Akihiko just stared out the window, Val was speaking ninety to nothing about everything and nothing and the girl was just silent, tense, and looking down. He sighed, then blinked as they passed through the gates to his mansion.<br/><br/>When the carriage pulled up, Val was out first and Akihiko picked the girl up bridal style again and left the carriage. He kept her in his arms as he passed through the entrance doors and to the servant quarters.<br/><br/>He ignored the "Welcome home, Akihiko-sama. Welcome back, Valestial-sama."<br/><br/>When he reached the servant quarters, the door was closed and it looked like he was going to try to walk through the door when it opened and the person behind it stepped aside and bowed. "Welcome home, Akihiko-sama."<br/><br/>He nodded to her, "Alyss, I need this girl bathed, dressed, and informed of any duties you can put her to work on. I wish to be briefed after dinner." He placed her down in a chair as Val finally caught up to him.<br/><br/>"Aki~ You're too nice, man. Hey Alyss-baa-chan." Val said.<br/><br/>Alyss was a wise old woman and was at one time Akihiko's nurse and babysitter. He trusted her the most out of all of his servants, which were actually few in number.<br/><br/>"Welcome back, Valestial-sama. And it will be done, Akihiko-sama." She bowed to them as they left the room.<br/><br/>"Val are you staying for dinner or do you need to head out?"<br/><br/>"I need to go because father wants to see me in an hour." They stopped at the entrance hall.<br/><br/>"Merry meet and merry meet again, Val."<br/><br/>"To you as well, Aki. See you tomorrow or the next." With that Val left and Akihiko went straight to his study and worked until dinner.<br/>_____________________________________________<br/><br/>Alyss will inform Mai of her duties: cleaning, washing, weeding.<br/>- that Alyss was his nursemaid<br/>- will ask for Mai's name and age and race (bc Aki didn't pay attention)<br/>- will inform Mai that Aki is strict and firm and will never raise a hand against any of the servants unless it happened infront of an audience (even if it's one person and sometimes even if it's Val depending on what it was) bc it would demean his position<br/>- will inform her that there are only two cooks, one maid, one butler, two gardeners, two security, one stableman, Alyss, and now her.<br/>- that Aki is very independent and does a lot of things himself that they should do for him, but he doesn't like it (aka bathing, changing, pouring an extra cup of tea/coffee, etc)<br/><br/>Alyss is a sweet old lady who doesn't go out when there are guests bc Aki couldn't handle it if he had to hurt her bc of them - not like he likes to hurt the others either its just they are younger and all understand and wouldn't want Alyss to be hurt either.<br/><br/>Anything I miss?