Chapter 9

Emillia placed the tape measure around Lillian's waist as she took her measurements for the dress that Lillian wanted for the ball.

They were still in Tyto's and Clancy's bedroom Emillia shared with them, watching Clancy even though she was recovering.

"Hmmm, seems the waist is around a 4 and a 1/2 Lillian. Have you been eating as a vegetarian again?" asked Emillia.

Lillian sighed and thought of the time she had started being a vegetarian when she was 12, she had learned about meats being from animals she began just to eat vegetables and lost a lot of weight since then.

"Yes I have been eating as a vegetarian Emillia but I won't go back to being a meat eater of eating animals," said Lillian sarcastically.

Emillia laughed and rolled her eyes at that cause while Theresa had to run with walking on high heels lesson, Lillian ate only vegetables and nothing else.

Lillian giggled a little as Emillia placed the tape measure down and wrote the measurement down on a piece of paper that held the dress Lillian picked for the ball and held all the measurements pointed at the areas Emillia measured.

Emillia took another measure at Lillian's right arm to see that the sleeve will go past her arm and drape around it toward her knees.

Once that was done and took another few written notes down Lillian left to check on Clancy while Theresa came in to get her measurements done before her lesson of walking in high heel shoes begin.

 ***

After of about thirty minutes of measurements and making everything perfect Emillia redrew the pictures of the dresses of what they could look like with the adjustments and arrangements.

She showed it to the twins one each time cause while Lillian was in the room Theresa skipped lessons after 20 minutes of being in those heels and hurting feet.

Both girls loved them so much and they were beautiful as everyone would say.

When Emillia showed it to her stepmother, Mary clapped her hands in excitement and asked "Do my daughters love them?"

Emillia nodded her head saying "Yes madam I showed it to them earlier in case if they didn't."

Mary beamed at her saying "Nothing but the best for my two daughters, oh and Emillia you must remember that since you placed me in a great mood of your drawings you can have a snack for today but that is it. Got it?"

Emillia nodded her head and curtsied before her stepmother saying "Yes Mrs. Lovinggale I understand very much."

"Good now leave and get out of my site you unworthy peasant," spat her stepmother.

Emillia nodded her head, turned around, and ran quickly until she was out of her stepmother's view.

Coming to a halt Emillia saw that she was in Tyto and Clancy's bedroom and both Lillian and Clancy were staring up at her in silence.

"Mom told you to get out of her site didn't she?" asked Lillian bored already cause it was already turning into a normal routine for servants to run from her mother who always had a temper and when that temper exploded all the servants in the house payed the price.

Emillia nodded her head and went into the room and sat down while saying "Yup she did but not before she gave me permission for a snack only for today and beamed at the drawings of the dresses you and your sister loved."

Lillian gave a smile and said "Great now that you get a snack maybe if you keep this up she can promote you to be her pet."

Emillia stared at her with a raised eyebrow and then a moment of silence fell before the laughing began.

Lillian, Clancy, and Emillia were both laughing at her joke cause Mary never had a pet and the last person who was her pet became one and that was when Lillian and Theresa were 5.

Finally the laughter died down upon hearing footsteps.

Fearing that she overstepped her stepmother's graces Emillia went over to Clancy who pretended to cough while Lillian was pretending to giggle at the both of them while at the back of the wall.

"Lillian!! What are you doing here!?!? Don't you know that Clancy is sick?!?!" shrieked Mary Lovinggale.

"Mom I just wanted to laugh at them for the sickness and-" Lillian began while whining.

Mary gave her a glare that shut her up and sent her to her room with giving Emillia strict instructions to give Clancy cough medicine for to help her sleep tonight.

Emillia nodded her head and quickly went back to work of pressing the now warm washcloth to Clancy's forehead.

When she heard footsteps go away and made sure they were Mary's (by turning around and looking at the doorway) she got up and helped Clancy sit up and let her walk around cause those who were sick could never get up to walk around happy and healthy.

