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~The palace in Alexandria the next day~

     Lani woke up early the next morning just as the sun was rising. She looked around the room noticing that she had actually slept in a royal bed (not as royal as the princess' but still royal). It was the best sleep she had ever had. She got up and looked in the closet of her room where she found a few servants dresses of different colors. She put on a plain white dress and headed into the princess' bedroom.
     The princess was sitting up in her bed, looking out of the window as Lani entered the room. "Good morning, Lani," she said, cheerfully.
     "Good morning, your highness," Lani said back. "Come, we must bring you to get all washed up."
     "Where is that?" Princess Serenity asked.
     "Your own private bath is right through that door, your highness," Lani said pointing to a door at the opposite end of the room.
     Princess Serenity got up and headed over to the door. Lani rushed ahead of her to open the door for her. "Oh, please," Princess Serenity said, "I can open a door for myself."
     "Yes, I do believe you can, princess," Lani said. "But while you are in Egypt, you are to be treated how any other royal or noble is treated." Lani walked into the bathroom after Serenity, making sure there were towels and shampoo and all the other necessities for taking a bath. Once Lani was sure that everything was in there, she left the princess alone and went to her own room for a little while.
     Lani couldn't find anything to do in her room so she went to the princess' room for a while. Before her very eyes, in the corner opposite the door she came through, she saw a bookcase with books on it. Lani couldn't believe her luck. She walked to the bookcase, took out a book, and started reading it.
     Before she could get very far in the book, the door between the bathroom and the princess' room opened and Princess Serenity stepped out, dressed in a white Egyptian dress with a gold sash.
     "Princess!" Lani cried all of a sudden. "You should have told me you were done! I would've opened the door for you." Lani took a good look at Princess Serenity then. "Princess, you look gorgeous in that," she said.
     The princess looked a little embarrassed and said quietly, "Thank you, Lani. There's something I need to ask of you though."
     "What's that?"
     "Could you call me Serenity please? I don't like always being called 'Princess' or 'Your Highness'."
     "Nay, I cannot do that, highness," Lani said. "I am your servant so I could not speak to you as if we are equal. You are above me."
     "Lani, please," Princess Serenity pleaded. "At least when it's just the two of us. If there is someone else around us, call me what you must but when its just the two of us, please just call me Serenity. Could you do that?"
     Lani thought for a while and finally answered, "Okay, I'll do that."
     Serenity grinned and said, "Thanks, Lani." Just then, a rumble came from her stomach.
     "Are you hungry?" Lani asked. "I think that there are servants in here who will bring breakfast to your room at around an hour after sunrise and that would be right about now."
     As if on cue, there was a knock on the princess' door and a servant entered with a bowl of fruits. "Where shall I put this, your highness?" the servant asked Princess Serenity.
     Serenity looked around and saw a table near her bed. "Please, just place it on that table."
     The servant bowed and said, "Of course." He placed the bowl on the table, bowed again, and walked out of the room.
     "Go ahead and eat now, Serenity," Lani said, smiling.
     "This is not what I am used to eating for breakfast," Serenity said. "I usually have bread with milk when I'm in Canaan."
     "Serenity, you're not in Canaan right now," Lani told her a little strictly. "Here, there is usually fruit for breakfast if you live in the palace." Lani took a pear and handed it to Serenity. "Here, it's the best fruit around."
     Serenity started eating although she wished she could have her bread and milk. She noticed Lani not taking anything though. "Lani, go ahead and have some breakfast," she said.
     Lani looked at her thankfully as if she had been waiting for the princess to say that and took a fruit for herself and started eating.

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