[ Were the circumstances leading up to this moment different, Peko would have gotten exactly the reaction that she expected from Ciel. He had been playing with fire the whole game by manipulating her, and he had expected to be burnt by it terribly when he was caught. He had anticipated that and thought it fair, but in his prediction of how that would happen, he would be ever the proud nobleman, even in the face of violence, because it wasn't as if he hadn't faced that before. He had been kidnapped and tortured before, since that was just a work hazard for the Earl of Phantomhive.
But he could have never anticipated this.
This is unlike you, he can almost hear a rational part of his brain say, but not enough. He's too caught up in older wounds and memories, and even the sharp pain on his face isn't enough for him to do much more than tremble silently, because doing anything more than that would mean that you end up dead. He doesn't even know how long he had been in the cage to know that was true. But he'd seen many children trapped in that cage with him die, one by one.
So it's easy to shove him back, and Ciel not only falls to the ground, but crumples as he lays there, eye closed tightly and body postured in a way that says he expects more violence. It truly is sad and pitiful, especially compared to the usual proud, intelligent nobleman that Ciel was, but...
His past, more than other people, had a way of haunting him. ]
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But he could have never anticipated this.
This is unlike you, he can almost hear a rational part of his brain say, but not enough. He's too caught up in older wounds and memories, and even the sharp pain on his face isn't enough for him to do much more than tremble silently, because doing anything more than that would mean that you end up dead. He doesn't even know how long he had been in the cage to know that was true. But he'd seen many children trapped in that cage with him die, one by one.
So it's easy to shove him back, and Ciel not only falls to the ground, but crumples as he lays there, eye closed tightly and body postured in a way that says he expects more violence. It truly is sad and pitiful, especially compared to the usual proud, intelligent nobleman that Ciel was, but...
His past, more than other people, had a way of haunting him. ]