Chapter 23
Author’s Note
It ended up being longer than expected, so I’ll split it into two parts.
That’s why I’m posting this a day early.
“Has anyone seen Meena?”
As the sun was setting, a lady’s maid with light brown skin tone, who was issuing instructions to the other maids in the mansion next to the castle, noticed that one of the girls was missing.
The lakeside castle was one of Dandall’s guest houses, borrowed by the royal family for the sake of the First Princess’ recuperation. Although it was a castle, it wasn’t very large, so servants, soldiers and normal maids were given rooms in this adjacent mansion.
The royal palace also sent in a lady’s maid, but they couldn’t send dozens of them, so instead dozens of maids were sent from Dandall and its related noble houses to assist.
The young girl named Meena was one of the maids sent by one such noble house, and her background check confirmed that she was the daughter of a merchant working as an apprentice maid to learn good manners.
Meena was a serious, hard-working, but slightly lacking in common sense girl that fed her lunch to stray cats, so the lady’s maid kept a close eye on her.
The lady’s maid, who was a high-ranking maid working in the royal palace serving the royal family, gazed around searchingly. One of the maids standing by in the mansion raised her hand fearfully.
“U-um…Ms Sera. Meena is probably bringing food to the newly arrived child.”