I carried the last of the linens out of the guest room. It had been a long day of changing sheets and replacing all the candles in the castle. My hands were sore and I barely even considered how I was going to be able to wrap Petal around my fingers. I did have a sense that she had the heart of a pervert but also a virginal one. Probably hadn’t even masterbated much enough to know the good ways to do it.
I beat the dust out of a duvet in the back yard while the others attended to the same tasks. The most abandoned of the rooms had thankfully not been filled with moth bitten disasters. Though I was sure that Patricia was going to go into winter mode soon. Unless the king actually started to invite other nobles to come and see the court. Covering everything with thick burlap to protect it from dust and neglect through the slower months. My arms worked hard as I dueled with my durable opponent. It absorbed my blows with each swing.
Desperate for some relief I looked back and forth. I was alone for now. I pulled out my giggleweed cigarette and slipped off into the hedges.
“-were you?” It was a deep, strong voice. One I recognized. That was sir Terrance, he had a speech just before I was sent on leave.
“I told you I just got lost.” Grumped… Princess Petal? “I went down into the service quarters to get some time alone. I’m sick of being smothered and watched all the time. It is of no consequence in any case. I came back. But why are you here? You were supposed to be recovering and relaxing after the choosing.”
Did she go back into the servant’s halls when I left her? I mean, that would be impressive but still. Was she looking for me? Snitch me out? Tell them some servant was trying to push them into acting unlike a noble.
Terrance huffed and I could imagine him crossing his arms. “Your majesty. You were supposed to stay with your guard while I was out of the castle. There are proper ways to go about things. If you wanted a tour of the servant’s halls we could have arranged it.”
Guard? I saw no one around her when she was in the guest wing. Did I… kidnap a princess by accident maybe? Was I in deeper shit than I thought. Shoes echoed on cobblestones inside the hedges were the two were speaking. Wait, is Terrance talking to the Princess without an escort? Isn’t that what they should be worried about. I mean, Terrance is an exemplar of honor so maybe not.
“Sir Terrance, I am perfectly capable of being on my own for a time. I’m not a child. There is a lot that I go about doing that doesn’t need me being watched over all the time. There are more important things that others should be going and doing instead of hovering around me all the time.” Petal sounded frustrated, and a little more manly than before.
“It is a guard’s duty to watch over their charges. That is literally the point of our lives. I wouldn’t be a Royalsworn if I wasn’t ready to stand in front of a blade and take it for a nobble. How can we do that when you slip away from the people assigned to you?”
“Argghhhhh, It is beneath me to worry about such things.”
Terrance growled loudly enough to reach my ears through the hedge, “You weren’t even found with your sword!? What would you have done should one of the staff come at you with a blade?!”
Sword? Why would a princess need a sword? Why would a random maid go after such a sweet girl with a knife anyway? Terrance is flying off the handle.
“No member of the staff would ever think about raising their hands against a noble. You are worrying over nothing. I was found, I was returned, and that is the end of the story. So, go back to your time of leave and stop worrying about it. Now, if this conversation is done then I wish to return for dinner.” Princess Petal’s shoes clicked and I scurried over to the exit of the hedge and ducked behind a corner looking at where they would emerge while hiding in the shadows.
Princess Petal, in a man’s garb stepped out of the hedge. It was the royal family’s colors, with her hair pulled in a low tail reaching down her back to her coat tails. The make up was washed off her face, making her even more androgynous. Her frilly cuffs were pulled forward and puffed up as Sir Terrance stepped out from behind her.
“Allguard, you have to be more careful. Especially when I’m not around.”
Allguard?! PRINCE ALLGUARD! My eyes bored into the back of Petal- no Allguard’s head as he flipped HIS hair and blushed prettily at the attention of his knight. I didn’t just shove myself into some unknown princess’s life. Getting their crystal data… I practically kidnapped the prince?! I’M SO FUCKED IF HE SEES ME!
