Dark Blaze

Chapter 1

Aerline starts to get ready in the early cockcrow. She brushes her deep ebon hair, and bathes herself by dumping her milky skin with the petals that can attach the smell to her. Knowing that she'll serve the king in toilsome and also cleaning the interior and out in the tenebrous castle above the hill she has to stride barefoot. She walks above the warm grass, and a glint of a morning sun hits the trees above and ground. The iridescent above hit her pale skin as she passed by. Villagers wave to her with greetings and a blithe upon their smile. After the long hike ahead to the castle.

Aerline got on inside to the stygian hallway to start serving the king. The king smells like a vermin afar after drinking with many ales in tankards after celebrating his son's birthday. The whole place was chaotic and all of the maids starts to clean as well as Aerline after seizing the brook and scullion to scrub the stains on the ground from ale. The perfidious king summoned Aerline to command to clean him, he yelled with ire along with his finger pointing at her "Lynx!". All maids stared at her, their glare is like telling her to go. Aerline walks in the aisle towards the throne after cleaning the marble floors hastily. She grabbed the King's shoulder to stand up and go to the tub. Aerline can't take the vermin-like smell coming from the King's body like he didn't take a bath for a week. Aerline has already gotten used to it, fighting the smell for the reason she clean floors, walls, bed, clothes and more and that is why she can take this task alone. She has the guts to leave the King up using clean water from the shore and use urine to clean his clothes.

The King and her walks to the stairs, heading to the privy and the other maids filled up the wooden tub with the buckets filled with water from the shore they stocked below where they castle stood. She slowly takes off the Kings clothes and then throw it into the bucket shaped like a oval that filled with his urine that hid it behind the doors nigh the indoor of the privy. After she take it all off pieces by pieces, she command her king to betake oneself to the fresh water and therefore to scrub its skin. She started first onto his arms, the King was modest while Aerline scrubbing his forearm to shoulders and she only see his limbs except for his private area. "The day I met you Aerline, I always knew you are the one are the finest of them all, peerless paramour" the King said while looking at the mosaic window along with a kind smile. "I thank thee, My Lord" Aerline bowed while blushing from his kindness. "I will scrub the rest that I can than the others I cannot" the King whispered. Aerline nodded while saying "Of course My Lord".

She went outside of the privy without creating any sound to give her King a peace. Suddenly, Wendy blocks her path as she turn around to stroll away the privy. " Dear Haven you scared me" Aerline whispered along with a pant after she shrieked. "Apologies, did something happened?" Wendy said with a smile that tries to unearth the truth behind the door they whispered silently. "What are you thinking?" Aerline asked as well as she raise her brow slightly high. "My apologies again, there is nothing I expect to know" Wendy smiled after she suck her lips and then began to hum as she stroll away with her hand laid on the back of her. Aerline shove her brows in and then shift her chin from side to side "What a idiot to reckon about that" she whispered. As she walks down the stairs, the maids already finished their task and them she sighed.

After all dusty with work of cleaning, she went abode safely. The deep starry night above her, a lucent moonlight and twinkling stars made the whole place like a dream. Her home was so clean as a haze and she opened the window to welcome the breeze. Aerline lights her candle to read a book that Nelie gave to her as a present. In a very long hour, her vision starts to see a blur as drowsy and her eyes commence exhausted from reading. She blew the candle and sleep at last after hard work cleaning his King and their realm.

Today is another wonderful day, she woke up sans cleaning her feet. The abode from hers is still a bit delicate. She went outside carrying an empty basket to buy some fruits and vegetables from the middle portable market of Novallian. She greeted a good morrow from everyone she passed. "Good morrow Melian" Aerline wave the farmer nigh the market. "Good morrow Keneith" she greeted the man who carries the farmer's grains. They all wave hello every morning that strikes in and faded away as goodbye and good day. Floriferous little flowers below her she crumpled and above was the beam of beamish daylight. Tress waving at them and a tiny crowd noise along with the zephyr winds. "Good morrow, Elisse, this one pray" she pointed her fingers to the fruits including her favorites which is apples, banana, orange, and grapes. She paid silver coins that the King gave to her ere going back home. She skipped wandering the market to buy a few foods for herself after purchasing the fruits from Elisse Sacklet.