Erik lay hanging from the balcony and climbed up once he heard the boy had left, the moonlight deflected by his mask. "Yes boy...If you think me a beast you're right to fear
me if you stand betwixt me and my love...though I must say...your aim is getting better."he said as he looked down upon a torn fragment of his cloak. He silently entered the
room where so soon ago...his love had sat...defending him. "So boy, you think destroying my letter will end this all? My affections are not so easily shaken, you shall learn
that soon enough child...soon enough." he said with a soft chuckle. He strode proudly around the study, his cloak trailing behind him. "This is the way I should be allowed to
live vicomte...not you. But.." he paused with another soft chuckle. "but soon enough both home and wife shall be mine for the taking." A sabre lay upon the mantle on a
stand, a small memorial to the comte was engraved in the stand. "How much fun and irony could follow from just this blade...well...I have always been one for drama." Erik
whispered as he raised slowly the sabre and placed it at his side.He quickly took the quill, parchment, and ink from the desk in the corner. "Shame shame...children should
not play with such toys- O.G." he wrote hurriedly on the parchment, he folded it and leaned it against the stand where the sword had rested. Erik then took a seat in the chair
that had been christines and began to write again, a large grin upon his face as he scribbled away. After a few minutes the firelight began to die down, ever so slowly, Erik
turned to the side table only to spot a pipe. "Well well." he said. "If I am to be a nobleman soon enough...I shall have to try to live like one." He snatched the pipe quickly and
rooted around for the tobacco and a match. Quickly he struck the match and drew in deeply on the pipe, allowing smoke rings to puff up slowly as he wrapped up his writing.
He snuffed the pipe and set it down on the table again as he sealed up the envelope. A grin on his lips, he let out a soft chuckle and slunk joyfully from the study and up the
stairs.