The Flowing Domain

Refresher

It was morning in the kingdom of Andromeda once again. Birds chirping, maids working vigorously around the castle as always, everything seemed the same as always. There wasn't anything special, nothing entertaining. All plain same encounters and talks. "Princess Aquila, it's time to wake up! You have a lot of meetings today due to your trip." The same made waking the princess up once again. It was all the same, everything was the same. That kept repeating in princess' head as she slowly opened her eyes, looking directly at the ceiling as she newly woke up. "That's a new thing there." Her soft, but tired voice could be heard as the maid dressed in black with a white apron on top of her black dress would tilt her head slightly. She had her hair in a bun, like always. She seemed to be quite experienced in her job and she wasn't new here. She wakes up and makes sure the princess is ready. Well, at least she is one of them. There are a lot of maids that make sure the princess is getting ready for her daily activities. "Your statement... the last part. Finally something fresh and new out of your mouth." Princess Aquila would slowly sit up, her lavender coloured hair would straighten down once again from scattering on the bed.

The maid blushed, gritting her teeth lightly as she chuckled ticklishly. "Don't worry, you are going to encounter many new things today, your highness." She bowed down, then she walked towards the little default model that was set up to 'wear' princess' attire that she will be wearing every day, which of course, changes every single day without a doubt. She slowly untucked the dress from the model, looking at how long was the dress and just smiled, before putting it on the bed. The princess already sat up and looked at the wall that was in front of her, maps that were drawn in front of her eyes ever so as her room was a mess. She especially didn't let the maids touch anything in her room since she was having an intense study process going for the past few months of her isolation. She stretched her hands a bit, watching how her limbs cracked which made her chuckle. "Awh, princess. You have slept in a bad position again, didn't you?" The maid asked as more maids rushed in the room to help out a single maid with dressing the princess up. Some took the corset, some started undressing her from her nightgown, some put her socks on.

She stood up at the end as she twirled around and looked at her dress. She had her tight corset on, revealing her very small waist. "For today's dress, we decided to pick you, our highness a special dress for your meetings. A long smooth dark blue dress with half sleeves that were made out of silk, covering your forearms and a small silky cape from behind which covers your lower part of the dress. The dress has 2 layers, one of the layers being in the colour of night blue and the other layer is parted in half, covering your left and right hip with exceptionally beautiful sea blue colour blending through it," The maid spoke, watching the princess admire her dress in front of the mirror as she nodded her head slightly. "Magnificient," Princess said, before watching how another maid untucked a chair for her so she could sit for the maid to comb her hair. She went over towards the chair, sitting down on the soft pillow below as her long and silky hair was combed by the head maid. She was caressing her locks as she combed it, once she finished untackling some parts of the hair she looked at her majesty. "How would you like your hairstyle to be today, princess?" The maid spoke as she waited for an answer and put her comb down, looking at her as Aquila pondered for some time before speaking up. "Braid my front locks and then join them at the end." The maid nodded, starting to braid her hair as she was careful. It was clear that she wasn't a newbie as well, new maids weren't allowed to have any contact with the princess. The head maids usually served and looked after the queen, which were much older maids. But these maids were young though they were working for a princess and the castle in general for a few years already. They were trusted, in away. 


"Your royal guard, Kanno Hajime wanted to see you yesterday night. But you were studying, so we asked him to come back tomorrow morning since you are free in an hour." The maid continued as she tied up the end of Aquila's braids, then taking the tiara from the table as she slowly placed it on her head, making sure it didn't fall as well. Aquila opened her eyes and looked at herself in the small mirror. "Is that so?" The maid nodded, doing last touch-ups on Aquila's hair before slowly backing off as the princess continued looking at herself in the mirror and admiring the diamonds and emeralds that were embedded on her tiara. Hearing Kanno's name intrigued her in a way, she was even more interested once the maid said that he wanted to visit her for something yesterday night. "Tell me more." Aquila insisted, making the maid startled a bit though she placed her hands behind her back, nodding her head slightly as she parted her lips. "He wanted to visit you about the trip with Prince Kieran. He wanted to make sure if he was needed or not. I'm not sure how Sir Kanno found out that you're having a meeting with the prince though..." Aquila placed her hands on her lap, staring at her own reflection as her jewel eyes would glimmer as she heard that. So he wanted to know if he was needed, huh?  She slowly stood up, standing behind her chair as she tucked the chair in, staying behind it as she placed her hands on the head of the chair, her gloves coming in contact with the frame of the chair. She tapped her fingertips against the frame, diving in her own thoughts. The maid stood behind her silently, just looking at her as she would move forward and open the drawer that was filled with jewellery. There were necklaces, stud earrings, many brooches with expensive stones embedded on them and other jewellery.