Elaine tapped her fingers on the desk of the interrogation room with impatience. She began wondering when it just seemed to go down hill so suddenly. First, she and the rest of Professor Layton's group went up to the Barde estate where she met Arianna and her brother Tony. She was thankful that the Professor didn't seem to think of them as suspects. They didn't seem the kind to be involved with criminal actions. Even if Arianna had been accused of being a witch. Though that was utter nonsense to her.

Arianna did however have the Specter's Flute however, a dark peach coloured ocarina, and played it out from across the water. There a large aquatic creature that looked like a mixture of sea cow and seal rose up. A creature named Loosha. Elaine couldn't stop grinning as she recalled the creature. While Elaine may not have seemed the type of person, she did have an incredibly weakness for cute things and Loosha... Loosha was just so adorable in Elaine's eyes! And it's cry, OH, so freaking cute! Elaine actually giggled to herself before continuing her train of thought to more bitter things.

Chief Jakes. Now, Elaine had always been thought as a child to wait until you've met a person before fully judging them. And while most things Elaine had heard of the police chief these days had not been the most pleasant, that lesson that had been more or less ingrained in her to some degree had made her want to believe he was just... Very, very stupid.

To put it in the nicest of ways.

But then he actually appeared and captured Loosha, and Arianna. Taking pride in arresting a girl no older then ten or eleven. Truly, an achievement to be proud of.

Then of course, the reason she was in the interrogation room to begin with. Apparently, questions of validity of the dig were brought into question. Questions such as whether it was actually legal or not, and if finding the Golden Garden was just a ruse. Naturally Elaine called nonsense but Jakes said she would have to go to the station where some government official would be talking with her. Elaine had been very reluctant but in cases like this it's best to just go along with sometimes.

So she reluctantly left with the pig headed bast-... git. It had been a bit of comfort to hear the Professor say he would try and help her as soon as they could. True, Elaine knew they would mainly be focusing on helping Arianna and Loosha and the town of course, but knowing they cared enough to promise her some sort of assistance helped ease her mind. She had told herself that she was fine and there was nothing to worry about.

However, thinking the apparent charges over, she did know there could be something genuine here. Here she was, a woman in the dig site where the rest of the archaeologists left. Digging and looking for the Golden Garden. It didn't help too much that she was the only person there. She could sort of understand why it might look suspicious in some ways. Elaine would just have to play nice and hope this was just a misunderstanding she could sort out easily enough.

"Well, girly. The man's finally here." Elaine didn't show any specific emotion to the chief of police. Not even a wrinkle of disdain from her nose. Instead, she tilted her head to the side.

"Désolé? Je ne parle pas anglais." Elaine said innocently. Well, she'd play fair with this government official. Jakes however was a special case. Said man narrowed his eyes in annoyance.

"Don't try to pull that on me, Frenchie. I know you speak English, I heard you!"

"Et j'aurais pensé qu'ils auraient une personne compétente en charge de la police ici, mais à la place ils ont mis un cochon imbécile tête comme vous en charge." Elaine simply smiled. She could at least give a little insult here and there, and was glad she could still speak French at a fast enough pace to confuse Jakes. The man blinked and looked back behind him,

"Er, do you want a translator? She's only speaking French."

"Pas de ma faute, vous avez commencé il. Creep!"

"Dis you just call me a creep?!"

"I'll take it from here." Elaine frowned, as she could here the voice from behind Jakes. It sounded familiar...

But seeing him enter just made Elaine confused. The man she hadn't seen for a while. But he just simply smirked, his eyes covered by his mask as he closed the door behind him.

"Descole?" Elaine questioned, furrowing her eyebrows. "What are you doing 'ere?"

"I apologise we had to meet again this way, Ms. Hawthorne," Descole began. "But when I didn't find you at the excavation site I wasn't sure if I would have a chance to find you myself so I had that blundering fool keep an eye out for you on the off chance you were about town somewhere."

"What? You did..." Elaine wasn't sure what to say. But the bad feeling she first had when meeting Descole began to rise, though slowly.

"But of course. I needed someone to keep this 'Specter' business quiet until I found the Golden Garden," Descole went on calmly. The somewhat friendly tone he had used before wasn't present. "So while he wasn't my first choice, he is easy to manipulate. So funny what people will do for promises of power. False ones at that."

"What are you talking about." Elaine quickly stood from her chair as Descole walked towards the table. She didn't move back right away but she seemed ready to move, almost immediately.

"Now, now Ms. Hawthorne. Don't disappoint me. You're a fairly intelligent woman so surely you can piece it together by now since some of the clues hve just been laid out." drawled Descole. Elaine began to pale, realization coming down on her as she stepped back, shaking.

"It... It was you. You did all this. The Specter..."

"One of my creations." Descole filled in, a little smugly. "I am a scientist after all. I needed to find the Garden and with the legends of this ghostly apparition, it was the perfect cover. Especially with the fog and mist of this pathetic town."

"But... Why did you-"

"Visit you?" Descole interrupted Elaine. "Well, like I said during our earlier meetings, your being present was unexpected. I was happy at first for your colleagues to be gone, but it was after that I then realised that they could have been useful. So for you to stay was a slight bit of fortune for me. You would continue your work while I did mine, and if it seemed you found anything of use, it would a wonderful thing for myself." He stepped around the table and Elaine moved around though she tried not to back herself into a corner. He smirked towards her, Elaine's growing fear becoming obvious.

"But that wasn't all that intrigued me. You read the Azran glyphs. Not a talent many possess and there's only so much I can find from translated documents. As you have probably figured out by now, my dear, you have some value to me."

"And what makes you think I'll go along with this?" Elaine demanded, trying to get her mind straight and thinking. His ghostly chuckle didn't help whatsoever.

"Ms. Hawthorne. Whoever said there was ever a choice. Granted, I would have happily employed you but given your poor acception to this, it seems force is need." Elaine's eyes widened and she did the first thing she could think of. He right leg swung up to kick his chest, but he caught it with ease so without thinking Elaine grabbed the table for balance and swung her other leg up. Descole however immediately let got of her leg causing her to fall hard on her back. He tutted as Elaine groaned in pain.

"Honestly Ms. Hawthorne, you disappoint me at the moment. And here I thought you were intelligent." Elaine glared up at the man, and began backing away until she hit a wall.

"And here I thought you were nice." Elaine muttered back.

"Now, if it's any consolation, I did find you to be pleasant to talk with. It can be hard to find someone to talk with about matters such as archaeology." Descole said calmly. Elaine swallowed as she continued to glare.

"So what 'appens now? You kill me?" Descole chuckled as she shuck his head.

"Why, of course not. Like I said, you have value to me and I won't just throw it away. It could be worse for you though. You could be Mrs. Triton and Mr. Noble." Elaine furrowed her eyebrows but more realization hit her as she felt ill.

"The Mayor's wife and their butler?"

"Yes. I had to be close enough to town and my devices, didn't I? Capturing the butler and taking his place was fairly easy enough." Desolce explained. "Mrs. Triton however... Well, she was one of the few intelligent people in town. She seemed to see through my disguise with ease. It was fortunate she often went on long trips without telling anyone."

"So you kidnapped them?"

"Hostages really. Not that it matters to you." Descole smirked as he brought out handcuffs hidden in his pocket.

"Because if anything, you were damned to this situation from the start."