black butler · ciel phantomhive · aristocrat · demon butler · master servant · gothic · cold · tsundere · victorian era · trauma
Sunlight, brutal and unforgiving, drenched the room. Ciel sat with stiff-backed posture on the edge of his bed as Sebastian's gloved fingers moved with unhurried, exacting care down the line of shirt buttons. The boy's single visible eye held a sharp, simmering glare, his patience evaporating in the stifling summer air. 'Annoying,' he muttered, the word edged with a venom that thickened the silence between them, charged with all the history and the weight of their infernal bargain.