarded with questions. "Dunno. And no one put it there right?"
Everyone shook their heads no.
"It could be a trap." Krory said. "One of the Earl's followers may have planted it to get us off his trail."
"That's the thing though. We were never on his trail. All the time when we investigated we didn't find anything helpful. We should go to check it out. Who knows it might be something." Lavi said.
"I agree with Lavi. Trap or not this is the only thing we have right now." Miranda spoke in a firm voice.
Krory and Lenalee shared a glance before they both nodded agreeing with Lavi's words.
"You're right Miranda, be it hundreds of Akuma waiting for us in England if there's a chance we can get Allen back I'll suck all of their blood and push onward!" Krory declared.
Lavi patted the man on the back and said, "No need to get so dramatical Kro-chan…"
Lenalee's eyes flickered over the two packed bags then asked, "Is everything ready?"
"Yup! I already double-checked. Since our destinations England we might want to catch a ship. It's a bit of a long walk." Lavi said as he stood and slung one of the packs over his shoulder.
"Then it's off to England!" Krory said as he too grabbed a pack and headed for the door. As the group filed out of the inn they failed to noticed a cloaked figure hiding behind the stairwell. Upon the innkeeper passing by he was already gone.
[1] For the Latin words I used google translate so hopefully they're correct.
Hey guys! If you might notice Miranda doesn't have a lot of speaking parts in here, I try to get her in every now and then but to me she's a quiet person so she doesn't talk much. But don't forget she's there ^~^. And a cloaked guy shows up...you'll find out who he is soon. Thanks for the reviews! Until next time!)