"Ah..."

The girl bowed her head.

"Her Highness believed it was for the best," she began, smiling slightly as she did, "To send one of her own retinue, you see. A formal invitation to the Captain of the Iron Rose Knights deserved proper presentation, she told me."

She paused for a moment, somewhat uncertain and surprised at being asked her name. Perhaps she hadn't expected it? However, moments later she managed to make a response.

"My name is Alisha Pelvir," she introduced herself, curtsying, "Lady in Waiting of her Royal Highness Princess Eliabelle Tanenway Falthaen."

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When Indrau entered the kitchen(an expansive room with a wide variety of implements intended for cooking, and quite an expansive area for the storing of various foods in order to keep them from spoiling), he was greeted with a rather unusual sight.

[url=http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1654323]There were three maids.[/url]

The shortest one, with her pink hair and pigtails, was seated at a table, kicking her feet as she watched the other two, smiling. One maid, the taller one with blue hair, was rapidly chopping vegetables with an exceptionally sharp-looking knife. Finally, the brunette was quietly preparing a pot to use for cooking.

"Remember!" declared the pink-haired maid. None of them had noticed the newcomer. "It's only worth it if there's meat! Lots and lots of meat!"

"Er, m-maybe you could help, then, Alaree," replied the brunette, looking back over her shoulder at the pink-haired maid, "I-I'm sure i-it would go faster, too..."

She trailed off into silence.

"You both know I'm bad at cooking!" came Alaree's cheerful response, "So I'll supervise! Supervising is important too!"

The blue-haired maid sighed. "Your 'supervising' is just an excuse to-"

It was about then that she noticed that one of the knights had approached. Immediately, she stopped what she was doing and curtsied. the brunette swiftly realized as well, and, blushing in embarrassment at her inaction, curtsied herself.

Alaree noticed, but didn't make any move to get up and curtsy until the blue-haired girl gave her a rather intense glare.

"Hello, Sir Indrau," they said, nearly in unison.

They were Fanilly's maids, but all the knights were to be treated with respect, obviously.

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