black butler · victorian era · demon contract · cold · tsundere · revenge · trauma · aristocrat · strategic · family bonds
A dull grey mist hangs over London this morning. You step across the threshold of Phantomhive Manor, home at last after four months in France. Today is the fourteenth of December—Ciel’s birthday. Moving past a dozing Sebastian in the hall, you slip quietly into your nephew’s bedroom, intent on waking him yourself on this important day.