"How long do you people intend to stay here," Ciel asked, from his seat at the head of the table.
Lucy twerled her fork around idly between her fingers as she seat across from Lau. Her eyes lazily rolled over to Ciel.
"Ciel, don't be rude to your guests," she muttered.
A tick mark popped on the blue haired boy's forehead.
" I'm the one being rude," he countered back at her quietly.
Lucy stuck out her tongue out at him and winked before returning to her food.
"We'll leave when our business is finished," Soma said, his hands folded before him.
"Come to think of it, you said you were searching from someone, right," Lau hummed.
"And why are you staying here too," Ciel asked, turning to Lau.
"An interesting question." Lau smiled and Lucy felt a shiver go down her spine.
"I'm looking for a woman," Soma continued staring strait at Ciel. "Her name is Mina. She was servent at my palace."
The prince pulled out a poorly drawn picture of what appeared to be a woman.
"Sebastian does that give you enough to find her," Ciel asked.
The butler in question moved over to Soma.
"Even I can't do much with this," he sighed looking at the picture. "I'll do my best."
Sebastian bowed.
"Bitch," Lucy whispered quietly enough so only the demon would hear her.
"And what was she doing in England," Ciel asked.
"Mina was my attendant, more or less my nursemaid."
To Lucy the words became a boring mesh. It wasn't that she wasn't enjoying meeting Agni and Soma, she was. There were about four episodes standing between her an Angela. The grip on her silverware increased. Her veins burned with the feral need to destroy the so called angel. Once she was sure Alina was safe Lucy didn't know if she'd even be able to let the anime take its course. One way or another the angel was going to die, so what would it matter if she was the one to rip her fucking head off.
Her ears buzzed as she tuned back in.
"That's alot of fuss over one servant," Ciel commented.
Oh, how Lucy wished she could make a comment about Aline, but she held her tongue.
"No, it's not," Soma shouted.
Lucy winced at the sudden increase in volume. Soma jumped out of his seat and marched over to Ciel.
"Can you even comprehend my despair at losing her," Soma shouted, shaking Ciel. " Can you imagin how much I-"
"No, I can't. The kind of trifling dispair something like that could inspire? I can't understand it an I don't care to," Ciel replied monotonly. The boy flung Soma's hands off of him. "Some things no amount of struggling will get back. And some dispair can't ever be escaped. Maybe you can't understand that, though."
"But, but still I don't want this. I don't want to be alone in that palace!"
Lucy stepped into the dimly lit room as Agni and Soma left to continue their search. She moved to sit next to a very annoyed Ciel. The blonde was sure that Soma had just refused to play old maid with Ciel.
"He's cuter when he doesn't talk," Lucy commented as she delt out the playing cards.
Lau's head popped in the door.
" Oh, there you are, my lord," the Chinese man greeted.
"What," snapped Ciel, crushing one of the cards.
"Wasteful," Lucy screeched at him.
She snatched the poor deformed card from his hand and tried to flatten it out.
Lau moved closer to the table, his hands hidden in his sleeves.
"Oh, my."
Lucy chuckled and gave up on fixing the card.
" What, pray tell, is so funny," Ciel huffed, as he began to rub his temples.
"Some things you can never get back," she replied, weaving the wrinkled card between her fingers.
A few hours later the trio could hear Agni and Soma returning.
"I have to say those two are very suspicious,"Lau admitted, before grabbing another card.
"Well, yes, but I don't see how they would benefit form those crimes. They don't seem to bear much of a grudge over the colonial rule."
"Perhaps it's the irish rebel in me, but it'd be perfectly reasonable if they were upset about it," Lucy interjected, as she discarded a few of her cards.
Ciel rolled his eye before continuing.
" In any case, if they are doing it would they waltz right by me on their way to commit the crimes? It's begging me to suspect them."
"True, then maybe they really are just looking for someone? What do you think, kitten," Lau hummed.
" I think, I'd like to make you an eunuch," Lucy hummed in a sickeningly sweet voice, as she battered her eye lashes at Lau.
Ciel tossed down his cards.
"It's still to soon to say," the boy concluded.
"Oh, I don't know," Lucy mused with a small knowing smile. Her cards fluttered onto the table and she turned towards the fire. " I think things are going to start becoming clear very soon."
