Her Revenge

Chapter 5

Ziana's pov

The day I started being the empress lady-in-waiting, Madame Drien and Lady Sallien kindly helped me getting used here in the palace. This place was really big and fancy for someone like me, everyone here was highly educated and mostly Royal's.

“You will be working with another lady-in-waiting of the empress, Ziana. I really have something else to do, can you handle yourself around here?” Madame Drien asked me after I was finished dressing up in this casual and simple but beautiful green dress that Empress Riya had given me.

I smiled at the both of them, putting both of my hands in the front before bowing to them. “I'm okay Madame Drien, thank you for helping me both, I really appreciate it.”

“No problem, Ziana!” Sallien cheerfully said before holding both of my hands.

“No need to bow to us Lady Ziana. Well, we’ll get going now, take care. Come now Sallien.” Madame Drien turned around but not before giving me a warm smile again. Sallien let go of my hand before following her grandmother out of the room.

Maybe not all people here in Ulvania are as bad as they thought back in Salanthore, like Madame Drien, Lady Sallien, and Kolen, and maybe the empress too. I turned to the mirror looking at myself for the first time after wearing this dress.

I… look different, different from what I used to be.

The green dress was long enough to touch the ground, it had long loose sleeves and the dress was fitted in my tummy so that it was hard to breathe. My hair now was fixed and styled perfectly thanks to Lady Sallien. I turned around again this time heading to the door before opening it, this was just the start of this all.

“Lady Ziana, you look good in that dress.” Empress Riya complimented me when I just stepped inside her room, I smiled at her before bowing.

“Greetings, your majesty.” I looked up at her “Thank you for this beautiful dress you gave me, it's really my pleasure to have them, your majesty.”

She nodded at me and looked at her back, mentioning those three women to step closer then she looked back at me. “Lady Ziana, this is my ladies-in-waiting, lady Yeoana, lady Silvinia, and lady Roziel.” She pointing to one another woman saying their names “Ladies, this is lady Ziana from Salanthore, she’s gonna be my new lady-in-waiting, please make her comfortable and work together as a group.”

I looked at those three women. They looked older than me and they all wore those smiles on their faces. The first woman whose name is lady Yeoana was about in her late 20’s was wearing a purple gown and has a golden brown hair, she was so beautiful like lady Sallien, the second lady was lady Silvinia who look like the same age as lady Yeoana was wearing a light pink simple dress with her dark brown hair was styled beautifully, the last lady was lady Roziel who was about in her mid or late 30’s whose eyes was closing with line wrinkles when she smile was wearing a golden brown dress and has brown short hair. They all look friendly, but who knows what their true personality is.

“Nice to meet you lady Ziana, it's nice working with you here, let's do our best.” Lady Silvinia greeted me with a smile on her face, the other two ladies just smiled at me.

After the interactions we just do our job, lady Silvinia and lady Roziel stayed beside her majesty while me and lady Yeoana went out to make the imperial majesty a breakfast and it's favorite tea. I noticed that lady Yeoana kept eyeing me while we prepared the food, as I got curious from time to time. So while I prepared the tea I asked her.

“Is there a problem, lady Yeoana?” She flinched and looked at me nervously. The look on her face made me more curious about what's going on.

“I-i… uhh…” she averted her eyes away from me trying to avoid any eye contacts, I can sense that there is something going on with this, she was really nervous and didn't even tried to hide it, her both hands that was holding the plate was shaking so bad.