Living Happily After

37: Example

'Oho? Mrs. Bougainvillea is still alive?'

There he was, Edward Jones, the one and hopefully only. He wore a train conductor uniform he 'borrowed' from the conductor on break. He was peeking through the Bougainvillea Mansion from the gate.

'So this is where the Bougainvillea live.' He eyed the guards at front. 'Well, before I go inside, I'll look around in the city, see some spots.' He walked away from the gate.

He walked towards the center of the city, seeing a states officer station. 'Wow, it is true, Leiden made more Officer stations. Let's see here.' He walked inside.

"Hi, good morning sir, how may we officers help you?"

'Oh? A kid? This should be easy enough.'

"Oh, yes young man. You see, I'm a friend of Claudia Hodgins, he told me to look here for a...mmm....let's see..his name is..." Pretending to forget his name, he tapped his foot.

"...Lieutenant Bougainvillea?" James tried completing.

"Oh! Yes, Lieutenant Bougainvillea," Edward said slowly, carefully examining James' expression, "though he didn't mention the Lieutenant part." He said, softly.

Edward carefully reaching atop his head to remove his cap, looking if the young man is following his hand-to which he is.

"You see, Hodgins informed me Mr. Bougainvillea is out of town, so I already knew he wasn't going to be here. I am here for an old friend of mine, his name is Lucas Mellor. And I also know that his sister's here, though what they both don't know is that their father...has recently passed away."

He seemingly frowned before continuing, "So other than my business with Mr. Bougainvillea, I am here to inform the Mellor siblings about his death and to send them my condolences."

"Oh," James frowned, "is that so? Well, you can sit down at the waiting seats, Sarg- Sergeant Mellor, will return from his break shortly." Silently correcting himself, remembering what Gilbert told him.

"Yes, thank you, I'll see to it his very important message will be recieve." Empathetically nodded, walking towards the seats, putting back his cap on.

'Oh how interesting this will be, I wonder how Lucas will react considering he hasn't seen his father in a couple of years. Ha! How funny, he'll never see him again, it's like he's already dead the moment Lucas left!' Edward grinned inwardly at his own thoughts, though not showing it in the outside.

In Lechernt, it was late morning, about 10 am, the group have already woken up and had done eating breakfast before meeting up with Mrs. Colby.

"Okay, since there are five of you, I made 5 forms you can fill out while touring around the town, you can go ahead and fill out the optional lines there as well. You can come back by dawn and submit what you've experienced." Mrs. Colby said, looking at the 5 of them, handing them the forms. "Any questions?" She added.

None responded.

"Good. Thank you yet again Mrs. Violet Evergarden for coming all the way here from Leiden. To your friends as well, thank you." Said Mara.

"If the results is satisfactory for you, all of this is all in the day's work Mrs. Colby." Violet bowed. "I shall write any type of form in any way the client wants it. And I will travel anywhere to meet your request, Auto Memories Doll, Violet Evergarden-Bougainvillea." She added.

Mrs. Colby nodded approvingly.

"She really is good at her job, isn't she?" Emma whispered to the twins.

The twins nodded, quite impressed by Violet, even though they haven't seen her write anyhing yet.

The day went on with them walking around the town, writing about some stuff here and there along the way.

But somewhere in the afternoon, something spiked someone's curiousity in the group that the rest didn't know of.