[video | backdated to the 14th | un: undertaker]

[somakemelaugh]

[Enjoy this face filling your screen at some point in the evening. One hand appears cupped around one edge of the view, as if he had been trying to hide the fact that he's recording this, which is likely not far from the truth seeing as how he's keeping his voice low.]

Wish I had more time for this, but for those of you friendly to the Earl Ciel Phantomhive, well. Today is a very special day for him. Try to make it pleasant, if you feel so inclined.

[There's a grin from him, then a voice behind him and the feed is quickly cut.]

Now, your Patroclus here was only mostly dead

[aristosmyrmidon]

[Patroclus stares at the camera intensely for a moment, checking to see if the device is working. When he realizes it must be, he leans back. And takes a breath He’s gone over what to say many times over.]

Ah, I am Patroclus. I have only recently arrived.

[Not as confident as he hoped to sound but not as bad as he feared.]

I do not know if any of you are from my world, but I understand that I am from a time in the past for many of you. Have any of you heard of Troy? I would like to know if the Greeks conquered it and--

[He braces himself. This isn’t a question he wants to ask. He knows what the general answer will be-- the prophecy always foretold Achilles’s death. But he needs to know how it happened and if his fame was worth the price.]

If you have heard of Achilles, what became of him?