**Back to the Present**
“Let out of here! Please! Open the door!” I scread loudly as I banged on the closed door with both of my fists.
If no one is out there, then I’m going to scream until soone turns up. I need to find out where I am and why I was brought here. They can’t just keep locked up in here, right?
I was scared and to get over that fear, all I could think of was yelling and banging on the door. If I didn’t do this, maybe I would have an emotional breakdown.
“Why are you shouting in the middle of the night? Shut up and go to sleep. You’re annoying all of us!” a woman yelled back at .
There’s soone out there on the other side of this door. I felt more relieved more than anything that I wasn’t the only one here in this place. According to what the woman just said, there should be many people here.
“Please let out. Can you please unlock the door?” I said loudly to make sure that she could hear through the closed door.
“Don’t you think you’re the louder one, Claudia?” another woman said teasingly.
“Hush everyone, Mada Cassandra is here...” another woman voice said with warning.
Mada Cassandra?
“Step aside. It’s late and I have no idea why you are not yet in your rooms...” a stern and authoritative voice said, and I assud that it was the voice of Mada Cassandra.
I stood in front of my door as I heard clinking sounds of tal hitting against tal. Suddenly, the handle of the door started to turn at the sa ti that I heard sounds of the lock being unlocked on the other side. When the door slowly opened, I ca face to face with a woman dressed in a long sleeve black dress. Her grey hair was tied back into a neat bun on the top of her head and her expression told that she wasn’t here to play.
The woman who looked to be in her fifties stood proudly in front of with a tray of food in her hands. So, this is Mada Cassandra.
“I see that you’ve regained consciousness. I’ve brought you your dinner...” the mada stated.
“Umm...where am I?” I asked in a small voice.
Instead of replying to my question, Mada Cassandra walked past and into the room before placing the tray onto the table.
“The maids’ quarters as part of the royal palace in the royal castle of the Kingdom of Lacovia,” Mada Cassandra replied coldly.
The Kingdom of Locovia.
I’ve heard of the Kingdom of Locovia before from my studies. However, I didn’t know much about this Kingdom apart from the fact that it is an extrely wealthy kingdom located on an isolated island with its own traditions.
“Is this so kind of mistake? I an, why am I here?” I asked desperately.
A sickening feeling boiled up in my stomach and my chest started to feel tight. Panic and fear crept up on and threatened to swallow whole.
“Did the anesthesia rob you of your mories or are you simply just clueless? You were sold, my dear girl, and the prince of this castle was the one who bought you,” the woman replied emotionlessly.
Events from the auction ca back to so vividly that it made feel dizzy and sick. So, all of that wasn’t just so nightmare. It really happened?
“I need to get back to the orphanage!” I cried as I felt tears sting the back of my eyes.
“No, you don’t. Don’t you get it by now? They sold you. They decided to sell you in exchange for money, and that is why you are here now. This is also why there is nowhere and no one for you to return to. This place, this castle, is your new ho now,” the old woman said as she implored with her eyes for to understand.
“No...it can’t be...” I murmured in pure disbelief.
“The sooner that you accept the facts, the better it will be for you. Work starts at 6AM sharp tomorrow morning. Your uniform is in that closet over there. Get dressed and line up with the other girls at 6AM sharp tomorrow morning. Is that clear?” Mada Cassandra commanded before raising a brow at .
Work starts tomorrow...
“...Yes,” I mumbled although I was still very much confused.
“Good girl. You should go to sleep. I brought you so dinner in case you are hungry. It seems you haven’t eaten anything since you arrived here. Don’t worry too much for now. Everything will be clearer when the sun rises,” the woman said and for the first ti since we t, she smiled a little at .
“Ok...” I murmured softly.
Everything was far from being ‘ok’ but I just didn’t know what else to say. Everything will beco clearer when morning arrives according to what she just said.
“This is the key to your room. Be sure to lock the door when you are in here at all tis. Although your door is unlocked now, I strongly advise you not to try running away. If you’re caught, and you will be even before you make it through the front door of this building, you will be tortured in ways that you can’t even imagine...and then killed...” she advised before smiling at .
I gulped in terror as her words sank in. There is no escaping from this, huh?
It was a challenge, but I managed to move my head enough to nod slightly at her words. She pressed her lips in a thin line and nodded once at .
“As a maid, the command of your master is absolute. You must follow your master’s command to the letter without question. Please keep that in mind,” the Mada said sternly.
Without another word, Mada Cassandra left the room and closed the door firmly behind her. Hungry and exhausted, I ended up eating all the food that she brought for . It tasted more than decent compared to the food that we had at the orphanage. For the first ti in a long ti, I got to taste fresh fruits. Perhaps life here won’t be so bad, after all. At least, I now had a job...whatever it was...
When I laid back down onto the bed, my eyelids imdiately felt heavy, and it didn’t take long for sleep to take over . That night, I slept without dreams for the first ti in a very long ti.
--To be continued...
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