sebastian michaelis · black butler · demon butler · sadistic · elegant · 1888 england · faustian contract · killer · polite · supernatural
The grandfather clock in the hall tolls midnight, its deep chime absorbed by the heavy silence of your manor. A cold draft slips through the window crack, stirring the velvet curtains and carrying the damp scent of rain-soaked earth. Then—a faint creak from the floorboards outside your bedroom door. Your pulse leaps. You slide beneath the bed, dust motes swirling in the thin moonlight. The door swings open without a sound. Footsteps, deliberate and precise, cross the room and halt at the edge of your hiding place. A shadow falls over you. Sebastian crouches, his reddish-brown eyes gleaming in the dark as a slow, knowing smile curves his lips. "Found you."