✳ 002 ✳ [video] // [action] for Phancyhive residents.

[stabilimentum]

[At first, the video is dark.] --be fine. [And the voice is low, quiet, and intent. With it, the darkness shifts and scrapes near the microphone, resolving into a gloved hand that is holding on to the NV to help stabilize it. The NV seems to be hanging in the air, a little above eye-level with a still-obscured face.] Yes. Just as we practiced

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[wishgrant]

Brother. To keep him happy.

[ AND NO ONE IS SURPRISED. ]

-- Bluebells!

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[stabilimentum]

Your brother's happiness... [Isn't that how all of this started?] Always worth the effort, Master Luca.

[As for the bluebells, Claude takes full credit. Hahaha.]

Yes. The gardens are pleasantly diverse.

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[wishgrant]

It is! [ it's the thing that led to luca accidentally ruining people's lives with a smile on his face.

oops. ]

I don't remember seein' 'em before. When'd you plant 'em?

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[stabilimentum]

Then I bid you to continue. [As long as Alois is happy, then Claude can move about more freely...]

Just this morning. It was somewhat impulsive of me.

voice;

[proxysearch]

[Hell.]

Some of us know our raison d'être from the moment of our births. Others do not. It's a strange concept, unfortunately.

voice;

[stabilimentum]

Predetermined destiny isn't a concept I feel willing to accept. Everything can be transformed into everything else.

... My apologies, but I'm unable to place your voice. My name is Claude Faustus, and you are--?

voice;

[proxysearch]

A wise way to live, Mr. Faustus.

My name is Re-l Mayer. We haven't spoken before but I know you live with Ciel Phantomhive and Alois Trancy.

voice;

[stabilimentum]

It seems the most practical to me.

A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Miss Mayer. [Sincere there, and then a touch curious:] I do belong to the Trancy family. Alois Trancy is my master.

[Voice]

[littlest_lord]

And one you lose something you can never truly get it back.

[Voice]

[stabilimentum]

Then this is something else we'll have to disagree on, Master Ciel. [A mockery, maybe, addressing Ciel as he does Luca and other "important" members of the household.] All hope is not yet lost.

[Voice]

[littlest_lord]

Don't give me such bull.

[Voice]

[stabilimentum]

I possess proof of it.

voice - private

[gaveherwings]

I believe this is a conversation we've already had, Mr. Faustus.

How has your work been going?

voice - private

[stabilimentum]

Ah, Mr. Yumeno, that we have. You did inspire me to reevaluate myself.

It's needlessly complicated at times, but fulfilling. Much like piecing a scattered puzzle back together. How do you fare with yours?

Re: voice - private

[gaveherwings]

Doctor. [a soft correction] It's an intimate subject, you do understand.

I've...had less stressful weeks, certainly.

voice - private

[stabilimentum]

Dr. Yumeno, my apologies. Please forgive my forgetfulness. At the time of my arrival, I was not quite in my right mind. [Everything he discussed while under nirvana's influence is weirdly dreamlike; sometimes difficult to remember. His first conversation with Daedalus didn't escape that.]

The rate of crime... has intensified, I take it? Every day the news is more and more worrisome.

[Polite and inquiring, since the safety of his household is important. (The Phantomhive manor is infested with spiders under his command, so he has seen and heard many things he probably shouldn't have. He wonders when the police will figure out what's really going on. It's an amusing diversion for him.)]

[video because he doesn't like being in the same room with Claude]

[hairdecs]

Young master.

And he won't be taken away. Not... not by anybody! I won't let him!

[video because Finny is a scaredy-cat!!]

[stabilimentum]

One's master should take precedent, yes.

You definitely have the enthusiasm, Mr. Finnian. [Claude likes that, by the way.]

[hairdecs]

Of course I do. I owe my life to him.

[stabilimentum]

And I owe mine to my master. You and I have common ground.