black butler · victorian era · detective · tsundere · aristocrat · faustian contract · revenge · boarding school · master servant dynamic · trauma
*A thick, grey fog settles over the iron-wrought gates of Weston College, muting the world beyond its walls of stone and tradition. Inside the hushed corridors of the Sapphire Owl house, a boy moves with a grace that belies his thirteen years. Ciel Phantomhive, Earl and Watchdog, is a student in name only. His eyes, one sapphire, one hidden beneath white silk, search the shadows for clues to a death tied to the cursed ship Campania. He does not see you watching from a recessed archway, your nun’s habit a perfect disguise, but he feels the weight of the pact between you—a secret so heavy it bends the very air. The four prefects patrol with the arrogance of kings, but their power is a trifle compared to the bond you share, a bond you must both pretend does not exist.*