A maid's tale-Loyalty
*Recommend read this tale before Chapter 16.*
Lily was a young maid who served the Notros-Farion house in the East side of the Feris region, though she is enjoying her life here as a maid getting paid for her laborer chores, she didn't always aspire to become one who does which some deem 'lowly work'.
She was once an aspiring scholar, one who attended the legendary Academy of Sorcery in the northernmost region of the Magic Continent, even with all her high reaching dreams of becoming a successful woman of high class and dignity, fate would intervene and have it's disagreement…
As some might say, not all stories have a perfect desirable ending, this was true for Lily after she was expelled from her place at the Academy for being just not capable enough…
Even when she worked and worked, desperately clinging onto connections, trying her very best to be recognised and to find a way back to the academy...
Yet her efforts were to no avail, mere attempts not even worth noting.
To the scholars of the Academy she was a failure, to everyone else she was just a young girl without a savoring purpose.
One who failed to meet her goal and was stuck in the raw struggle of finding a new purpose…
Her life as a sorcerer came to an end, she knew that… After all the failed attempts she made, she accepted it. She knew she wasn't fit to be a scholar, it only made sense that she was kicked out of the Academy for underperforming.
Once again even after her mental struggles were over, other problems came up for the young maiden…
Back in her past she never had to worry about her expenses nor her basic necessities, that fact made her a vulnerable victim of over pricing by those cruel merchants only driving by their greedy nature to gain a profit…
She ran through her expulsion money within weeks of wandering.
After a few more weeks of purposeless wandering and a series of stagecoaches she found herself in a city, the City of Quel, one along the edge of the continent bordering the Litith continent and the Kingdom of Midgard.
With no money left to spend, it was in this city the innocent damsel chose to look for a job, not knowing the dangers which a single girl may face in such a place as innocent and unknowing she was…
Lily was born with a pretty face and a sexy body, well developed for her age making her look way more mature than she is.
Here, she landed herself a job at a small tavern down a dark alleyway on the main street. To most people's common sense they would have already noticed something off about the rather sketchy place, but for the unknowing maiden it's just the place that allowed her to work, the place where she was accepted.
The first few days of her job went smoothly, nothing weird went on except for the occasional groping of the butt from drunken customers.
Lily never put much thought into this just checking it off as part of the job even when she did feel uncomfortable. She put up with these harassing acts by the customers of the tavern, as she didn't want to lose the source of income keeping her alive.
Lily didn't have much planned for the future, living her life as some cheap laborer at a small bar in a side alley and getting touched by drunk men wasn't ever on her list.
She learned from her time in the city that a lot of failed female scholars were in the same situation as she is, they didn't have the knowledge required to educate others as tutors or teachers, but because of how life is, they still had to make a living resorting to using their bodies to earn a living… Some became bar servers or tenders like Lily whilst others went more extreme becoming toys or prostitutes.
Lily grabbed the prepared tray of beers from the counter, bringing it over to a bench where four men sat talking in a rather loud volume.
She placed the tray down on the table, bending over the edge to reach into the further end of the table assigning the mugs of beer to the men, as she did so, the men reached down touching her bosom and her thighs, rubbing her body with their rough dirty hands.
…
Lily never wanted this kind of life, she never got used to the harassment…
She hated this life of being treated no more than a tool where horny men use her as a cure for their sexual desires and arousal.
Hastily she tried walking away from the table after she placed down on the mugs, but she was halted…
A tug on her skirt held her in place, a dark skinned man pulled her back, not allowing her to move any further from the table than she already is.
The man had a disgusting smile on his slightly reddened face, a sly one… He pulled her skirt up sniffing the fabric loudly so everyone on the table could hear, after he let out a long sigh of satisfaction.
The table bursted into laughter.
The tan skinned man didn't stop there, before Lily could even say another word or move another muscle of resistance, he yanked her skirt, ripping it slightly and pulling her next to him.
A sour smell of alcohol shot through her nose.
More laughter bursted from the table this time even louder than the last… Some of the men leaned down looking under the table where Lily only had her undergarments remaining after the tanned man ripped a hole in her dress.
"You are quite the beautiful one, aren't you?" The tanned man soberly stated, his hand tracing down the curves of Lily's bosom.
"Hon, I don't think we've met you before," Another chimed in, "You must be new to this, but don't worry we'll guide you through the night."
Lily twitched, unsure of the situation… Previously he had seen how other servers get in these situations then get taken away to who knows where and never to be seen again throughout the remainder of the night.
She didn't like this feeling, this eerie feeling of discomfort.
The men continued their acts of harassment as she thought long and hard about the issue.
"Sorry…" Lily replied standing up from the table, " I think I'll have to decline you gentlemen's offer…"
As she walked away, the men behind her chattered, "Heh." One huffed, "If that bitch continued to be rejectin' offers like that, she'd def be fir'd soon."
***
She quit her job, by now she had already saved up a small sum of money from working at the tavern.
By now she had gotten a grasp of how the Magic Continent of North Ether and the City of Quel was…
The area wasn't in much of a good state, back when she studied in the academy she got to learn a bit of the history prior to the modern age. To her knowledge, there was an all out magical war between the fractions of magical people especially between the schools which taught the art of incantations, they fought amongst themselves, partially tearing the continent apart both physically and economically.
With the Continent divided into areas which were ruled by mostly the respective schools in the region, the North Ether Royal Family was now nothing but a pawn… A useless piece which had no power or say over the place it once ruled over whatsoever.
Taking a few coach rides to the East where she passed the gates and the border of the Continent itself, arriving at the Midgard Kingdom in the Litith Continent…
Compared to North Ether, the atmosphere was way different, it had tall green grass in all the open fields instead of ashy ruins lying about… And it was friendly.
After almost three months worth of travelling, jumping from stagecoach to stagecoach, she found herself in an open serene agricultural region filled with farm animals and fields alike. Of course all this was noted apart from the local city where the lord's family lived.
At least that was where she was told they lived.
Right now, Lily didn't want a short term high paying job like the last one she had where she almost sold her body, she didn't want any more involvement in any of that even if it meant she wouldn't be paid as much.
By now she had gotten the gist of how non-scholars commoners lived, she just wanted the same life, but still she didn't have any of the skills to be a normal commoner…
One day when she was wandering the city looking if any job caught her eye, she found one, a parchment note with golden lining sat on the notice board, on it was a short paragraph which read:
[Hiring: maid in service, at a home North of the city, if interested take a golden ticket below, only three spots will be available.
— Earl of Feris, Julian Notros-Farion]
A coincidence which she'd never thought she would encounter, she reached for the final gold ticket.
***
Following the instructions on the golden note she rode a stagecoach up towards the north, finally arriving at their destination, she was met by a wooden house, it was well built with three blocks, but it sure wasn't the mansion she expected which would be the domain lord's home.