Chapter 29: Accepting the quest

Lydia stiffened in astonishment the moment Ave hugged her and even apologized to her, something she had never done in all the years Lydia had been assigned to her since they were just eleven years old.

Though Lydia's mother had also come from Gina and had worked as a head palace maid, Lydia had been enslaved along with Selene in the Pendragon palace, just like all the young children taken from the kingdom. But when Selene got lucky enough to be taken under the Empress's wing, Lydia had been picked to serve her. Since then, Lydia had sworn her loyalty to the princess. Despite the fact that Selene could be mean at times, she never let Lydia starve or do hard labor and would instead make the other maids do it, allowing Lydia to stay by her side at all times.