Half these lords and ladies will want to steal you away from me now.”
“I would never abandon you, milady,” the older handmaiden assured her mistress, gently disentangling herself until they stood face to face, if more closely than proper protocol would dictate. xhamster “Old Dex gave me a smack or two when I got back, but we have far too much work that needs doing for him to waste time on anything worse than that. As neither the prettiest of maidens nor the best connected she tended to fade into the background, especially on such lively occasions. She had long since earned a reputation for having a sweet tooth, but that reputation had ballooned to towering heights in recent months as her trips to the palace’s underbelly grew ever more frequent.
