The Warmonger's Runaway Princess

Chapter 7 **My New Position**

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Leaving Theo behind, I walked back to my quarters, stating that I had finished my last job and to no surprise, I got given another chore. But this chore made me bite my lip...

I was to go and see the weasel and help her with some gift, well it wasn't just me but a sudden command for quite a number of maids...

From a few gossip sessions, that I tend to only let myself be in ear shot with but not go up to the maids speaking, I have come to know that the weasel has been taking over all of the duties in the Crowned Prince's residence in a big manner.

Before, the weasel had done it quietly, but now that I was apparently dead, she was making a big deal about it and now that she was in charge of the gifts to be given at the wedding, because she was the wife of the Crowned Prince, she had found something that seems to include work from the maids...

Dam, if only I could have worked in the outer court! Or anywhere else!

Sighing to my utter bad luck, I do as I'm told and head straight towards the weasel's quarters and finally found myself wondering what this gift was, that needed so much help from so many maids...

To my utter astonishment, it was actually something that I thought was quite nice...

For the new sister in law, many precious feathers had come to make two items, and this was most of what I had to do. I was to separate the two lots of feathers and then separate them again into small and large feathers, to make a certain part of a head dress. It really was an easy task and I really did wonder why they needed so much help to do all this! But...I was happy! Having done laundry work a lot lately, this was something simple and I was even able to sit down while doing this!

Happily helping to separate the feathers, I could see how beautiful the head dress would be!

With pretty stones and interesting weaving cloth already attached, I was already anticipating what it would look like!

Ah! I can see now why they choose these specific flowers and feathers! They matched the rest of the headdress!

Seeing that the colors used were matched, I put up two feathers and fixed one of them up so it would look prettier.

Now that I notice, it wouldn't be the big one that would be sold for more, now that I fixed the smaller feather up...

As I leisurely continued my job, I was suddenly cast into a shadow, which made me look up.

"You! How can someone so dirty be touching my feathers!?"

Oh...Oh...

"Get her away from here!"

Before I could even sigh to my predicament of seeing the weasel being nasty to me, I was taken by my arms and made to stand up. Being forced to walk, I wanted to curse the reasoning of looking so dirty but still could not stop myself of knowing that I needed to continue it!

I really...Needed to get away from here!

"Halt!"

"Sir?"

Looking up to see...Ah! I know him!

"Bring her to the Crowned Prince's quarters!"

...Uh? Wait!

Why there!?

Turning, yet giving myself no extra strength to show that I had absolutely no enthusiasm to enter into the next place, I was nearly dragged away.