Chapter 1
“Girl! Take this bucket and head on over to the lady’s room.” Vinyl the handmaiden handed the girl the bucket full of water and an already-soaked mop, urging her to move.
“Yes, ma’am” the girl responded sheepishly. What happened in the lady’s quarters? Another
accident? She’s never been sent to the lady before. She wonders in her head what she's like.
Is she harsh? Kind? Or deceiving?
“Probably not kind...”
she thought to herself as she scrolled down the hallways of disaster stains of blood remaining on carpets to remind her of past mates' lives taken away from them.
She's never seen the lady before, all she has is this faint image of what she thinks is the lady, tall, evil. Not so pretty to look at.
She's heard about maidens going into her quarters to...” relive” her... She's heard about the lady's practices among women and never wanted to get involved in one.
“This must be the lady's room” A knock on the door alerted the woman on the other side.
“Come in...” A deep voice with a heavy accent spoke.
“What a pretty voice” Taking a deep breath in the girl hoped she could handle whatever was on the side of the door.
There was the lady. Way much taller than she thought…she was sitting on her bed reading a book, peacefully as if there wasn't a pool of blood next to her.
..
The lady remained focused on her book, sighing deeply as she felt the girl's eyes on her.
“Why don't you clean the pool then stare at me hm?” she hummed, flipping a page of the book.
A wave of realization hit the girl.
“Oh! Yes, my lady...” the girl said, trying to hide the fear with confidence. “The lady likes it when
they're scared.” she thought to herself.
She could see a smirk on the lady's face as she nervously walked closer to her bed..to her...
“I should have said no...”
was just one of the thoughts that swarmed her mind as she took each and every step closer to the lady.
Gently she got on her knees, desperately trying to blow her hair out of her face as she cleaned the wooden floor.
She heard the bed creak as the lady was getting up. Her pace intensified as she heard the sound of the lady getting down from her bed.
“Clean faster, clean faster,” she thought to herself. She could feel the wood on the floor rub against her knuckles as her pace increased.
A hand on her shoulder stopped her entirely from her task. Shakily she turned around to see the lady right behind her.
“You’ll hurt yourself if you do that.”.
The girl looked at her closer. She was pretty. She had the same eyes as her daughters. Her pale skin reminded her of snow, and wrinkles on her face from old age also stood out to her.
“Your eyes are going to burst out of your head if you don't stop,” she whispered.
The girl quickly nodded her head holding her breath.
The lady clasped her hands together looking at the girl with confusion.
“Who are you? I've never seen you before…” the lady said confusion and suspicion lingered in her voice.
“My name is L-lei..my lady.” the girl said looking down at her bruised knuckles.
The Lady smiled.
“Well...Lei, it seems like you’ve already finished your task…” the lady said, laughing a bit as she thought of how scared the girl was.
“Up,” she commanded, Lei stood up, knees bruised and shaking from the pain
“You may go. Thank you for your work..maiden..”
she mumbled. Lei nodded quickly running out of the room hoping that the bucket water wouldn't spill...
Hoping to God that she wouldn't run into one of the sisters.
Thankfully she didn't...