I tucked against the hedge and my heart started to race a thousand miles an hour. My breath was ragged as I waited and listened to their feet retreating off into the distance. I felt my mind shutting down as everything was hammered back into me.
Prince Allguard was running around the castle in a dress. Didn’t complain about being shoved into a chambermaid’s dress after that as well. Bent and followed directions willingly and without issue. That’s why he wanted to return to the Prince’s room. It was HIS room. If he was caught in that dress, he would have been shunned. The rumors of a prince being a deviant would have spread faster than a fire through dry grass.
It would have been the talk of the town in a matter of hours. No guard would have kept their mouth shut. And only I and the Prince knew what really happened. God if he wanted to he could just find out who I was and have me executed on sight.
No, then he would have to admit why I was someone that needed to die. The royal family wouldn’t just take a handwave about it. Plus… plus doesn’t that make this easier?
Men were far easier to please and manipulate than a woman. Instead of worrying about him killing me off to keep his secret couldn’t I just… blackmail him like I do with Patricia? Tell him that he is going to take me out of this God forsaken city and be his concubine somewhere else? Princes did that, take concubines before marriage. I could fulfill his wildest dreams with the things I could do.
And he had been so pliable. So willing to please and be dominated. I could imagine it now. Him, tied up and hanging in ropes while I fucked him with a rod strapped to me like Lady Silverstein. No, that would be too much. I had to ease him into it. Had to walk him down that path to relying on me for more and more pleasure.
But how was I going to do that? I didn’t have the chance to sneak him into the halls and hide him away in some corner for a few hours to push well beyond his limits for pleasure until his mind was on the brink of breaking. If it was Petal I would have had him in my clutches. But now, Petal didn’t exist. My crystal chimed.
Mistress,
I think the prince has negotiated my stay in the house. So there is no need for you to sneak me out of the home and I will be escorted properly. Thank you for your assistance.
Princess Petal
I looked at the message and felt my temper starting to grow strained. No, I wouldn’t let this all slip through my fingers. I would have to take action. I would make sure that my future was going to be sealed as a concubine. Worm my way into the marriage that he eventually would have and fulfill all my wishes using his wife and him. He was feminine enough that he could be my type. Clumsy enough that it would be easy to lead him into the depths I could bring him.
Make him ask me for permission for even seeing his own wife in the carnal ways. So that even the thought of another person would make him question everything about our relationship. Make him dependent on me. A cock prison maybe. Keep the key? No, too soon. Some hand stuff to start with.
Starting to think of a plan I lit my cigarette and took a deep breath of the relaxing smoke into my lungs and closed my eyes so it washed away the doubts that were starting to build into my mind. Telling me to be careful. But this would be my chance. Instead of worming my way into a princess’s bed and getting them taken care of slipping into this little slip of a prince’s graces would be child’s play.
My mind took all the pieces together and laid them all out. I had the beginnings of an in with this target. He didn’t know that I knew he dressed as a woman. He thought that I would just fade into nothing. That I would be washed away without any worries and he was wrong.
My mouth twisted into a smile as I snuffed the second half of my cigarette out and tucked it back into my apron pack. Plucking a sprig of mint I started to chew on it to release all the oils and freshen my breath to wipe away the smell of the strong weed. Crushing a second sprig I rubbed the smell of the oil all over my sleeves and hands to give myself a much better scent.
Rolling my shoulders I went back to the task of beating the dust out of the bedding that was slowly bring brought to me. I would have to keep some stamina for what I was going to do. Maybe I could get a little bit of an easier duty but that would be leaning too much into seeking favor from Lady Patricia when we were supposed to keep each other at an arm’s length. Soon enough though I wouldn’t need her. I would be in the beginnings of a prince’s collection of women. I would take his first for myself.
Taking a deep breath I finally saw some more women coming to help beat the dust out of these blankets and get back to putting things back together. Their whispers slipping from my mind as I put together the entire plan I would need to accomplish tonight.
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