While Clancy did that for a minute Emillia knew that her powers had healed Clancy from the sickness.

Emillia gently led her to bed and gave her soup telling her that they should take precautions of seeing that it may come back.

(In other words they had to keep up the charade that Clancy was sick cause no one heals in over 2 hours from throwing up!) 

Clancy understood her and began to ate her now warm or cold soup and asked if the cooks could warm it up.

Emillia did just that while grabbing a few cheese wedges with bread as a snack.

When Emillia came back she had some now hot tomato soup in one hand and wrapped up towel filled with the stuff she gathered as a snack for today.

Emillia set the towel wrapping down on the table and went over to Clancy and gave her the soup while she sat up in bed with the pillows stacked up against her back.

Clancy began eating it and moaning perfectly commenting on how great it was.

Meanwhile while Clancy ate her soup Emillia took her bundle to the floor near the fireplace of where her pallet slept with a nice blanket as a gift from both Tyto and Clancy as a token saying thank you for everything.

It helped Emillia stay warm even in the winter it did it's job.

Emillia rubbed the blanket as it was now growing from new to a little old cause it had been with her for 2 years.

Carefully she opened her bundle and ate bits of it savoring the sweet taste cause she never had rich food and always ate whatever the rest of the servants left behind.

"Emillia could you close the door? It's cold in here." asked Clancy pretending to shiver.

Emillia stared at her and replied "Sure Miss. Clancy I'll do just that."

It was never a right for a servant let alone a Workern to question it's master's or mistresses words on what they were thinking of or anything else.

As she did that Clancy pulled out a triangle bundle in her wrapped towel along with a few other things and said "Come here Emillia please?"

Emillia did just that as soon as she made sure the door was closed, cause whenever Clancy did this sort of not what her mother wanted her to do.

 Clancy passed the bundle over to her saying "Thank you for everything Emillia and I hope that you can save this for later."

Emillia took it with numb hands and opened it only to find a triangular square box and inside that box was a beautiful necklace made of silver leaves looking as if they were dripping with water and came to the center was a crescent silver moon like the birthmark one on her left eye.

It was beautiful that Emillia didn't hear Clancy the first thing she said afterward until Clancy waved her hand in front of her face and asked again "Could you go to this mysterious ball everyone's talking about?"

That stunned Emillia cause no one cares about a low serving working servants girl called a Workern.

"I'm afraid not cause no one cares about me at all and I am not beautiful enough to attend and besides if I wanted to then I wouldn't have anything to wear so I am just not going," replied Emillia sadly.

She hated to admit it, but she really wanted to go outside and see the town for the first time in 10 years cause she had forgotten what it had looked like before her stepmother wormed her way into her fathers life and her father just left and disappeared without a trace of him being anywhere.

Clancy noted the sadness in her best friend, felt like adopted mother's, voice and made herself promise that she would make Emillia happy cause she loved her a lot.

Emillia looked up to see Clancy looking down at her tired.

"Bed time right now Clancy cause you look like in the next minute you will topple over and fall asleep on the floor," said Emillia strictly.

Clancy nodded her head and gave Emillia the plate, while Emillia stood up to take it from her, and placed the covers back over her and went right to sleep.

Emillia placed the soup back in the kitchen for the cooks to clean and went back to work in the Clancy's and Tyto's bedroom, of taking some more measurements of the fabric that she would need and cut.

She also took the gift that Clancy gave her and hid it in a loose floorboard that layed underneath her pallet and also there was a photo of her parents and a flower that she gotten from her mother before she died.

***

After doing that Emillia went over to where the curtain was and opened it to see the moon was already up.

Knowing that she was a little up past curfew time that the servants usually have, Emillia shut it and went over to her pallet and lit the fire bringing it back to life with her powers cause it was time to gain control over it or Mary will know that she is very powerful.

Done with that Emillia layed down on her pallet and draped the warm blanket around herself and went right to sleep with a smile on her face knowing that tomorrow showed promise of great things.

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