Note: Make sure you read the previous chapter before this one! I usually get an email when I update this thing, and I don't know about y'all, but I didn't for last week's chapter.
"Copper"
Elizabeth and Mey-Rin were dressed in nondescript street clothes as they waited in the back of a pub for their informant. Surreptitiously, Mey-Rin withdrew the lorgnette she wore on a chain around her neck to read the note that had delivered to their home earlier that evening by a scruffy street rat of a boy.
"It's the right time," she muttered to Elizabeth, "Do you see a man with a red handkerchief?"
Lizzy scanned the crowd again.
"There."
Following him, they slipped out the back.
There was a swift exchange of words, and Mey-Rin took careful notes before Lizzy pressed a small coin purse into the man's hand. He looked uneasy.
"Yer just a slip of a thing," he grumbled, "Didn't expect that. Take—take care. Ya' must know it's dangerous." The man ducked his head, scowling, and slipped away around a grimy street corner.
"The names, Mey-Rin?" Elizabeth sighed, "Do we know who'll be next?"
"Right," the redhead said, "Nine prostitutes were seen visiting the Royal London Hospital for an unknown procedure. Of them, eight are already dead. The only person left is one…Mary Jane Kelly."
"Mary Jane Kelly," Elizabeth echoed, "She's our first priority. We'll need to take her somewhere safe, in absolute secrecy." She paused. "Do you think that Mr. Undertaker would mind us questioning her at his shop?"
"We can worry about that later. We have to find her first."
A/N: I feel that I should note: although in real life there were only five murders that were likely committed by "Jack the Ripper," in Kuroshitsuji canon, both the manga and the anime, when Ciel holds up his list of Madam Red's victims there are about eight or nine names crossed off.
Also, you know what sucks? Trying to keep this thing historically accurate when the manga has televisions, cars (they could be steam powered cars, but what they show looks way too modern) and whatever the heck they used for all the performances in the current arc, all in the 1800s. D: By the way, did you know that gramophone records were first marketed in 1889?
"Copper," referring to money, a conductive metal, or brownish shade of red