Part 20
Emissary au
The old nanny of the Braddock is one that is graced by Gloriana to have a healthy long life and Elisabeth Braddock couldn´t be happier as she sees the nanny as her real mother. Brian and Elisabeth both lost their parents in their tender age of 6 years old and the nanny Amy Macgil, a Scottish woman was in the charge in making sure Brian and Elisabeth get proper care and Elisabeth can´t thank enough for her wonderful nanny for all the years she dedicated to the poor orphans.
“Good morning, Amy” Elisabeth speaks with a bright attitude as her purple hair is tied up in the latest fashion and is wearing the best gall money can buy, and one thing can´t ever be forgotten, the money Elisabeth used to buy those dresses are entirely on her and not coming from her inheritance.
“There´s good my successful businesswoman. Cutting men throat still?” Amy asked amused as all Elisabeth has that winning smile who makes her so fearsome among men like Tony Stark and Richard Reeds. Show no mercy to your enemies and know how to pick your allies.
“As always nanny” Elisabeth promised but her dreamy look on her face indicates the woman is not thinking about her trading business anymore. Rather she´s thinking about the enigmatic Dr Darkholme and nanny can´t see the appeal this man has over her precious girl, but, if Elisabeth wants to be Mrs Darkholme.
“That smile here. Yes, that smile. I know all about it” Nanny puts her hands on her hips and Elisabeth is not hiding her true thoughts. The others servants bring the food and only Amy eats with the Braddocks(when they say they see her as a mother they really meant and Gloriana, in all her Outerworldy beauty and fairness, seems pleased by this feeling) and so far nothing seems to change this fact.
“Yes, nanny, I´m...I´m still enamoured with Dr Darkholme” Elisabeth confessed as if this is a crush and Amy has to chuckle, but, stops once realizing that Elisabeth, her precocious girl, is no longer a girl but a woman and this society can be harsher with an unmarried woman.
“I confess. I´d not see what the appeal on that sullen man is, no, don´t look at me like that, you know what I think of this possible union, yes, saying is a possible union is a kind thing to say to you. We all know he´s engaged and is not a man to take a mistress and you deserve much better” Amy states crossing her arms and peering at the purple woman who is not taken back by this confession.
“I know...what you feel about him, but, nanny, he´s a good man and...” Amy cut her off by suggestion what she´s seeing maybe is linked to lust than love and while is not out of the realms of possibilities Elisabeth Braddock refuses to lose.
“Very well, then, what you´ll do to gain his attention?” she asks tiredly giving up on change the other lady´s mind. Only Queen Gloriana could do that and so far the beauty itself seems to think such chase amusing to let continue.
“I´d have an ally of sorts. A courtesan named Amanda Sefton. And we´ll prove to Dr Darkholme how unfit Kitty Pryde, oh yes, that´s her real name, is to inherit the name Darkholme”
“I see, and if this Amanda tries to double-cross you? She wants his attention too?”
“Oh, she can try but I think no one will like to know about her incestuous thoughts and while she hides very well...one look at Queen Gloriana will reveal such thoughts and the Queen hates incest”
The nanny didn´t press the subject. She could have told how the Darkholmes are taking this engagement seriously and how they had met Kitty´s family, even if is not orthodoxical, and so far, nothing indicates that Dr Darkholme is the type of man to care about social etiquettes.