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As the lights turned off and on, Alyssa awoke. She blinked groggily and noticed that she was alone. Seeing that the room was empty worried her, where had everyone else gone? Had they been taken while she slept? Her mind spun with questions, none of which she knew the answers to. After wondering terrible thoughts for a few moments, she decided to get up and investigate.

Where could they be? Maybe I should check the Study... Aura did say she was going there to see what she could do about the camera's, didn't she? She couldn't quite remember, but what she had come up sounded reasonable enough. So off Alyssa went to find the Study.

It didn't take very long to get there, and she could hear the chattering of everyone in the room. "You guys should have told me you were coming here, I was worried sick..." She said.

Elias followed Alex back to where the offending book was and looked over it confusedly. "I didn't know we alphabetised the books to begin with," he said. "Truthfully, I've only been home for about a week...." Nevertheless, he pulled the book out and flipped it around. "'AAC? The heck?" He used a handy paper clip to unlock the lock and flipped through the pages. There were a few loose pages with designs and diagrams drawn on them, and all the writing was in some strange hieroglyphic language.

Not a code Elisa and I use... He flipped to the back, confused. A tiny circle with an arrow drawn through it caught his eye. "Wait. That was my grandmother's trademark sign when she was young. What is this thing?"

((If you had something planned, please tell me and I'll be happy to edit! >.<))

"Great!" Aura said, standing and retrieving her tools. "I'm sorry I wasn't much of a help," she said embarrassedly. "Thank you!"

She returned to Karin, her feelings mixed. She was elated that the problem with the cameras was solved, but frustrated that she still was not able to do anything to alleviate matters. Never mind. I'll just do my best to not get in anyone's way then...

"How can I help, Karin? Something about cities?"

Aura heard Alex's voice and glanced around the room. "Should we split up? Some of us can go down to see what the new clue is and the rest of us can stay and continue to search the study?"

"Can you tell me where Elias has traveled to? Specifically cities?" Karin asked, tapping her fingers on the desk in the study. She needed to clear some things up in her mind first, there were too many clues on the bird cage. She had to figure out which ones linked up with which.

"I'll go with him!" Elisa exclaimed and scurried after Mark.

Elias showed Mark the book, thinking hard about his grandmother and was finally forced to admit to himself that he spent too much time away from his family. "Maybe Elisa knows?" he asked, seeing his hyperactive sister bounding down the stairs. She skipped right up to him and gave him a tight hug as a greeting and "thank-goodness-you're-alive" sentiment.

"I know what? And hey! You found the Adventures of the Atlantis Crew!" She peered over Mark's shoulder at the book. "Grandmother's childhood diary thing. I doubt it's a clue. I don't know anything about it, only that it was Grandmother's. I was helping her look for it over the summer but we never found it."

She rambled on. "What about it?"

((Nice))

Mark sat silent after seeing the clue.