Rae didn't really get good vibes from anyone in the room they all seemed so different from what she was used to. First there was the red head chick, Sabrina or something, she looked like she was right at home which didn't sit too well with Rae. Then there were the two male slaves the blue haired guy looked a little trustworthy but the red haired guy acted just as compliant as the chick. Rae wondered if it was an act and hoped, for the sake of their freedom, that it was.
The demons of the house were just as worse, Lucius, the head of the house that she'd be serving under, oozed everything that she hated about demons and every word and movement he made she hated him more and more. The son, looked like he didn't have a clue which made him an easy target for killing but probably not a good conversationalist. The daughters each one worse than the next one was cold as ice acting strange and ghost like and the other was cheery and just a big ball of sunshine! Rae probably hated her the most, needless to say she would not have a fun time here.
Lucius beckoned for her to follow him and she reluctantly complied but when he touched her back she flinched his touch burning into her skin like hate, it was all she could do to not smack his hand away and she struggled with the effort. They walked out of the room and into another part of the house which surprised Rae, from the outside the house didn't seem to big but as she went deeper into its depths she found that is seemed to just keep going, even the front room had seemed so much larger than she had originally anticipated.
Rae wondered if she had underestimated just how powerful this demon family was, the other demons that had tried to tame her did not even have half the luxury that this family lived in. She was beginning to worry about her current situation but would not give up so soon, her mother had called it her 'firey spirit' the endless determination that carried her through life leading her to where she was now, so tantalizingly close to freedom that she could almost taste it.
"Well now all the pomp and official nonsense is out of the way. Allow me to say in sincerely this time. My name is Lucius Dregori, and I bid you welcome to my family." Rae barely payed any attention to what the filthy demon had to say, it was nothing important and she didn't need to remember his name because she wasn't going to stay here long. She made a mental note of to purposefully forget it out of spite, these were the type of methods that she used against her previous owners making them resent her until they gave her up.
Rae was going to use the same ones on this family but since the letter she decided to carve a new plan and was already constructing an assassination in her head. She wasn't too keen on killing any one but she would do anything if it meant getting her freedom back, but in order for her plan to work she would have to get some of the other slaves to help her out, only question was how.
Lucius kept talking as she thought and something he said caught her attention, "Since the kids aren't here I'll gladly answer any questions you may have- even those about the game now. But if possible I'd like to handle that as we walk to my office, I'm desperately behind on work." He was asking her about the letter and she was happy to comply but first a little deception, this was a new house so no one knew her personality so it would be easy to fake one of her own.
Rae cleared her throat and with the cheeriest voice she could muster, without seeming fake, she replied, "oh that thing? I wasn't really planning on participating, I'm happy to do my part and help out with the house." She was never very good at lieing but this was a matter of life and death and so she tried as best she could to keep a smile on her face seeming as sweet and innocent as a small child.
Dydo scrubbed her skin until it was red frowning as she did but no matter how much she scrubbed the smell still lingered in the air around herself, cursing how stupid she was for even touching it. She let out a deep sigh letting her hands rest for a minute, she had initially needed the humans to drive away the constant flow of suitors that came to the house in search of Dydo's notoriously good looks. Even so, she never expected them to be so foul, not ten minutes in and she was already regretting having asked her father such a thing.
She straightened up putting on a stern face and telling herself no, this is for your own good and you will see this through. As the words floated in her mind she slammed her fist into her palm, which was something she did often when making a final decision about something like a judge throwing down a hammer. And with that she stood up letting the water drip back into the tub before getting out and drying herself with a towel, going over herself twice just to get in one last attempt of getting her usual smell back.
She didn't have time to dry her long, thick hair so instead she twisted it up into a tight bun letting a few pesky strands loose in an attempt to seem casual. She dried off as much of her hair but it would take much longer to get completely dry so her bun would do for now, the already dark hair was darker still from the water. Dydo ignored this and slipped into anther white dress this one with dark roses on the skirt and frills on the neckline, the skirt was short than the last one sitting a few inches above her knees. The sleeve down to her elbows, she looked as though she had stepped out of the pages of a fifties magazine.
On her way out of her room Dydo grabbed her glasses putting them on her vision always foggy after a bath. She walked through the halls with the same ghostly air as before keeping her head high this time as she stepped through the doors of the front room, she did not flinch this time mainly because she had already gotten over the worst of it and was prepared. The other reason, she noticed, was that most of the slaves had left the room with their perspective masters but was surprised to see hers still here, what was he still doing here? Jeeze, humans were so useless. Instead of punishing him, however, she decided to take his lack of productivity and turn it into an opportunity.
She wasn't going try to get to know him, no, they were not going to be friends he would work for her and that was all, as soon as his usefulness had run out she would get rid of him. Perhaps sell him to a farming demon that needed the labor or give him to a poor demon family in need of some helping hands. Anything so that she wouldn't have to smell him ever again. She walked passed him motioning for him to follow her and she made her way through the house until she stepped outside into the garden at the front of the house.
The garden was lavishing, overflowing with exotic flowers of all shapes and sizes some that were brought over from the demon world and some from far off lands that shouldn't be able to survive here. But still, there they all were bright and breath taking, the garden was in a circular formation with tiers in which sat another set of flowers looking like a stadium of spectators. In the center was a stone basin that acted as a fountain slowly trickling over with streams of water that flowed into a circle of flowers surrounding the basil, small round stones sat in the base of the fountain completing the entire experience.
Dydo placed a hand on one hip pointing with the other toward the garden saying, "Find me something useful." Her face was the same as always, blank and emotionless looking at him in waiting for him to comply, she had never been around humans and from what she could tell they were very irrational so there was no way of knowing how this one would react but he looked intelligent enough, though she knew from personal experience that looks could be deceiving.