[There is so much to comment on that he doesn't know where in the hell to start. What's worse, he isn't face to face and has to waste time trying to type on a blasted slick piece of glass.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org TELL ME ONE THING AT A TIME SEBASTIAN
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT CREATURE IN A MOMENT
[Caps lock. Cruise control. Etc. It takes him a minute to get it off. Even as a Victorian, he feels slightly embarrassed for yelling unnecessarily over the Internet. Is that considered uncouth? Perhaps it is more embarrassment at not understanding these contraptions.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org You met a demon that knew us in that city?
[Thirst and uncomfortable is no excuse, Sebastian!]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org No.
[A long time passes. Perhaps he is considering this information carefully.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org If they aren't here now, then it doesn't matter. maybe he died. [Trancy, that is.] Tell me if you happen to find them again. What were they doing there?
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org I care only about what happens to you and me.
[AND DON'T TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY EITHER, SEBASTIAN.
Two minutes later:]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org I am going to talk to my unit leader about the murders and look at the autopsy reports. You know how to reach me if you find out anything else of importance.
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Understood. I shall look into it when things are quieter.
FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
I do, yes. But I do not believe that it is likely, and I would not recommend sharing the idea unless I was more certain.
FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
It would be possible for me, technically speaking, and I ran into another demon when we were on Selena. I did not know him, but he knew us.
FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
However, it would be different. I have been attempting to seek out the creature, if only to pinpoint it, but it is evasive. Even for me.
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FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
TELL ME ONE THING AT A TIME SEBASTIAN
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT CREATURE IN A MOMENT
[Caps lock. Cruise control. Etc. It takes him a minute to get it off. Even as a Victorian, he feels slightly embarrassed for yelling unnecessarily over the Internet. Is that considered uncouth? Perhaps it is more embarrassment at not understanding these contraptions.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
You met a demon that knew us in that city?
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
Is he here now?
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FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
No. It was the first thing I checked for, and why I did not mention it.
[ because he was hella thirsty and it was uncomfortable... ]
FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
He was odd, to say the least. I believe he was contracted to a young nobleman I met. Do you know anything of Earl Alois Trancy?
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FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
No.
[A long time passes. Perhaps he is considering this information carefully.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
If they aren't here now, then it doesn't matter. maybe he died. [Trancy, that is.] Tell me if you happen to find them again. What were they doing there?
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Considering that sphere, it is quite possible. I will alert you to their presence should they reappear.
FROM: michaelis.sebastian@cdc.org
I assumed the same as us, that they were to be contracted, but that may not have been the case. The conversations were not informative.
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FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
Whatever the case, if they aren't here, then they were useless.
[He is such a nice person.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
But that means the creature wasn't the demon. Is it an animal?
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That seems most likely, yet this is also where my knowledge more or less ends. My familiarity is with the human realm of Earth, of course.
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It wasn't killing for food. The bodies were whole and had bled out.
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
Don't let it kill anyone else.
[NOT THAT HE CARES OR ANYTHING.]
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How kind of you, young master. Is that borne from generosity, or simply wishing to perform your new duty?
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It would cause too much trouble and chaos to have another body, and it would impede investigations.
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Of course. I was worried that you cared for a moment.
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I care only about what happens to you and me.
[AND DON'T TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY EITHER, SEBASTIAN.
Two minutes later:]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
I am going to talk to my unit leader about the murders and look at the autopsy reports. You know how to reach me if you find out anything else of importance.
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And the same to you, young master. I should have the information we discussed prepared within 24 hours, incidentally.