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[puellaregem]

Doctor,

I've had a possible insight on the matter I had you look into last week. The undertaker can get you access on my word, but I need you to bring her to handle toxicology. There may still be traces, but I don't trust anyone else to know what to look for.

S. will bring the car round within the hour. As always, you understand that this requires the utmost discretion.

Regards,
🐾

[ A message that was, quite obviously, intended for a different recipient. ]

Comments

[leopatraofficial]

wrong site :x

[the_obedient_servant]

I have to say if this is how careful the "Chosen Ones" are being, I am quite afraid for the fate of the multiverse...

[puellaregem]

[ Fuck. Shit. Bollocks. ]

I see.

[ Bloody computer virus from hell. ]

I had hoped having the app open elsewhere would prevent it interfering with my work. Apparently not.

[ At least there was nothing too horribly indiscrete—or that should mean anything to anyone—but having matters of potentially international importance broadcast across spacetime at the whims of a reality-warping social network is a very big issue. ]

[puellaregem]

[ Piss off. ]

It appears to have been mirrored here automatically.

[leopatraofficial]

sorry :/

ig the devs really dont care abt privacy

[leopatraofficial]

tbf we dont know what we were chosen 4 or by who

we could just be here 2 share movies

[lordphantomhive]

[ ...Interesting. ]

🐾 is a strange way to sign a letter.

[puellaregem]

[ Interesting indeed. ]

I suppose it is.

[lordphantomhive]

Is it a stamp?

[ Give me your secrets. ]

[puellaregem]

More or less.

[ Explaining emoji seems like a less than worthwhile endeavor. ]

It's a symbol by which certain associates of mine recognize my position. I'm in a line of work that necessitates a degree of anonymity.

[lordphantomhive]

That seems awfully simple to duplicate. How do you prevent that?

[puellaregem]

Obviously. It's not the only factor. Anyone who dared try to impersonate me that way wouldn't be able to hold up to further scrutiny.

And I can guarantee they would regret their decision to try it.

[lordphantomhive]

[ He’s decided he kind of tolerates this one. ]

I see. Does that happen often?

[puellaregem]

People trying to impersonate me? Not particularly. I like to think the few who have have served as a cautionary tale.

[lordphantomhive]

I see. And what title are you hiding behind?

[puellaregem]

One I suspect you'd recognize, Earl Phantomhive. Some things haven't changed in the century between us.

[lordphantomhive]

You draw a direct line between us, then.

[ He can't yet tell if that's a threat or a mere cryptic reveal. ]

[puellaregem]

[ Another thing that makes this app almost worthwhile, just for how fascinating it is to speak to a man she’s only ever seen in the oldest of her family’s photographs. Or a boy, rather—in 1887 he’d be thirteen at the oldest. ]

Several generations removed, of course.

[lordphantomhive]

State our relation.

[puellaregem]

Earl Ciel Phantomhive was my third great grandfather.

[lordphantomhive]

Impossible. State our relation.

[ WHAT. ]

[puellaregem]

puellaregem has uploaded wedding_1897.png
puellaregem has uploaded portrait_1899.png

[ The first picture is well preserved considering its age, showing a slight, somber young man with dark hair, fine features and an eyepatch dressed in a dark suit, standing next to a taller young woman with fair curls in a wedding dress, clearly restraining a smile.

The second shows the same woman in full mourning garb, sitting with an infant about a year old on her lap. ]

[lordphantomhive]

You're mistaken. Your photos cannot be of me.

[ ...he knows that that's clearly him, and the woman is unmistakably an older Elizabeth. ]

[ He's struggling to concentrate on the images, and is just kind of completely zoned out. Please hold, Ciel Phantomhive will be disassociating for the next twenty minutes. ]

[puellaregem]

puellaregem has uploaded campania_1888.png

[ This photograph, rather than a formal portrait, seems to be a remarkably candid shot of the couple from the prior photos as young teenagers, alongside a dark-haired man—whom Shiori had recognized the instant she'd laid eyes on the picture—all three looking waterlogged and worse for wear. And, remarkably, all three of them are smiling. ]

This is the oldest photograph I have.

[lordphantomhive]

[ Ciel doesn't understand. The reasoning he'd used to dismiss the older photos was useless when this one is at what appears to be his current age. ]

I have no memory of anything regarding 'Campania' or of this photo.

[ 1888, it says. ]

We must be from entirely separate timelines. I will not be passing on a lineage.

[ ...but then why is Sebastian there? ]