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[demonlordling]

[There's a rise of brazen violin notes rising from the papers' folds. For those musically inclined, it's Bach. It isn't bad, exactly. Technique-wise, it's very exacting, but there's no passion in it at all, hitting each note as if it were simply a bump in the road to avoid. The player sighs in frustration, and hurls the bow as far from his body as

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[onlyanapple]

[Damnit, Crowley, why are you all of these things?]

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Excuse me? I've only got one contract and unless your name is Satan, then it's not with you.

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[demonlordling]

[A rather embarrassing cry of alarm!]

Why I-
I filtered it-

That was not meant for you- it-

[World-weary sigh that doesn't match a thirteen-year-old at all.]

...Crowley, is that you?

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[onlyanapple]

No, it's your aunt Muriel. Of course it's me.

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[demonlordling]

So you are a demon... I had heard, but...

...Well, this is horribly awkward.
I'm afraid I was addressing my wayward contracted demon. Beg your pardon.

[demonlordling]

The journals and records go back several years. Even with brilliant minds and fierce witchcraft, no one has managed to wrench a way from this place. It seems the Castle is a cruel keeper.

[demonlordling]

Perhaps I shall reach that point. I do not enjoy being... [No, not helpless...]

Removed from control.

[demonlordling]

[Another sigh... He isn't about to be upset with her. It wasn't her fault.]

Forgive me. Perhaps I grow restless. Our free will remains, but it seems like little more than a goldfish inside a large, well-furnished bowl. There are still glass walls.

This place has been good to some. If I were to be candid with myself, my homeland would not fare me much better.

[demonlordling]

Hopeless... Ah, yes.

Rhyme. Like the musical notes? How charming. Ciel Phantomhive... Who, for his part, is rather ashamed you had to come to know me this way.

I am not accustomed to being so removed from control.

[selenoscape]

That was very pretty.

[A pause.]

I think maybe we have to make the best of what we have while we're here. Like each other.

[demonlordling]

[...Aw... I mean, humph.]

Each other? Ah. Don't trapped creatures begin to quarrel?

[selenoscape]

Sometimes. That's why we need to make sure we all work together.

[demonlordling]

Mortals aren't very talented at that. That's why there are wars.

[vivatsomnum]

[ Lurking Dream is lurking as he contemplates the meaning of free will. ]

Would you prefer a cage that you chose?

[demonlordling]

Mm. I was in one before. But it was my choice. I chose my cage, and my grim release from it. I'd far prefer that to an enigmatic keeper.

[vivatsomnum]

Did you prefer it because there was a chance of release?

[demonlordling]

Yes. And even then, I dictated when I would be released and how, however dark.

Though I suppose the way things are, I would not be released at my homeland, either.

It is a damnable spiral.