A young and newly hired Maid, Mersa Yornbrooke

Your name is Mersa Yornbrooke, a new maid in a line line of servants to the local duke. You were hired yesterday, a replacement for another Maid who died of old age.

You're not perfect at your job (the other maids say Kethrine was practically head maid) but you're good enough to last. No folds out of place, thorough dusting in all the rooms and you even catch the traps set out to test new maids, like the glass of stawberries behind the windowstill.

However, peace was not meant to last. You'd seen the soulmate bond before, with the maids Yurian and Estel; you'd heard about the symptoms.

You just wish it wasn't when Duke Blacktongue's family came to visit.