On getting to the maid quarters, Aurora quickly hides the face mask from her sister, Princess Nneka. She went inside the bathroom to take her bath since she used to bathe earlier than the other maids, and after washing her body thoroughly, she felt so cold that she continued sneezing repeatedly, her sneeze attracted Shastina to go into the bathroom.
“Are you okay? It seems you have a cold,” Shastina let out.
“No, just that my body hasn’t got used to cold water” Aurora replied, and she removed the undressed clothes that she kept in a hole in the bathroom window and wore.
“Okay, but where did you go last night? Because I don’t see you in this room” Shastina asked her, looking intently at her.
“And why must I tell you?, from what I knew, you want me to die, don’t forget you made me this way” Aurora snapped at her.
“Just be careful, because you are playing with fire. Don’t allow your emotion to overrule your choices” Shastina said and walked away.
Aurora looked at her with a frown face, she wondered what she meant by the sentences, sometimes she showed her care and why occasionally, she put her in danger. Which made it hard for Aurora to understand her intentions.
She shook her head and walked back into the maid’s room, the maid was rushing into the bathroom at the same time, leading to quarrels and arguments among them Aurora wondered why they always argued about the person that will enter the bathroom first, she thought they could have woken up early instead of rushing.
She dressed up, changed into another dress, and packed her hair nicely, although she is a slave now, still the royalty screamed at her dress.
Looking elegant and classy in everything she wore, she brought out a little piece of the mirror she hid in her bag, and looked at herself in the mirror, she smiled seeing how beautiful she still looked.
“Soon, you will go back to being the beautiful and classy first Princess of the Uruk community” she mumbled under her breath.
“Won’t you go and sweep, before the concubines and the king wake up?” one of the maids brought Aurora out of her reverie.
Instantly she rushed out of the maid’s quarters to go and sweep the palace, she was the only maid in charge of sweeping the whole palace, on her way she branches to Morena’s chamber, she wanted to tell her about last night, she wanted to avoid hiding it from Morena, since she was her savior, if not for her, she would still be in the dungeon.
“What are you doing here? Early in the morning, instead of going to your duty position?” Morena asked, forcing herself to get up from the bed.
“I’m on my way, I want to inform you that the king called for me last night, though he didn’t know I was the one, Evans convinced him to allow me to be using a face mask in his presence and he accepted” Aurora explained in an exciting mood.
Looking at her face, Morena sensed that Aurora is still in love with the king since she knew about it.
“Okay, but be careful and don’t get carried away, the king doesn’t forgive easily, the only way he can forgive you is for you to prove your innocence concerning his father’s death,” Morena said, she wanted her to stop whatever feelings she might be having towards Malik.
Knowing how the woman in the palace hurt one another, Morena didn’t want her to get involved. Moreover, she didn’t stand a chance that the king would like her.
“Okay, ma” am, I’m off to my duty,” she said and walked away from the room.
Seeing how she walked out hurriedly made Morena smile slightly, and she went back to continue a second round of sleep.
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INSIDE XENA CHAMBER.
Jeanne and Xena were seated on the bed while Shastina was standing in front, they were asking her for the report of where they sent her last night.
“Did the king leave his chamber last night?”Xena asked her.
“No, your Highness,” Shastina responded.
“Then, did you see anyone coming into the king’s chamber,” Xena asked.
“No, your highness,” Shastina responded.
“Okay, but I’m still thinking of making you the new queen’s maid, I need my people around her, I want to watch every one of her moves in the palace. But I have not concluded since you are useful to me here, when I make the decision I will let you know” Xena said and discharged her instantly.
As soon as Shastina exited the chamber, Xena and Jeanne burst into laughter, they were so excited that the king didn’t go to the queen’s chamber last night.
“I told you, can you now see that I hold the king in my palm, the king loves me, and he does my bidding,” Xena said proudly to Jeanne.
“I believed you my dear king favorite,” Jeanne said smiling, she was so elated, things will fall in place for her friends.
“Hope you have arranged my token gift for the queen, the clothes for the no existing heir. I will make her pay today for yesterday’s insult” Xena said, and her facial expression changed instantly.
“I’m the future king’s mother and I won’t allow anyone to take my place, I love the king and I know he loves me too” Xena was saying proudly and Jeanne kept nodding to all the dialogue.
After a while, Xena sprang to her feet,” I want you to make me beautiful today, I want to be the most attractive concubine among the women in the palace” she said to Jeanne, who was her beautifier, and she walked into the bathroom to take her bath.
It’s the duty of the king’s women to welcome any new king’s wife into the palace, but since the queen is senior to the previous wife in the hierarchy they are the ones to go and pay her their obeisance…
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After thirty minutes
“Done,” Jeanne said to Xena after she helped park her hair and used different hairpin accessories on her hair.
Xena looked in a mirror and smiled slightly, she loved her new look.
She stretched her hands towards Jeanne and collected the package gifts from her, and she dashed toward queen Nneka’s chamber with a devilish smile on her face.
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