The corner of Miya's eye twitched when the motherly maid equated 'getting along' with 'getting it on,' but she took a deep breath, clenched her teeth and managed a straight face. "It's not like it's any of my bussiness if they're... like that, but there should be standards when it comes to service! You don't- you can't- that's just not stuff you do where the Mistress can see you!" she finally managed, growing a bit red in the face.
edited 10th Jun '11 9:51:40 AM by Alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)SHina started reciting The Divine Comedy from the book she had..
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear. "
As she continued reading, Hina's recital became more bombastic and dramatic. Occasionally, she would stop to ask Tara what she knew of the poet Vergil or of Christ the Savior before throwing herself even more fully into the reading.
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant MorrisonAkemi twitched. This girl was...Stupid doesn't seem the right word. Impossibly naive, maybe. Overly loving? Because, really, that's kind of ridiculous. "I agree with Miya. You should not be getting into each other that much in front of your employer and your co-workers unless you work in a brothel or something..."
Akemi (What Mistress Wants...) Spirit: 20 Stress: 0 Favor: 1Nako chuckled a little as she saw Miya getting all flustered in her response... still Akemi's response merited a little bit more seriousness "There, there, it´s alright, I understand. Chiyo-sama doesn´t seem to mind too much, but nevertheless it´s behaviour that´s causing some concern. We shall go to kindly request that Tara-chan and Hina-chan be more careful with their displays from now on"
Still I think it was just a spur of the moment thing... but even so the girl´s fears must be addressed properly
edited 10th Jun '11 12:27:22 PM by daltar
From the pink of her cheeks Miya's agitation was still simmering, but she gave Nako a curt nod. "Alright; shall we go find the others, then?" she prompted, gesturing down the hall by lifting the tip of her cudgel slightly. I wonder who we shall encounter first; Mila and Mistress's brother, discussing the Mistress's work, Tara cowering before Hina's bibilomaniacal fervor, or the sound of Ayame and the Misress making the 'beast with two backs' in the Mistress's room...
edited 10th Jun '11 12:23:34 PM by Alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)SHina blinked. The concept of this huge mansion having a library hadn't occured to her. She gently put down the book she was holding and gave Tara a determined look. "I know one way we can find out!" she said and grabbed Tara by the hand. "Let's find mistress and ask her!" at a brisk pace she began dragging Tara towards Chiyo's room. "Erm... where is she again?"
edited 10th Jun '11 1:04:22 PM by Malkavian
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant Morrison"I haven't had a chance to wander around the mansion much yet," Miya admitted with a helpless shrug. Thus far, most of her time in the mansion had been spent with the Mistress, but she always busied herself with chores or... other things, when the Mistress retired to her room to work or sleep.
Likewise, her own small personal room was near the baths, and thus very convenient and simple to find, so she hadn't really needed to wander much. Still, she knew the scents of the Mistress and the other maids; she was confident that she'd be able to find them if she got close enough. "Perhaps we should try going deeper into the house?" she suggested.
edited 10th Jun '11 1:16:45 PM by Alhazred23
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)S"Here, follow me." said Tara, taking the lead. She headed out. Whenever there was an intersection, she paused, looking both ways, before taking one. What she was doing wasn't looking for the mansion's study; what she was actually doing was trying to find the route that felt the less forboding to her senses.
It was a technique that rarely took her by the shortest path, and it wouldn't always take her where she wanted to go, but it would often take her where she needed to go.
Luck [3] * Dice [2] = 6. Where do we end up?
Miya followed along behind the other two maids, her head tilting left and right to take in more of the mansion as they walked. It really was an unreasonably huge estate for the small number of people that dwelled within, she thought. Her own family compound was larger, and had much larger grounds in terms of land, but three generations of her family lived there; the shrine always felt lively, but the Mistress's estate... well, it seemed more than a little lonely to the vermilion-haired girl. Maybe that was why the mistress hired so many maids - and why she let them get away with such... behavior.
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)SHina was vaguely worried. This was a big house, and Tara didn't seem like she exactly knew where she was going and she could swear they had passed the same door three times. "Umm... miss Tara, are you sure you know where you're going? I think I saw something important back the other way."
edited 10th Jun '11 5:28:22 PM by Malkavian
"Everyone wants an answer, don't they?... I hate things with answers." — Grant MorrisonReiza nodded his head slowly, moving to close his door as the maid left. "Thank you for checking up on me" He said politely, shutting the door before shuffling over to the table once more.
As the group of three found their way to Mistress Chiyo's room Miya caught wind of a...unsettling scent coming from behind the doorway. It is easy to distinguish the scent as sexual in nature, all there is now to do is for the maid to choose whether to make the others aware or leave them in the dark. No sound could be heard from the other room minus the sound of soft breathing.
Hina sees a group of three maids standing in front of a room door, their attention focused away from her and the cat-spirit. Tara must have taken a wrong turn, her sense of foreboding saving them from walking straight towards them.
"To fan the flames of war is to burn the land away"Miya's long-legged strides began to slow considerably as the trio of supplicants approached the end of the hallway, and beads of sweat began trickling down her neck as the scent of feminine arousal grew steadily stronger until they finally stood before the apparent source, a set of doors that Nako proclaimed to be Chiyo-sama's room. "I- on second thought, we should speak to the other maids first!" Miya announced in a voice that was paradoxically both firm and commanding, but also quiet enough that it might not be heard within.
The leather-clad maid raised one hand to cover a small cough and her increasingly red cheeks. "After all, the Mistress doesn't like to be disturbed when she's working," she explained, looking away from the door. Normally Miya's curiosity would have tempted her to linger in order to perhaps find out who Chiyo-sama was taking to her bed, but she could detect no scent of man on the air, which meant that the Mistress was probably just enjoying some 'alone time,' and that certainly wasn't something that they needed to stick around for.
H:44F(8/30)S|G:19F(0/10)SAkemi raised an eyebrow. On one hand, Miya has a point; she didn't want to interrupt her mistress while she was working, and she looked like she was working. On the other hand, she really wanted to complain about the other two maids and see them punished, something she couldn't do herself without getting her mistress mad. Decisions, decisions....
Akemi shrugged and walked to the door. "If she's busy, she's busy and we'll come back later. If not, we can talk to her now." She said evenly as she knocked rather loudly. "Mistress? Are you in there?"
Akemi (What Mistress Wants...) Spirit: 20 Stress: 0 Favor: 1

"Well I think that it's great that my fellow co-workers are getting along so well" Nako said, once again placing her hand on her cheek as she gave out a kind smile "However it might be good sense to remind the girls not to act like that in front of guests... and if it bothers Miya then you surely have the right to request that they try to avoid acting in that manner in your presence"