Time for a well earned sleep.

you ate your dinner to the crackling sound of the fire place, the meal was simply excellent, the spaghetti was perfectly limp and twirled onto your fork with ease and absorbed the flavours of the sauce and anchovies to great, almost transcendent taste, paired with the wine which was red as blood with its fruity aroma filling your nose. This was by far one of the best dinning experiences you ever had except for one thing.

Felicia stood in silence and watched you eat, her hands were bunched into fists as the veins on the back of her hands bulged on her skin, her mouth was open in a furious sneer as her teeth grinded together. You did not know what you did to upset her but you certainly felt that you did, you had to do something quickly out of fear of a harsh reprimand or worse.

With an exaggerated moan of delight you finished your last fork full and rubbed your stomach contentedly "That was wonderful Felicia, five stars!" You said with a shinning smile, the maid visible shook as if freed from a trance and returned swiftly to her neutral mannerisms "Of… Of course sir, it's my duty and privilege, would you… care for anything else?" She asked, gritting her teeth again into an attempt at a smile.

You rose up from your chair still smiling happily and moved to push it back under thr table "No thank you Felicia, I'm very tired and would like to go to bed" you declined politely much to the maid's… delight? At least the twitching at the edges of her mouth could be sign of it, maybe.

Felicia lead you back to the main entrance and pointed up to the second floor "Master Doe I have prepared a room for you on the second floor, please take the stairs, go right and straight down to the sleeping quarters, it's the tenth door on your right" she informed you with a bow as you left the dinning area. You were all alone again and very tired, your eyelids began to droop as you dragged your heavy legs up the stairs.

You walked down the hallway to your room, cruising with your hand upon the western wall and yawned with your mouth open as you slowly counted the doors "one…two…three" before you got to four a thunderous bang came from beneath you and caused you to jump to the other wall in surprise "The fuck was that?" You murmured and speed walked to your room as the floorboards creaked under you while pretending to not hear the squeak of the wood behind that was not your own foot steps.

You shoved open the tenth door and practically threw yourself inside, now on the floor and rolled over and kicked the door shut; you allowed yourself to breath evenly again as the adrenaline left your body before three shadows appeared from under the door and upon you 'Shit, am I gonna die?' You thought, too tired to move away.

Time slowed down to a crawl for you, you felt your heart beat in your chestsl with a thump as the door knob wiggled and turned, you put your arm up meekly to shield yourself from the trio but, before the door could open a raised voice was heard from behind the door "Girls what are you doing? The Master is tired and needs to sleep!" It was Felicia's voice! You could here her coming towards the door as the 'girls' scurried off; you breathed a sigh of relief as Felicia knocked upon the door "Master Doe forgive the girls, they were just excited to meet you, goodnight" she said and left, her footsteps getting further and futher away.

Eventually you found the strength to lift yourself to the large bed, kicking your shoes off and throwing your jacket on a chair in the far corner; the rest of your clothing, including your pajama were in your suitcase which was still in the main entrance 'It was just some other maids, you need to calm down John no one here's is gonna attack you' was your last, peaceful thought. As you laid atop the duvet still in your clothes, you began to drift out of consciousness with your head on the pillow and, as yout lids feel over your eyes again, you feel into a peaceful sleep.