The Lost Queen -Book 1- Alden

21. Servants

"Hey, you 2 go to the ballroom and I'll catch up. I want to change my clothes. I'm all dirty from exploring the offices. Give me like 10 minutes."

I go into the relax room and pick out some different clothes and I suddenly realize these people are all going to be hungry and thirsty. "Well shit."

"Guard."

"Yes sir."

"How many servants are in there?"

"143 sir."

"Well that is oddly specific. Are they all dirty and do they all seem like they're starving?"

"Yes sir... Well, all but 2 sir."

"Great, I forgot about those 2. Well I guess they don't matter for now. We have to feed them."

"They brought a massive amount of wine and blood bottles from the other castle. But not much food sir."

"How much is a massive amount?"

"2,500 blood bottles and 3,000 wine bottles sir."

"Wow. Ok. I think I have a plan. Can you take a couple guards and go get 100 large pizza's? Just make them a random assortment of toppings."

"Yes sir." He turns to leave.

"And get them from multiple places so they get here faster."

"Yes sir."

I hear him tell the guards outside the door and then they all leave.

I take a quick shower and throw some clean clothes on. 

I walk into the ballroom and it's still set up the same way. The head table is on a platform in front of the dance floor. Past that is a bunch of round tables set with with chairs all the way around them. I take a seat on the table in the center of the platform watching everyone.

The servants are all standing by the tables. Being careful not to touch the dance floor or any of the tables and chairs. They are not making any noise. None of them will even peek at me, they are staring at the ground. The guard was right, these people are all dirty and hungry. 

Clark is standing by 2 servants dressed in all black and they appear to be well kept. I assume they are the Madame and Monsieur. They are the only 2 that aren't dirty. I can see the 3 of them making small talk, but I'm to far away to hear what they are saying.

Victor is standing by the servant we spoke to the morning. He is trying to get her to speak. It doesn't seem to be working. He glances at me and shrugs his shoulders. She then says something to him but I can't read her lips. Except the last word was sir. And Victors posture changes immediately. He goes from relaxed and friendly to pissed off and ready to kill in about 1 second.

Victor turns and yells, "WHAT?" 

Everyone in the room turns to stare at him.

The 2 servants in black look at him as well. Then they stare at the girl who starts to shake and cry.

I stand up. "Servant girl come here now."

She approaches my table very slowly still crying and shaking.

I grab her and start to leave the room with her. I glance back to check on Victor who is bright red at this point. He may kill everyone while I'm gone. Clark can probably deal with it though.

By the time I get into the relax room with her she is starting to panic. "Calm down. You're not in trouble. What did you say to my brother?"

"The Madame said she is the only one to speak in front of you tonight. If any of us speaks to you, she will have us raped and beat to death sir."