Chapter 1
"Addison!" Screamed an angry voice, Annabeth winced slightly and quickly sped to her boss knowing better then to comment on getting her name wrong.
"I apologise Lady Drew," Annabeth Chase said quietly to her employer's daughter.
"You apologise?Apologising is not going to clean thou room or dress me! You foolish slave!"The tall girl screeched back making Annabeth's ears ring. Annabeth nodding an quickly sped to the angry girl.
Drew Tanaka, Annabeth's boss' daughter. She was quite tall and Asian, her hair was black and hung around her head in perfect ringlets. Her make up had already been done by another maid and looked perfect.
Annabeth quickly helped dressed the girl in a beautiful pink silk stola and palla, it made her own stola and palla made of dirty white linen look horrible. Of course it always looked like that, covered in dirt, food stains and ripped.
"I expect better of you slave," Drew scolded Annabeth before gracefully walking out of the room.
"'I expect better of you slave' I will show thou something thee will not expect," Hissed Thalia Grace mocking, "I call art thou fist and I will connect it to thee Tanaka face,"
Annabeth snorted in a very unladylike way at her best friend.
Thalia grinned, she had short spiky black hair that most people frowned upon. Her palla and stola's tend to be painted black, Thalia was a bit of an outcast yet she liked it like that. She was Annabeth's only friend that she saw regularly, other friends were scattered over the village and she only met them on special occasions.
"Thalia! Ma'am would have you booted out onto thou street with only a penny to your name if she heard you! For your jokes do amuse me, thee must be careful when she makes them!" Annabeth told her friend half kidding half serious, Thalia shook her head a chuckled.
"Whatever thee says," Thalia smiled pulling Annabeth out of the grand sleeping quarters that belonged to Drew and towards her younger sister's room.
"Good morning Miss Veronica," Annabeth said pushing open the door to see the small girl playing with a carefully crafted china doll wearing a pretty blue silk gown.
Veronica herself had long frizzy black hair and topaz coloured eyes, her skin was quite pale but not in a unhealthy way. She was quite small for her age; she looked around 5 when she was infant 8.
"ANNIE! THALS!" She squealed happily hugging the two maids, she giggled happily when Annabeth picked her up in her skinny arms.
"Hello Miss Veronica," Thalia smiled, Thalia seemed to everyone else a cold, hard, angry, sassy, sarcastic and horrible. But really she was quit sweet and kind, but only Veronica and Annabeth knew that side of her.
"Maid Thalia!" A squeaky voice sang out, Annabeth saw Thalia bite back a groan. Jules stepped inside the room smiling a sticky sweet smile.
She was really tall with pale blonde hair that was held up in a really tight bun, her eye were a pretty hazel colour. She's a maid too but just makes Annabeth or Thalia do everything because of her friendship with 'Lady' Drew.
"Lady Drew requests thee to go dress shopping with her," Jules said giving another sticky sweet smile, Thalia opened her mouth o make a rude sarcastic remark but Jules cut her off.
"Bite thou tongue! For I have no interest for what thee has to say, now go!" Jules spat pushing a fuming Thalia out of the room, Jules sent Annabeth a disgusted look before leaving.
"I do not like her Annie," Veronica said making Annabeth jump.
"Nor do I, I do not think anyone does finds Jules personality completely inviting," Annabeth said smiling, Veronica giggled. She grabbed to older 18 year olds' hand and dragged her to the grand bed in the centre of the room.
Veronica pushed Annabeth onto the bed before running off; Annabeth was thankful for the seat and gratefully sat down. Veronica went to the hundreds of books that were stacked up in the corner; she grabbed a thin book before running back to Annabeth.
"Can you read this to me?" Asked Veronica, Annabeth nodded.
Annabeth was one of the only maids that could read so Veronica was very keen to take advantage of her older friend's skills. The book was quite thin but not too thin, it had a leather cover with 'Tales from the Deep' in gold cursive writing.
"'Tales from the Deep', I know which story thee request me to read," Annabeth grinned opening the book. The page were yellow and quite old, she turned it to the page were the story she had read a thousand times before started.
Annabeth grinned; Veronica sat down on her lap happily. Annabeth placed the book on Veronica's and put her chin on her head and began to read.
She re-told the tale perfectly, about magic, beauty and merpeople. Her voice curled around every word perfectly making Veronica feel she had fallen into the story and was living every moment as the beautiful skinny maid said it.
