Prologue - No Way Back

"I really am sorry, Miss Perfetti. I have tried everything I can think of... "

"Try harder," Emiliana snarled, her hands clenching into fists.

"I'm... I'm sorry."

Emiliana frowned deeply and turned to her accomplice. "What say you, Katrielle?"

Kat looked deep in thought. "What I fail to understand is why you told me that you could get me here and get me back if you knew you couldn't?"

"I don't know."

"What have you got against me? What have you got against my father?"

"Your father?"

"Professor Hershel Layton."

He frowned. "But what has he got to do with this?"

Kat and Emiliana looked at each other.

"Everything."