"Mien"

Elegant heels clack evenly across cobblestone as a young teen makes her way through the crowd. As she approaches, smartly dressed man with a large mustache steps up to meet her, a scowl plain on his face.

"Lady Phantomhive," he greets stiffly as he directs her into the cordoned off townhouse to the scene of the crime.

"Commissioner Randall," she responds easily, "What information do you have?"

The man sighs and launches into a description of the deceased's circumstances.

"I see..." the blonde girl murmurs as she rakes her eyes over the bloody exhibition. Something about the scene strikes a note, and turning to the desk by the wall she rifles through its contents until she comes across a familiar slip of paper. Its presence is just the link she needed; although not a solution, it provides her with a first step. It will be no trouble at all to obtain a ticket to the opera house, and from there Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford-Phantomhive is confident that everything will fall into place. But if not, the Queen's Watchdog will definitely find her answers another way.

A/N: Thus begins my Kuroshitsuji AU series. In this, Lizzy is obviously the Queen's Watchdog, because Ciel...well, Ciel never came back. But the royal family needs its evil noblemen, and Lizzy is of the bloodline.

"Mien" refers to demeanor or appearance.