Overthinking like teens do

[sweetlies]

Who: Ciel Phantomhive and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Goldstone
When: Afternoon of June 1

[The blue-haired teen is in the kitchen of the Goldstone, a cup of tea steaming in front of him. His communicator is propped up so her can just relax and enjoy his tea. And a small plate of oddly shaped cookies.]

What do you all do when you arrive in a new world in the middle of a year? And yet you left at the end, just shy of your birthday?

[He nibbles at a cookie, sets it down, and takes a sip of tea.]

I arrived in Riverview in July but I left England just two weeks before my fourteenth birthday. So it was sensible to say I was fourteen. I was there a year, so... fifteen. It's been about six months here, would I almost be sixteen now?

[There's a soft sigh, toying with a cookie.] Interesting as all this is, it's a bother to think about it all. I'd be marrying in a year, if I were in England...

[He doesn't seem too concerned about that though and takes a deep breath, smiles, and gestures to the cookies.] There are biscuits here in the kitchen, if anyone on the Goldstone would like. I made too many.

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[video]

[nightroadsaint]

[In the video, Abel joins in with a cup of tea in hand and eating what looks like to be chocolate pudding with a small silver teaspoon. It's simply the time for afternoon tea and snacks.]

I don't know. I'm so old, I tend to be forgetful of my own birthday! When I remember it was the day, then I would buy myself a cake. I think any day should be a birthday, though I feel birthdays is a special occasion.

Oh dear, getting married at that age? Well, it seems your England is a bit... backward yet traditional, isn't? At your age, most of my peers would think about going to a college or university of their choice if they could pass the entrance exams.

Have you made biscuits? I wonder if you could save me some. I may be able to pick it up later.

[video]

[sweetlies]

[There might be the faintest of huffs at the suggestion that England, of all places! Could be backward. And then he lets it go to poke at a biscuit a bit.]

I was an Earl, it's necessary for me to marry and continue the Phantomhive line. And I did, briefly, attend Weston College but I didn't care for it.

[It was boring, he hated it. And the system and rules they had in place were ridiculous.]

I could set a plate aside for you, I don't mind.

[nightroadsaint]

That's understandable. I have worked with nobles in my sister's court and for them finding a suitable noble to marry is always a political fuss. My sister...she was an Empress in her nation and I helped with international affairs and peaceful diplomatic missions for the Vatican.

[Speaking of this, Abel realized he really missed his people. He had been in space for nearly three months now.]

English education is never fun. I remember my professors, if I could help it. Some are lenient and some are strict. I did attended a university in England to study theology and science before I was a priest. But you know, I consider my stay on the ship a fun holiday. At your age, education is such a chore, so it's important to have fun! What I'm saying is, you don't have to rush to get married because that's what expected of you.

[He considerably brightens at the offer.]

You're saving your biscuits for me? Really? Why thank you! I can't wait to try them!

[sweetlies]

I simply didn't care for the school and I've received private education since I was a child. I was already ahead of most of my peers, having taken over as head of my family. It was necessary to learn a great deal more than anyone else my age would have needed.

[There's a little shrug. And a faint smile.]

Why not? I certainly can't eat them all on my own and I don't know how many members of the crew would care for them. [Only one he knows for sure.]

[nightroadsaint]

[The nobles of England are something else. To Abel, Ciel came from England ancient past and for him, it's now called Albion.]

When I was your age, I studied in a private education too. It wasn't fun and the teachers are strict when I couldn't make the grade and I have to learn quickly to know everything more than anyone else. I don't have much of a childhood since I don't know my parents.

[He'll leave it at that since he was raised like a test subject and his education is military based educations and working in labs.]

Well, we're on different ships, so I believe you could send them via mail or package and the ship can transport your mail since I live on SS Caprine. Still, you have my thanks as I like to eat biscuits with tea.

[sweetlies]

Luckily, I'm a very quick study. I've never had trouble with learning what I needed to know. [Or things he wants to know, such as cooking. He'd taken to that very quickly in Riverview. Interest and pure, stubborn, will had gotten him what skill he had before the augments.]

You could always use those teleporters to visit the Goldstone. I know Undertaker and I do the same a lot of the time. Tea isn't the same without biscuits.