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Hehehe. Things we about to get interesting!
~First Person~
Dinner was rather unusual. Instead of sitting at a table, there was food and drinks on a table, and we were free to socialize and walk around. I eventually learned that the mans name is Arthur. Apparently, I am the lowest class here, either that or we are the same class and he walked in before me because his name starts with an A and mine an H. I didn't really care. At one point the guest of honor got pretty drunk and tried to make a move on the opera singer. She got so mad that she slapped him, and he threw his drink at her. Surprisingly, the Earl stepped in before it hit her. The director, however threw an expensive wine bottle at him. Sebastian caught it in mid-air and landed perfectly on a ladder and poured the dink on a tree of glasses.
How did he...? I got another head ache. Sebastian smiled and offered everyone to drink. It's not like that man needed anymore alcohol. I took at drink and drank a little. It got pretty late and Ciel went to bed and the other guests separated and did their own things. Some played chess in another room while some did other things. I didn't bother learning what the others were doing. The guest of honor passed out eventually after drinking about 10 more glasses. Sebastian carried him back to his room. I stayed in the same area and read a book I found. It was about demons surprisingly. I read a chapter about what they usually do and why they are even in this world. It said that demons craved the souls of the innocent and some people worship them, sacrificing others to summon them.
I got chills and put the book down. I stretched. I got up and started looking for Sebastian to tell me where my room was. Just as I entered I heard a terrifying scream. I ran upstairs and was Sebastian and a maid at the room trying to open a door. Sebastian kicked the door down and they both froze at the door. I ran up to them "What happ-?" I looked in the room and saw Siemens laying on a chair, blood covered his shirt. I gasped and backed up. Everyone started running up to us asking what was happened. The singer Irene screamed and almost fainted. Everyone stared at it. The flash of lightning lit up the dark room, the thunder crashed, shaking the windows and floor. Author was the first to move, checking the pulse. "H-he's dead."
~Third Person~
Almost everyone gasped, except Sebastian and the man in white names Charles Grey. Phelps fainted, falling on the floor with cold sweet pouring from his head. Boldroy came running into the room along with Finnian. "Is this man dead?" Fin asked warily. "Yes..." Author said. "It's awfully hot in here." Bard said whipping his brow. Sebastian looked at the fire place "Yes, it is. I heated the room up, before-hand... Maybe he was cold." Ciel walked in rubbing his eye. "What is all the racket about?" The house keeper followed him. "Young Master..." He walking a few feet from Siemens and looks up. "Lord Siemens...!" He mumbled wide-eyed. Ciel and Sebastian eyed each-other. Grimsby the director spoke up. "W-we shouldn't move anything until the Yard-" Boldroy interrupted "No. We should move it. Flesh rots faster in heat. We should move it to somewhere more cold, like the basement." Irene flinched "F-flesh...?!" She stuttered quietly.
"Finny, fetch a stretcher." Sebastian ordered. "Yes, sir!" He ran off. "I say, I don't think the Yard will be showing for a while." Lou pointed out and moved a curtain at a window. Seeing as there is quite a storm out?" Woodly gapsed "What?! You mean we can't leave?!" Lou turned around and gave his usual smile "Why does it matter? We were all planning on staying anyway." Hannah said something for the first time in a while "I do not think it is a good idea to leave, even if it is suitable to leave. The murderer will have a chance to escape." He turned to her "I'm not staying staying here when a murderer is on the loose?!" Lou's smile disappeared "Yes, there is a good chance the murderer is still on the loose." Hannah turned white and looked at Ciel. He did not look very concerned, but was certainly thinking.
"That means... The murderer is one of us!" Woodly said, everyone looking at him, some realizing it for the first time. Hannah's face grows slightly paler. "The door was locked, was it not? You had to break the door down?" Irene said to the maid. "Yes, now that you mention it." Irene hugged herself. "Someone must have broken in through the window then." Charles looked at the floor, "Would there not be footprints if that were so? I suppose our first theory was correct... Some one broke in through the door?"
"Unlikely." Sebastian says. "The keys are specially crafted. It would take a true craftsmen to copy them. Furthermore, they are kept in a secret place known only to me, under lock and key." Ciel looks up at everyone, thinking hard about things, "Yes, even I do not know the exact location." Lou grins slightly, "That can only mean one thing: this was a locked room murder." Grimsby, who obviously looks troubled looks at Ciel. "I refuse to stay here!"
Ciel yawned, "Someone has been murdered. No one is leaving. Besides, do you really want to try to leave in this weather? Now, if no one minds, I am going to bed." Author took out his notebook, "I suppose before everyone retires we should make note of your whereabouts." Hannah smiled and laughed, "Haha, I get it. 'take not'... It's a notebook..." She said jokingly. Everyone stared at her except Ciel who laughed a little. She looked down blushing from embarrassed.
Grimsby, Irene, Author, and Phelps claimed to be in the Billiards room when they heard the disturbance. Lou, Ran-Mou and Woodley were drinking in the lounge. They ran out of alcohol at one point and called on Sebastian to fetch some more, and the servants were cleaning together in the kitchen. Everyone turned to Hannah and Ciel. "I was reading..." Hannah said quietly. "Myself and Hannah are the only ones without an alibi, but us both do not have a reason to kill him." Hannah nods, "That's right." Lou smiles, "Oh? Your Fundom company has a branch in Germany, does it not? He could be causing you some trouble financially." Ciel sighs, "Are you suggesting that my company is in horrible debt?"
"It's not unrealistic." Finny looks up at everyone in tears. "Wait a minute! I don't understand most of this stuff but... Young Master would never-!" Ciel looked at him, "Finny. That's enough." He looked down. Charles looked at Hannah, "I don't know much about you but I do know you are 'fortune teller'?" She nods, "Yes, in a way." He nods, "I see. And you do not know anyone here?" She shakes her head, "No one except Ciel and his Butler, who paid me a visit a few days ago."
"And what can you predict, Freeman?" She hugged herself, "If people are in love, have a special connection with someone, and... If someone will die soon." Everyone turn their heads towards her.
~Hannah's POV~
'I hate being the center of attention! Stop staring at me!' I screamed in my mind. "So you can tell if anyone else will die here?" I nod. "Tell us." He says. Everyone looks at me. I gulp, "No disrespect, sir, but I don't want to." I look at everyone, despite what I said, and looked at their auras. I sigh and look down, knowing one will certainly die here. Some auras did not show. I was not trying hard, so that might be a reason. Sebastian's, Irene's, Woodley's and Ciels were not visible. I'm sure everyone will be fine... Except the one.
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