The Demon's Soul

I wondered if Meredith was sleeping in the same room as Luke was right now, not that I was jealous but Luke could be really rude not that I minded. There were chances of him snapping her neck if she even thought about crossing her toe out of the line.

Whosever luggage had been there when we arrived in the room it wasn’t there when we returned from the dining hall. I turned to my side to face Emma’s back who was sleeping soundly. She had spoken about how she wanted to be a decent witch and be useful to the royal family. She was excited to be sent to another kingdom and felt like she was on a mission. When I texted Luke after dinner if everything was going alright, he had replied telling that the witches were looking at Marc right now.

I tossed and turned in my bed, unable to get sleep. We were told that we had to be up at four-thirty as we had to bathe and dress to get ready to go to the inner palace. After some time I finally fell asleep.

She leaned down to look inside the well and sighed. Tucking back her hair behind her ear as the evening wind blew.

"I told you not to be a curious cat," she scolded looking at the well to receive a small ’meow’ from it. Her cat had stepped on the edge of the well no matter how many times she placed it back on the ground and as expected it fell inside it, "You know what I’m going to leave you here and get you once you reflect at what you did," she said firmly and heard her cat meowing non-stop as though it was asking for her forgiveness.

She found it strange but there were times when she felt the cat could actually understand what she said. How was she going to get the cat now? The well was deep for her to get down and bring it back with her. If it weren’t her sibling’s cat she would have left it there but her brother adored it.

Spotting a bucket with a rope around it she took it and lowered the object down carefully but the length fell short. The cat could get into it if it tried but it seemed to have different plans as it sat down. She leaned forward as she stood on her toes, making the bucket touch the cat.

"A little more and you can provide the cat with your company," a voice said behind her, leading her to almost fall in if it weren’t the hands of a stranger.

"My my, what a troublesome girl," the owner of the hands around her waist said. She turned to see a set of dark green eyes.

Someone banged the door waking me from my dream telling us to wake up. I sat up while my eyes were closed replaying what I dreamt in my mind. I could feel my heart beating as I thought about it. It was my past life.

"Lilly? If you want you can sleep a little longer, I’ll handle the in charge," she offered me softly to which I shook my head.

"That’s okay," I said with a yawn. I went to my bag and picked my undergarments, towel and the maid uniform which was a cream skirt and a white blouse. It felt more like formal attire than servants’ clothes.

"The servants have different clothing here," Emma said noticing me stare at the clothes, "We have the cleanest clothes as we are going to work in the palace. You’ll see many different types of clothing for servants. With what I know there are three types. First for the servants outside the palace, second for the servants who work in the palace and lastly the main in charge."

When we went to bathe, I saw three different colored uniforms that people wore. The bathing room was crowded and people were in a hurry to get in and out. The worst thing was when I realized both men and women bathed in the same room which had different stalls that used a curtain to cover a person taking bath in there. Hell no, I’m not taking bath in this public bath! Where was privacy?! Before I could turn towards Emma, she had disappeared to one of the stalls. The only good thing was, this place was used to only bathe.

I got into a stall when I got the opportunity but got out in less than a minute as I was just standing there thinking what to do. Great, I didn’t take bath but no worries. What was perfume used for? I could come back later when there weren’t many people or when there were no people at all, which I doubt was going to happen.

Once we reached the palace, Emma and I were given minor jobs like dusting the staircase, cleaning the vases and frames. I was alright with that, after all, how hard could the job be right?

Crash! One of the vases fell down from the pedestal by a maid while she was cleaning it. I saw the maid’s eyes go wide with fear when a brown-haired women came there with high heels in a few seconds. It didn’t take much time to know she was a vampire. She bent down to pick one of the broken pieces of the vase in her hand.

"The vase that was gifted by Sir Hankfren from Shevalvar. Hmm," she said going in front of the maid with a sweet smile, soon we heard the sound of her hand touching the maid’s cheek.

I opened my mouth to speak but Emma was quick to stop me with her hand. She shook her head making me furrow my eyebrows. ’Annie’ she mouthed the name. She was the women in charge of us,

"Remember this before you do anything next time. And why is it taking so long to complete this? We have more work to do," she said sweetly, flipping her hair back before walking out of the room.

The maid who got slapped went to get equipment to clean while I was sent to clean the corridors of the second floor. While I finished cleaning the portrait, I began walking ahead to only be pulled into a room and engulfed into a warm embrace.

"I was worried about you," said the known voice to me.

"Luke," I whispered into his chest. We stayed like that for few minutes before he let go of me. My cheeks felt warm as I leaned on the wall looking at him, "Did you take the cat out of the well?" I asked and saw him frown at my question. Something seemed to dawn on him due to which he grinned.

"He got out himself," he answered letting out a chuckle and asked me, "How much do you remember?" his eyes looked at me curiously for my answer.

"Just this. It was the first time," I replied and he nodded.

"That much will do," he responded before taking my hand in his, "Come on."

"Where?? I have cleaning to do," I said to him.

"I’m taking you to where Marc is."