Chapter 16: Her Handmaid
The morning breeze blew in her room excessively, Poppy could feel herself freezing like she was thrown in the sea naked, she woke up in shock and her heart ached in pain.
Looking around, she saw the open windows and the heavy velvet curtains shifted to the side, sunlight peeked through them and lit her room up. Someone had been in her room as she remembered the windows were closed shut last night, looking around the room, she expected to see someone but found none.
"Good morning" a voice called.
"Ahhh!!!" she yelled. Turning to her side, she saw a woman standing at the end of the bed.
Her onyx bone straight hair blew like the wind and her black sleeveless dress did the same. Her tan skin reminded her of Gydrin and her smile looked beautiful like her hazel eyes.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" Poppy asked with a sluggish voice.
"My name is Adira said I've been assigned to take care of you"
"By who?"
"By the high Lord himself"
Poppy could only stare at the woman, she somehow looked suspectable but could only put that aside.
"How did you get in?"
""Through the door?..." Adria's expression read 'where else's.
"And when did you come in?"
"While you were asleep, I came to prepare your bath"
"So, your the one that opened the windows right?"
"Yes, you were sweating and shaking too much so I thought I'd opened them to let the wind in and cool you down, and it did".
A moment passed away and Adira asked.
"Do you want to take you bath now? it's hot and ready"
"Yes. I could use that"
"Okay then, let's go before it runs cold"
Poppy swung her legs down from the bed, her legs weighted like mountains as she tried to walk. 'How heavy they weigh' she thought
"Don't worry, we'll fix that as well'
"You can read my mind?"
"Yes, all Faes can read minds"
"Ohhh...."
They got to the bathroom and it looked exquisite, everything was in white and gold and Poppy couldn't help but look in admiration. Even then tub where she would bath was white with gold taps. On the shelves stood fancy soaps and perfumes and she gawked at them.
"Milady?" and she was brought back to reality.
"Yes?"
"Your clothes?"
"My clothes, what happened to them?"
"You have to take them off.."
"Take them off?"
"Yes"
"In front of you?"
"Yes"
Poppy couldn't deny that she didn't want to, yes indeed she urgently needed a bath but she wasn't going to take them off in her very before.
"I can't"
"Why not? we're both women"
"Yes... but are you going to bath me?" curiosity lit in her voice.
"Yes I will"
"No don't thank you. I can do it myself"
"You can't, there some wounds and dry dirt you won't wash off well. Let my help you."
"Okay" she accepted with pure reluctance. Pulling off the night dress, she dropped it inside a woven basket by her side and walked towards the tub. Inside it was hot water with lots of steam. She entered in, hoping it won't be too hot. Surprisedly, it felt warm and the water scented of flowers and perfume; mainly poppies. She couldn't deny that she love them very much.
"You like them don't you?" Adira asked as she applied lotion on her body.
"Yes I do, I love poppies."
"Well, I realized that since you scent like then".
"I do?"
"Yes, you do"
"How do you know that?" she as as Adira came to rub more lotions on her arms.
"We Faes have very heighted senses. We can hear, see and smell from far and can feel the most things that the human skin can't feel"
"Okay then"
Poppy kept quiet and while enjoying the sweet and peaceful bath. Adria scrubbed her body with the pink soft sponge and then rinsed her body with the warm water. Adria wrapped her with the white bathrobe and they went back into the room. Poppy sat down in front of the dresser and looked at her reflection. Her bruises were gone and she felt no ache anywhere on her body, some of her red pepper hair stuck to her cheeks due to its wetness her blue eyes looked dull with lack of life in them. Adira came with a towel and dried her hair with it. She then applied body lotions and cosmetics to Poppy's skin and took care of her hair as well.
"You look really beautiful without makeup, oh! men will fall hard" Adria told Poppy.
"Thank you" Poppy replied as her cheeks coloured a bright pink.
"Your welcome, let's get a dress that matches your cheeks" she added and Poppy blushed the more. Adira went to the wardrobe and brought out a gauzy slim v neck dress with a slit.
"Is this what I'll wear?"
"Yes, this is what Fae women wear here"
Poppy didn't like what she was seeing but if this was what they wore, then she had no choice. Putting the cloth on, she realized it's not as transparent as it looked yet she was naked beneath it.
"Put this on, between your legs" Adira handed over to her a small write clothes with three big holes.
"What's this" she asked while raising it up to show Adira.
"Underwear, to make us not feel too naked. Not that we bother though" she smiled at her. Poppy wore it feeling like how Adria had told her.
"Comfortable?"
"Yes" she nodded slowly.
"Now, let's go for breakfast!"
"Breakfast?"
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