"Stupid colonel.." Jae muttered angrily as she proceeded down the stairs with her sister to where the food for the officers was prepared.
"Jae, we're lucky we only got this."
"Yeah, well I hate cooking. And now I have to do it for an entire week!"
"Don't be stupid, Jae. Even you know he's being lenient."
"So?"
Jula rolled her eyes and the two continued on down the stairs and down a hall to where the kitchen was. Once there, they were greeted by a woman who looked to be in about her early twenties with slightly wavy brown hair.
"Am I correct in assuming that you two are the ones who Col. Tavington sent down here to work with us?"
"Yes, you are correct." Jae replied grudgingly.
"Very well then, my name is Victoria; come in and we'll get you started."
Jae and Jula stepped into the kitchen where a number of servants were already hard at work preparing the officers' meal.
"Now, you two are getting off a bit easy today because we are already half-way through preparing the food."
Jula nodded.
"Alright, what do we do?" she asked.
"Well, you can help cook a couple of roasts."replied Victoria thoughtfully.
Leading Jae and Jula over to a counter, Victoria showed Jae and Jula the roasts.
"Take these and put them in the ovens over on the other side of the kitchen. Be careful not to burn yourselves, but more importantly, don't burn the roasts; there's nothing worse than an upset officer. While the roasts are cooking you two can come with me to tidy and prepare the banquet hall for supper, but make sure that you are aware of the time so you can return back here to take the roasts out."
Jae and Jula nodded.
This is gonna be interesting...
"Alright, you may begin."
"Yea.." Jae muttered sarcastically under her breath as she and Jula took the roasts and carefully placed them in the fiery ovens.
"Let's go Jae."
Tidying the banquet hall and preparing it for supper proved to be surprisingly daunting work for Jae and Jula.
"I hate this." Jae hissed as she attempted to straighten out the table cloth on the banquet table while Jula set the chairs in position.
"You're telling me." replied Jula in exasperation. "Everything has to be perfect. Perfect! As in nothing out of place by even the slightest fraction of an inch! Good god, who takes the time to notice these things anyways? If it were me, I'd just eat."
"Yeah, me too." replied Jae.
"Look, Jae, I've got to go check on my roast; you should probably come too."
"I'll be there in a bit. I want to finish straightening this out and then put the plates down; then I'll come."
"Alright, but like Victoria said, make sure you don't burn it."
Jae nodded and continued on with her work while her sister left to the kitchen.
Fifteen minutes later, Jae had finished straightening out the table cloth to the perfect length and had set the table to its exact measurements.
"Well now, that's done.. I'm forgetting something..."
The roast!
Jae swept out of the banquet hall and sprinted as fast as her dress would permit her to do so all the way to the kitchen, where black smoke was curling out of one of the ovens.
My roast! I burnt it!
Jae looked at the oven in dismay as her sister stalked up to her, an impish grin on her face.
"Nice Jae, real nice."