The kings maiden

chapter one

"NO NO NO" a king says sternly at a line of maids and butlers, stressed about their incompetence. "how fucking hard is it to follow basic orders."

The already established staff of the castle looked away, knowing fully well how hard it was to even get a job as staff at the castle. so to apply as the personal maid or buttler of the king himself, they couldnt even imagine. Ornstein, the kings consultant and right hand man just yawned bored. out of everyone there he knew the king the most and personaly dint think the servers for hire were all that great either. the king sighed and looked over at the people in line, they all avoided eye contact with him.

The king scoffed "how hard is it to find good help around here." He looked up at the first server in line, "you." the maid looked up surpriced and worried. "you were unable to do the simplest of tasks right." he continued to the next, " and how long does it take to get me files from the library? Not 50 minutes thats for sure."

"i-i was just" the server stuttered, but was cut off.

"No excuse is good enough" He then went on for a while and told each and every servent why they had been rejected. the staff was dismissed and each individual maid and butler were excused after being told off. at the end of the line the last maid ran off crying leaving only the king and Ornstein in the thrown room.

Ornstein laughs, "king Luneth, never fails to go above and beyond."

Luneth smiles for the first time sense the interviews began, "constructive critisism, also could you just call me by my name normally."

Ornstein shrugs. "your not used to it, buut ill stop, eeeventualy. you know when u do get used to it."

Luneth nods and sighs as he makes his way to his thrown and sits. He thinks about his predicament, without a main helper he was stuck ordering around the staff by himself, not giving him time for much else. He was a reletively new king to the kingdom, things were changing, he was solving economical and social issues that were incredibly fucked before his ruling. he had no time to care for the castle full time. he sighed.
Ornsteins eyes followed his friends movements and frowned. after overthrowing the tyrant king that once ruled the kingdom Luneth has lost that spark he used to have and hasnt had time for much of what he likes.

"hey" Ornstein calls out to Luneth throwing a hooded cape at him. Luneth grabs it last minute and looks at Ornstein confused. His friend puts on a similar hooded cape, "come on lets go into town."
Luneth thinks about it looking down at the hood. "i dont know... i should go back to my study and-"

"stop dude, your working too hard"
Luneth sulks in his thrown as Ornstein gets closer to try and drag him out by his leg " come on man, when was the last time youve been into town."

"uuhhhhh"

"ill tell you," he says dragging him on the floor towards the door, luneth trying to shake him off. "its been a year, ever since you started ruling and the last time you whent into town was 5 years ago. As great as your doing fixing things, woulnt it be nice to enjoy seing some of that, i mean the town has changed drastically ever sence you started your rule."

Luneth finally shakes Ornstein off his foot and sits on the floor. " it... would be nice to see how everything is doing for myself"
ornstein smiles at him.
The king coughs, " strictly for research i dont have time to enjoy myself." he says getting up, putting the hooded cape on and making his way out his consultant behind him rolling his eyes.

They made their way around the castle avoiding everyone to an extent as they snuck out, it wasnt forbitted to go out for them ofcourse he is the king, but to go out as the king for the first time and everytime after that meant having guards with him. Luneth scoffed as he though about how pretentious and ridiculous it felt, he was a warrior before this for gods sake and it was absurd that he had to sneak around his own castle to go out by himself.
They were outside now making their way to the stables "remind me to change the laws saying i need fucking guards and a carrige with me when i go out."
Ornstein though about it as he fixed his horse. " yeahhhh that shouldnt always be the case, but good luck passing that through the high court. havent they already been giving you trouble?"