Thoughts on post-soul-monching. Angst ahead.
After the mysterious second December 14th fire that swallowed the earl and his butler without a trace, the Phantomhive manor is never rebuilt.
With the end of the Phantomhive line, Elizabeth Midford becomes the Queen's Watchdog.
She vows never to love another man.
A friendship with Joanne Harcourt reaches a private understanding, a wedding ring is placed onto a gloved finger, and Elizabeth and Joanne Midford adopt a beautiful baby boy and name him Ciel.
The servants are given remarkably generous pensions. Elizabeth offered to take them all on, but they refused. The last anyone saw of the trio were the eddies in the wake of a ship leaving from England.
Edward doesn't marry, remaining a Knight of the Realm and becoming a known patron of the arts, especially music. Sieglinde goes to medical school. Soma moves in part-time with Sieglinde and Wolf; no one knows what he does with the rest of his time, and though he comes back with dark circles beneath steely eyes and the faint smell of something hovering over him, Wolf knows enough not to ask.
Darkness, even when lifted, begets darkness of a different sort.
