Comforting Darkness

Chapter 7: The Tutor, Going to School

The next few days were quite calm and fun in the Phantomhive manor, with Lizzie's Easter Egg Hunt - Sebastian wearing rabbit ears was Selina's highlight of the day, making her secretly giggle quite often - and then some peace and quiet.

Selina had the chance to meet more wonderful people like the so loud, always cheerful Prince Soma - very persistent on calling himself 'Ciel's brother' ignoring how it annoyed the said boy - and his loyal butler Agni. It was really difficult for Selina to picture that 'kind-hearted giant', as she called him due to his superhuman strength and height, as a rebellious criminal doomed to execution not long ago. Both Agni and Prince Soma welcomed her in the household very kindly and warmly, making her feel once again, a long forgotten feeling of belonging in a family.

As Selina was watching the two teenage boys and the two butlers interact she was certain that both boy and demon valued quite a lot the two humans, even if they pretended to be indifferent or even annoyed. She was just hoping that the seemingly light-minded Indian boy would forever stay by her master's side and the two butlers would become something like friends, as strange as it sounds for a demon. She herself thought that kind of people proved what she had been taught from a young age; humans are worth fighting for and not all are beasts sometimes worse than demons.

She also met Ciel's tailor, Nina Hopkins, and the Queen's two butlers, Charles Phipps and Charles Grey, also known as double Charles; she really did not like these two, Charles Grey especially, as he seemed too sneaky in an unpleasant way.

The tailor, however, was a very strange personality; she was a woman definitely belonging to the future, with very innovative ideas in women's clothing that really excited Selina and made her think Nina could be useful, if her mission proved lethal to the trousers she had brought with her. On the other hand, when she saw her groping poor, terrified Mey-Rin while praising her wonderful bust and then coming and doing the same to her and rambling about the clothes she could make for her, Selina got really annoyed. She could not stand that type of touching, especially without giving permission, from man or woman. In an effort to make Nina stop, Selina informed her that the last woman who did that ended up in a not so healthy state. That did not seem to bother the tailor, she was that excited with the well-built and slim figure of the new tutor that in the end a very irritated Sebastian stepped in and separated them.

"Pff!! Mr. Stiff..." Nina said and moved away.

"Thanks, again. She is terrifying. I felt harassed, just like with Druitt's sweet talk." Selina said to Sebastian.

"Pardon me for asking, but you said something that really confused me. You said that the last woman who touched you like that... Have you been touched many times like that... by a woman?" For some reason, the demon seemed really bothered by that prospect.

"Oh, well in my time things are not that strict concerning human's sexuality; so generally speaking it can easily happen but it's not something that bad, if both parties agree, of course. Anyway, the woman I was referring to... I did not quite agree, so she ended up very dead." She said in a very natural way.

Sebastian took notice of that but did not comment. "So, in short, people like Grell Sutcliff are not considered perverts?"

"By some people yes, but not by everyone, thankfully." Watching the butler's eyes open wide she explained further. "Let me clear this up. People sexually desiring others of the same sex in general is not considered perverted, just different, but desiring someone and then wanting to kill that person, like Grell does with you... yes, that is totally perverted, sick."

Sebastian thought some more and then lifted his shoulders and eyebrows disregarding the issue. "Well, that means that some demons will lose their power and influence in the future, if tempting people to indulge in such intercourses is not considered as a sin in humans' weak mind."