Comforting Darkness

Chapter 36: The Tutor, A Witch's Fate

The big day of Sieglinde meeting the Queen came... and passed with great success! After so much effort, endless hours of hard lessons from Sebastian, starvation and a lot of nervousness and anxiety, Sieglinde met the Queen, talked with her and managed to get her support along with guarantee of her own freedom.

The girl followed Ciel's advice on giving the Queen the mustard gas formula but never speak a word about SuLIN. She did not need a lot to get convinced, as the night before the meeting, Ciel and Sebastian guided her mind to draw a very vivid picture of what the massive production of the chemical would mean to the world. Therefore, Lady Sullivan placed herself at the Queen's disposal, with the sole purpose of medically helping the world, and that seemed to greatly please the so powerful elder woman.

For this chapter to close permanently, Ciel ordered Sebastian to make the briefcase with the SuLIN samples disappear once and for all. The demon did so by diving into the sea and leaving the case sink into the deepest abyss where no man could ever reach.

The following day was very relaxing and Ciel told Sebastian to produce one of his finest deserts at dinner, as a reward to young Sieglinde for her efforts and success. Sebastian agreed eagerly, since he knew that a sweet desert would also cheer his master, who had woken up pretty shaken by a nightmare he refused to talk about and had been gloomy all day.

Soon, they were all in the kitchen cooking and baking; Agni was in charge of the soup, Sebastian had just placed the meat in the oven and proceeded to help Selina with the vanilla cake they made, dressing it with a flimsy layer of chocolate, before placing some more decorations and then write 'Welcome to England' with the very fluid raspberry syrup Sebastian had prepared. Mey-Rin had been summoned from the manor to help in refreshing the dinnerware they used in celebrations and parties. The maid was absentmindedly polishing the silverware, while fangirling over how good butler and tutor looked together and how they were working in perfect harmony.

The couple was too focused on their task, trying to ignore Mey-Rin whispering to Agni - whom of course she had rushed to inform about their new status - when the quick clacking of heels, very familiar to Selina, was heard. And then, a cheerful voice Selina was utterly surprised to hear at the moment and Sebastian was quite annoyed but relieved at the same time.

"Hello everyone!!!! How have you been doing?" Miranda said as she suddenly appeared in the kitchen door.

"Hello, Miss..." Agni said with a discreet question in his voice, as he had not seen the woman before and was alarmed on how she entered the house.

His heavy voice seemed to surprise the red-haired intruder, who just then seemed to realise how few people were in the kitchen. She left a surprised sound as she brought her left hand shyly in front of her lips; she seemed to blush a little at seeing Agni. "Oh, I'm sorry. Where are the others?" She whispered.

"Miss Miranda. She is Selina's cousin that helped us when Selina and Sebastian went away for a week on young master's business." Mey-Rin was quick to inform Agni. "Miss Miranda, this is Agni, Prince Soma's butler!! The others stayed in the manor; I came to assist in the small celebration young master will have today for welcoming Lady Sullivan... Ah! You will meet her too, along with Wolfram, if you stay long." Mey-Rin was proud for making the introductions properly and informing Miranda about everything important.

Greetings between the Indian butler and the newcomer were about to be exchanged, when Selina barged into Miranda, grabbed her left hand and literally shoved it in a white glove, surprising her in a not so pleasant way.

No one seemed to have heard a faint "Eeek!!" in the background when Miranda appeared out of nowhere. No one saw the supernatural couple staring quite shocked and petrified at the angel, dressed in a light grey men's suit with slightly bell-bottom trousers, skipping vest and tie, the first two buttons of her shirt open and without gloves on her hands, brandishing permanently white nails and blue green contract seal at the back of her left hand for everyone to see. And of course, no one heard the low and stiff voice of the butler whispering to the tutor "Trousers, left pocket." guiding her to where she found the aforementioned gloves.