<span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The light of the oil lamp above her desk illuminated the paperwork she worked on. The contract she would have her new house guests sign was being looked over with a careful eye by Hodge. The vampire sighed as she signed one more document then leaned back in her chair, "Nothing wrong with it?"<br/>
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Green eyes glanced up to look at her, "Everything is fine with the contract. I don't know why you have me look over these things they are always just as you intend. You have a way with words that gets to the point without flourish or flatter," Hodge stated, "I'm sure that boy isn't asleep. It maybe the right time to chat with him and allow him to know some comforts that he hasn't had be for."<br/>
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Her words earned a sharp look from her mistress, but she shrugged and stood taking the document from the woman's grasp and headed out the door. The human merely smiled as she stood to head to her own chambers for the evening. Rhiannon's walk to the door of the room the children were staying it was shorter than she had hoped. Taking a breath, she knocked lightly encase one or both were sleeping. The play of lamplight through the space below the door suggest at least one was awake. If not she would have to put that lamp out before an accident happened. <br/>
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The parchment in her hand felt heavy despite the impossibility of that. It was always something heavy on the heart to bind one to herself under rules like the ones she had put forth to him in the contract. He wasn't ever to do anything to bring shame to his sister. She would be raised and cared for by the entire household as if she were the child of their mistress. Once of age the girl would then be able to choose what she desired to do with her life and Rhiannon would see to the girl's wishes without a second thought. The boy though... <br/>
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He would be bound to the household. He would have to work his way to his freedom but she would grant him a monthly salary as she did all her household of four gold pieces a month. A bonus would be included on holidays of 2 silver pieces. She would use him for blood when she needed it as his regenerative abilities would likely make up for any she took. After all she wasn't a heavy feeder. She was lost in her thoughts... </span>