Pleasurable Venom
Chapter 6: Stained Glass
After I remove all of my clothing, Sebastian unfolds a few under garments and passes them to me. I take them gratefully. I had not remembered to purchase any for myself at that store so I am excited to try them. I quickly find out the proper way to apply it to my body and do so. He then hands me an underskirt and corset. I know how to put the underskirt on because it is just like a normal dress. The corset however, is an entirely different story. The hell is it with women and their clothes. I look down at the corset ashamed I can't even dress myself as I should. How am I going to make it in society? I become sad and accidently let my no abilities act slip up. With my hair hanging around my face I watch a navy blue seep into the white. My scales tingle notifying me they match. The color of my sadness dyes the white. The tips and roots still white. I look towards Sebastian and his eyes are wide and a smirk of finding something out is plastered across his lips.
"Is this an ability, Miss Belford?" I nod my head in a yes. I might as well tell the truth. I will be with him for a while.
"Does it change out of random?" I shake my head no.
"Ohh?" I gather my guts and decide to speak. Or at least try to.
"They..ch…cha…change…w…wi…with my…mo…moods." I state. Speaking to people is becoming harder.
"How interesting." He takes a few steps forward and I cower back. He stops and holds a hand out to me. I look up at him in confusion and he smiles.
"Give me the corset. I will help you apply it. Normally the other maid Meyrin would do it but seeing as I am here." I hand him it and wonder what the other maid is like.
He slowly and gently turns me around and slips the stringed together contraption around my frame. He begins to lace and it becomes hard to breath. I gasp for air and try to calm. I have decided to call the corset a death trap. I have no clue why it needs to be so tight and why even wear it if you can't breathe. All the women I have ever seen wear them and they can breathe. Even though I am being restricted oxygen I can still survive. I will have to get used to this. Once Sebastian gets to the last lace he pulls the tightest and my fangs involuntarily make themselves known. He asks yet again if my fangs are an ability and I respond with a yes nod. He looks accomplished he is finding my abilities out. He allows me to put on the final layer of clothing, which is a blue and white dress. For the last detail he hands me a bonnet and I secure it to my head.
"Does this feel alright?" I move around a bit and find them constricting but other than that I am good. I am fine with wearing the uniform. I nod another yes to him and he moves to the door.
"I will prepare you a room now and feel free to wonder the manor and see your way around. Your training will begin tomorrow. If you need anything call for me. Snake is in the green house in the back of the manor and try not to do anything to disturb the master." And with that he leaves. I have lots of questions but my main ones right now are what should I do now and will I like it here? So far the only person I am wary about is Sebastian and I have been treated so much better then in that hell. I am so grateful. My hair and scales returns to their regular white and I settle with finding finny. I will not let anything happen to him. We are friends now. I walk out of the room and try to remember the way to the greeting hall. It is not hard with my photographic memory and I soon find my way to the front doors. He said he was a gardener so I might as well check the most obvious place, the garden. I grab a hold on the door handle and pull but it does not budge. What? I try and used my whole weight to open them and they do so. They are really heavy. How does Sebastian open them so easily? I peek my head out and adjust my eyes to the sunlight. I step out and look around the front. Since I can't see the garden or green house so I assume they must be in the back. I walk to the side of the manor and it takes forever. About 7 minutes later I reach the side of the manor and begin walking to the back. It takes 7 more minutes but I don't complain because I would have to get used to it. I reach the back and seek out my friend. I stick my tongue out and seek his scent. I find it and head in that direction, occasionally smelling the air to see if I am still on his trail.
I find him patting dirt around a tree and wonder if he just planted it. I walk up to him and tap his shoulder. He spins around and the motion throws me across a few yards of grass. Owww. I feel so weak. My side begins to hurt so I release endorphins and sit up feebly. He begins to tear up when he notices it is me.
"Oh. No. Helain. I am so sorry. I did not mean to. Are you hurt? I am so sorry." He comes to my side and begins to wail like a child.
"It is fine, my frrriend. I am not hurt. I was my fault I should not have startled you. Do not cry, please." He looks up at me and smiles weakly.
"You aren't?" The heaviness of hope in his words is enough to make me want to hug him and even though I probably am hurt I lie. I can't see him cry.
"No I am not." He jumps up. I stand and I smile.
"I am so glad. Look here Helain, I planted a new tree." He sounds so happy. I walk over to where he is and I smile at me getting it right. I touch the dirt he patted down. It is so soft. I grab a handful and let it fall through my fingers. It feels so good to be free. I am jerked from my thoughts when Finny taps my back. I turn around and tilt my head in a what expression.
"Have you met Snake Helain?" I shake my head in a no. His blue eyes brighten and he grabs my hand hurriedly.
"You must meet him. Come on I will show you to him." I am dragged away from the new tree and towards what I assume is the green house is. The teal colored glass is beautiful and I believe it would be nice to stay in there and heat up. I smile like a child and rush in front of Finny to open the doors. I want to see what it looks like on the inside so bad. I pull the doors open and step in and sitting on the floor in the middle of the tile surrounded by snakes is a man with white hair, but I can't see his face. This must be Snake.