Disclaimer: Sick of saying it…
Author's Note: Written for my creative writing class. The assignment was to take a character "we've worked with before" and write a letter from their PoV, that tells us a bit about them as a person.
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London, 1889
Madam Red,
Enclosed in this envelope you will find a list of names. Rather, you will find a list of potential suspects— groups or persons unknown whom Her Majesty the Queen currently suspects of partaking in underground dealings; more specifically: unwarranted medical experimentation. As a doctor yourself, I deemed it prudent to ask you, first and foremost, if you have ever made contact with any of these men. If serendipity has made this so, I would further ask you to provide me with any crucial bits of background information that you possess, so that I might begin my own investigation into these ghastly matters.
I would, of course, have preferred not to ask this of you, and instead left this tedious charge to my butler, Sebastian, but he has been briefly detained by other, more pressing matters for Queen Victoria. As for Lau, any medication that does not deal directly in opiates seems to be outside of his sphere of knowledge (making him, as always, virtually useless); I have already contacted Undertaker, but his specialty lies in the dead, not those whose experiments leave Londoners for dead. It goes without saying that Scotland Yard would prove no help at all— if they had any idea what they were doing, Her Majesty would have no need for the Phantomhive family in the first place.
I am certain that you understand, Madam Red, that this matter is one of the utmost importance. As this is the case, you have my explicit permission to come by the manor unannounced, provided that you have managed to obtain the requested information. (However, this invitation does not extend to your butler, Grell. Both Sebastian and I would very much prefer it if you left him at home; my maid Maylene does a fine job shattering the Royal Doulton and Wedgewood without that klutz's help.)
Wishing my
dearest aunt nothing but the best,
Ciel Phantomhive
