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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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I suppose... you're not wrong. There are very few people around who could try or would.

[Isn't that what good people do?] Just our age, I think, kept us waiting. And... however much I care about Lizzie, I'm not sure marrying her would be fair.

[Good people, schmood people. She's very good at risking her life for people. Keeping her boredom and curiosity at bay when it comes to protecting someone's privacy have middling success.] Oh? Why not fair?

[There are so many reasons it wouldn't be fair to her but a few aren't ones he's willing to voice. The more damning of the reasons, mostly.]

I'm not the same person as when we were growing up. I'm not sure I could love her as I should.

That's why it's hard when you're so young I think. You change so rapidly. [She's not really sure when or if that stops to be fair. She's not exactly a well-ripened person herself. But she was married very young once upon a time.] It's hard to know if you'll change in the same direction as the other person or not. Sometimes it works out. [And sometimes you get murdered in the middle of a battle by your husband. You know, differences.]

I'm... not sure whether to agree or not, really. Lizzie and I have been engaged since I was born. So we grew up together. At least, until I ended up in another world. She's more accustomed to Earl Phantomhive anymore than just Ciel.

[Part of him hopes so. He wants her to be happy.]

Are you Earl Phantomhive? [The fun of having a deep conversation when you barely know the person.]

I was.

[There are a few interpretations of that. And he won't clarify much.]

Behaving as an Earl though is rather different than anything I might do here or another world.

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