Ciel | 01

[phantomhivemind]

Who: Ciel Phantomhive, others welcome
Where: Espoir
Style: Third
Status: Open

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[kyudousha]

... It was truly fascinating how every time she so much as takes a foot out of her dwelling, she somehow ends up taking a long-winded detour to the bakeries that litter the shopping district of the city. Marching along the graveled path towards one of the several libraries in Somarium, she pondered over this phenomenon with with a syrup covered sweet jammed into her mouth a several more of them in a little paper bag clutch between her textbooks. If she had to explain it, she would have said that the sweets simply compelled her, and she had no choice, really, but that would be less than logical and Rita didn't deal in illogical things

[phantomhivemind]

Ciel stiffened and turned toward the source of the voice, eyebrows snapping together in a scowl. He did not like being looked down upon and trivialized with words, particularly from someone who hardly appeared older than he was (though unfortunately taller).

With some effort he forced his brow to clear. Children were easier to speak to than adults, and far more straightforward. Maybe he could learn something from this one. "I'm twelve years old," he said in a voice that strained to be pleasant. "How old are you?"

[kyudousha]

... Definitely much younger than she had anticipated. Still, though, there was something that could be said about meeting someone somewhat her own age in a place like this. She descended from the top of the incline, shifting her sweets in her arm so as to not drop them if she happened to trip and fall down the hill, or something.

Upon reaching the bottom, she surveyed the other with interest.

"Fifteen." She answered. "You look like some kind of noble's kid. Looking for your butler, or something?"

[phantomhivemind]

Ciel quashed the urge to tell her that he was the noble, the head of the powerful Phantomhive family--a name even a child ought to recognize. Until he knew what this place was, it might be prudent to keep his identity a secret.

"I am looking for someone," he confided, putting a rueful smile on his face, trying to appear the picture of innocence. "But he'll find me if I don't find him. What's your name?"

[kyudousha]

Being purposefully vague, huh. Still, probability speaking, both boy and whoever he was looking for ending up in Somarium at a close time interval was very slim, considering the usual pattern of things. He probably wouldn't find whoever that he was looking for anyway.

"Someone at your beck and call, huh." She huffed, amused. "About what I've come to expect from you noble types, really, so... I'm not too surprised. It's Rita Mordio. You?"

[phantomhivemind]

Apparently this girl did know a noble when she saw one. He still wasn't about to come out with his family name just yet. "Ciel," he replied simply. Let her make what she would out of his secrecy.

"I seem to be lost. What village is this?"

[kyudousha]

If she noticed his omission, she didn't show it. She shifted her 'groceries' so that the weight distribution was more... even - her right arm was starting to ache a little from the inactivity - and gave him yet another look over. This all but confirmed her earlier hypothesis. Now, how was she supposed to break it to him without seeming too weird about it?

"You're not lost, actually." She shrugged. "Unless, by your definition, we're all lost. You've been transported to a different pocket dimension all together, and... the village is called 'Espoir', but the world itself is called 'Somarium'. And we've yet to figure out a way to get back to our original dimensions so... I guess you can say we're all stuck here."

She paused. "You still following, or is this too much for you?"

[phantomhivemind]

As Ciel suspected, the girl was good for some answers about this place. Unfortunately her answers made little sense to him. He frowned at her choice of words, remembering lessons in physics and mathematics, where dimension meant property of space.

"I've been taken here against my will, as I suspected, and I won't be able to leave it," he surmised. "And the physics of this place are...different. Am I correct?"

[kyudousha]

"You're good on the first part - but not entirely." Suddenly, her confectioneries were quite a bit more interesting than they were before. "People come and go all the time. But it's not like you can control that. Where they end up after they 'leave' is anyone's guess." She raised an eyebrow.

"And how did you derive physics out what I've just told you?" She demanded, looking more or less displeased. But rather curious as well. If he had a valid reason for the connection, he may be an asset to talk to. "I don't think I've said anything about the properties of this world. Unless, you know, you've noticed something I haven't."

[phantomhivemind]

That didn't sound very reassuring. "And who is responsible for all of us being here? Or does anyone know that?"

Ciel looked back at her impatiently. "You said dimensions, did you not? That aside, I've never been to any village that could make people appear and disappear seemingly at will. Either someone brought me here without my knowing, or I was somehow transported from London."

[kyudousha]

"We're going to guess the Overlord." At this point, a jab towards the sky sufficed, for the floating castle was just passing overhead, eclipsing the sun dramatically. "Personally, I don't believe a single person has that kind of a power, really, ghost or not. We're still studying the reason, but it might be because drawing random people from other worlds in is the way this world fuels itself."

Might be too much for a kid like this one to understand, though, if his impatient look was anything to go by. She huffed. "Never heard of this 'London', though it's not surprisingly, anyway. It's not really a village - there's this city complex that surrounds this place." She paused. "You'll need a place to stay, by the way."