Chapter 54- A subtle offering

Chapter 54- The subtle offering

The wheels of justice turn slowly,

but they turn.

~Unknown

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“Now eat,” Arthur commanded the servant, who had been in a daze staring at the bumptious meal at her hands. She was about to refuse, but when she realized the agony of the position she had been kept in, she swallowed her words.

The maid didn’t dare look up, terrified by the glares and resentment coming from the angle she was in, and so she dipped her hands into the meal and began to eat.

The music had long been paused, as the room instead filled the notes of anticipation and interest. The supposed merriment, meant to be a welcoming feast to the newly arrived guests, turned into a seething watch rather.

As the maid carefully ate, taking in the food which felt sour to her mouth and gulping the substances like she had swallowed a big rock in her stomach. When she received no order to stop, it was as though she was forced to take in the weight of the room.