Prince Soma was pouting.

"Mon prince, why do you frown so?" Basha sighed, collecting the items she had been juggling for the young prince's amusement.

Soma pushed his bottom lip out further and rested his head on the dining room table. "Ciel went on a cruise with his fiancé and didn't invite me..."

Basha's blue eyes widened at that, then she sighed and slumped down next to the prince, her own head falling to the table's surface. "I take it Monsieur Sebastian went with him too?"

The prince nodded and both of them let out dejected sighs.

I had a whole day planned out to play with Ciel... The prince pouted in his head.

I had a whole trap laid out to destroy Sebastian... Basha sighed to herself.

Agni rolled his eyes at the pair as he picked up his prince's finished breakfast dishes.

"Why don't we go out to town today instead? It's such a lovely day outside, it would be a shame to waste it cooped up in here." The Indian butler suggested.

Soma brightened up almost instantly and jumped up to go get ready with an excited smile wide on his face.

Basha sat up slower, a small smirk upon her lips as she watched Agni clean up from breakfast. "That was very good thinking." She hummed, beginning to stand.

Agni just chuckled and shook his head. "There is a play that has recently been put out that our prince wishes to see. Today seemed to be as good a day as any to see it."

Basha smiled in excitement. "A play? Oh, it's been ages since I've last seen a play! I must get ready!"

Agni laughed at the magician's obvious excitement as she vanished in a puff of white smoke.

Reappearing in her room Basha ignored Abraham and instantly began searching through her bags for that one gorgeous dress that she owned.

As she searched she threw the styled white wig off of her scalp and pointed to her golem.

"Abraham mon cher, find me that blonde wig I hardly use s'il vous plaît."

The golem did as he was told as Basha pulled out her dress with a triumphant grin.

Where are we going?

The magician paused at Abraham's question. "Monsieur Agni, mon prince, and I will be going into town to see a play today."

And what of the predator?

"Monsieur Revenant is currently on a cruise."

And what of me?

Basha let out a sigh as she shimmied out of her costume. "You are to remain here and guard the house."

An alarmed look crossed Abraham's clay features.

But-

Basha nearly groaned in annoyance. "I will be fine, Abraham. Monsieur Agni will be there, and as he says, he was blessed by his goddess Kali. We shall be fine."

As she talked the woman had slipped herself into the dress and a pair of shoes to go with it, as well as wiped down her preforming makeup to make it look more casual.

As she grabbed a fan, she looked back pointedly at Abraham, then adjusted her wig and left the room to join with the two males that awaited her in the foyer.

Abraham stared after his creator with nearly worried eyes.

But what of me? He wanted to ask, but Basha was already gone.

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Agni's eyes widened at the young blonde woman that gracefully, yet hurriedly made her way down the stairs in a gorgeous off-the-shoulders powder-pink French evening gown. He couldn't help the flush that began to creep up his neck at the sight of her.

"Are we ready to go?" Basha questioned, smiling at the two Indian men who were dressed to the nines as well.

"You changed your hair color!" Prince Soma gasped in amazement. "Did you use your magic?"

Basha simply chuckled and shook her head. "It is just another wig, mon prince, though I can change the color if you would like."

Reaching up, the magician touched the styled blonde strands. Her fingertips began to glow faintly and the two men watched in awe as the wig's color shifted from blonde to every color in the rainbow before settling back to its original sandy tone.

Basha smiled softly pulling out a handkerchief from the folds of her gown and coughing a few drops of blood into it. "I prefer this." She rasped. "It was my natural color once."

As the prince began to gush, Agni nodded solemnly and held out his elbow for the deathly pale woman to hold onto. He had noticed the blood she had tried to hide from them.

Basha took Agni's arm gratefully and the two servants steadily followed their excited young prince to the carriage.

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Abraham stood staring up beneath the shining chandelier in the center of the foyer.

He was alone for the first time in a long while.

The hanging crystals bounced prisms of light around the room, casting shadows that laughed at him and danced in and out of his stony vision.

Why did they dance when they knew he could not?

Why did they laugh at his expense?

It was so shiny.

The doors were banging and the windows rattled with the force of shadowed creatures trying to push their way in. The wind outside howled about the house with their anger.

The shadows continued to laugh.

How can a chandelier be so shiny?

It was always like this when the golem was alone.

Without Basha's shining aura to protect the place, malicious spirits flocked to wherever Abraham was in droves with attempts to break down the stone prison that housed his soul.

If he could only grab one of those crystals...

But the magician was smart. She had placed protective charms and hamsas on every possible entry point to the home, sealing it away from evil.

But that didn't stop the shadows from reaching him.

Abraham raised up a hand, but could not seem to reach the lowest hanging crystal.

Something that beautiful and shiny must be kept safe.

He had always been like this. For as far back as his stone mind could remember he had been like this.

He would find the shiniest object he could and stay with it until Basha returned.

But it was the shining magician that kept him safe. She kept him going. Until the day they both passed, he would protect her, and she him.

He knew nothing of sisters or brothers, as his master had told the non-predator, he just knew he had to be by her side.

The shadows surrounded him now, never touching him, but shrieking their laughter in his ears as he reached for the chandelier.

It was like a star... He had always wanted a star...

The magician would return and the shadows would go away. They always did.

They had to.

But, for now... it was a waiting game.