~Lucia's POV~
We sat in the carriage for what had felt like hours.
Occasionally the carriage stopped for a while before it started to move again.
Eventually my eyes closed and I drifted off into sleep, later woken up by someone tapping my shoulder.
After having opened my eyes I saw the face of that long-haired man who accompanied the old chubby man right in front of me.
„We're there now, little girl.", he said, reaching out for my hand and pulling me out of the carriage.
The chubby man approached me and pressed my cheeks together with his hand.
„This is where you'll be living from now on! Hahaha!", he laughed.
Something moved deep inside of me.
„Disgusting.", I blurted out. „What?", he raised an eyebrow.
„Your hands smell like shit. Stop touching me, you filthy bag of fat.",
I furrowed my brows in aner while watching the chubby man's face turn red.
„Don't you dare piss me off. If you haven't noticed yet – you're my slave. You're not supposed to talk back.
Seems like I have to teach you some manners, you're awfully disobedient.",
and so he struck out for a slap across my face which had my legs giving in and ultimately taking my consciousness.
I woke up feeling lightheaded and saw what looked like a ceiling
as soon as I managed to open up my eyes.
Using my hands for support I tried to sit up straight.
My hands were sinking in a little bit; as I lowered my gaze I saw that I was sitting on a large bed.
Suddenly a chuckle made me twich out of surprise – the long-haired man from before
stared down at me from across the room.
„So you woke up finally.", he said, grinning in an unsettling way.
„Wear this.", he said as he threw clothes at me.
„Why should I take orders from you? I don't even know who you are",
I spat out the words, feeling anger dwell up inside of me.
The man approached me slowly. He was oozing out some very sinister aura
which felt strangely familiar to me.
I couldn't quite put my finger to it though.
He leaned over to me, showing his teeth in a very gruesome smile.
„You should listen, young kitten, or else you'll face very ugly consequences.",
he grazed my throat with a small but sharp looking dagger.
I could feel tiny drops of blood escaping and running down my throat.
He reached out for the droplets and wiped them away with his fingertip.
„You wouldn't want that...right?", his voice murmured through my mind.
„You were bought by Duke Samuel, you lost the right to choose what to do.
From now on you're just a puppet acting accordingly to their master's wish. Got that?",
he stroked my soft ears while locking eyes with me.
So I'm back to square one, it seems. I was just getting used to my new life. And to...
I furrowed my brows and unfolded the new clothes after the man took a few steps back.
It didn't seem like he was gonna turn around so I set both of my feet on the cold ground, still feeling a little bit tipsy.
In front of me were a pair of rather short pants, black in color. As I held up the dress I saw that it had slits going up to where the hips would be.
I never saw any such clothes but I lived in a chamber for most of my life so I wasn't all too fazed by it.
I slipped into the clothes and reached out for the red sleeved shirt, pulling it over my head and ultimately tried to fasten the corset around my waist.
I fumbled with the strings for a while until I heard the man moving towards my direction, taking away the strings from my hand.
His breath was on my neck, the aura seemingly piercing through my spirit.
He pat my back once he was done.
I walked towards the large mirror which hung across the room and stared at the clothes.
They were airier than the ones master Ciel had given me.
That's when I noticed my skin had turned blue-ish where the fat man had slapped me.
I tried touching it and flinched when the pain rushed through my body.
Quickly trying to put up my hair I turned to the man
„Now what do you want from me.", I asked.
„The master asked for you, so I came to get you.", he replied, weirdly cocking his head.
I squinted my eyes and walked towards the door.
The man's gaze seemed to be pinned on my back but the feeling disappeared after he too walked out of the door.
I followed him through a couple of hallways.
All in all the mansion I was in didn't seem as majestic as Ciels.
It had a few paintings here and there but it appeared sham nonetheless.
We reached a large door which the man opened.
Being shoved into the room it was closed behind me, the man staying outside.
The master of this house leaned against his desk.
His eyes set on my face, his gaze piercing my conscience, leaving me with a feeling of familiar unease.
I stared on his feet, noticing him moving towards me and touching my hair.
„Lucia.", he called out my name and I felt how my stomach turned as he began
twisting a strand of hair around his finger.
I didn't react, solely my breathing resounded in the room.
„Do you know why I purchased you?", he said after a while.
Oh how repulsed I feel by his voice, I had thought.
„No, Lord.", I said in a monotonous way.
I had a rouch idea though. I wasn't unfamiliar with such things.
„Alright, I'll tell you.", he began and shoved me towards a chair.
„I want to achieve more power, greater power; I want to become superior to all.
I had heard froma reliable source that a nobleman of another country had somehow acquired a power not from this world,
a sinister, massive power, not to be easily controled by...humans."
It sent shivers to my spine noticing that this was something way deeper than I originally thought.
„I wanted to achieve it too so I searched until I found a way. However,
I do not want to be a slave to this power so I tried to find a vessel...and so here you are.",
he put his hands onto my shoulders.
I was flashed, stunned by his words but he didn't give me much time to process what I had just heard.
„Besides...", his voice became raspy as he slid his hands down my arms.
„I was beginning to get a little lonely here. A man can't stay on his own for too long after all, can he?",
his chuckling next to my ear made me want to throw up. But then...
Sorry for always being so late with the new chapters but I honestly had lots of issues thinking of how to properly continue this story but I think I roughly came up with something... Hope any of you who's reading this at the moment still enjoys this story nonetheless! :) Have a good day and see you next month~
