In all endeavours, a paradise lost, spread out between a myriad of thoughts -- whether or not this might have been the demon he'd known, crawled out of perdition, while Ciel hung on by a single silver thread. The simple question comes, though it repeats in the mind, like a flurry of crows screaming in the autumn light. w̷h̷y̷? "Yᴏᴜ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ᴡᴇʟʟ." the young demon says instead. He is no sniveling coward -- he'd long since shed humanity, emerging as a monster in the dark.
𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑙𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝘩𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝘩𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠, && 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑁𝑂𝑇 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝘩𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝘩𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑇𝘩𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠… 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒- 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝘩𝑖𝑚, 𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎 𝘩𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝘩𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝘩𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠. 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠, 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝘩𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑒, && 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝘩𝑜𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠 𝘩𝑒 𝘩𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝘩𝑖𝑚.
❛ 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞? ❜ 𝑇𝘩𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑡 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑢𝑡, 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟.














