The sudden sound of the commanding yet feminine voice clearly cased a reaction in the frantic girl. From her vantage towering over the girl it was easy to see her jump, startled at the sudden noise. directly following that the kneeling half-elf's shoulders slumped at the same time her spine went rigid. It looked like she was tensing to absorb a coming blow. Railynn was in fact. It was instinct at this point. Insults were not the only abuse that she suffered and she very clearly flinched. The words struck her like a fist and Rai cowered. She knew who was behind her. It had to be the headmistress and her reputation preceded her. There were horror stories that had even reached the maid's ears and now she was trapped AND she had broke some of her property. Shit, shit, shit!!! Why did it have to happen to her.<br/><br/>There was a moment of terror when her brain screamed at her to answer the question but she froze. Was the question rhetorical? Would she make things worse my answering or by her silence. "Th-there was an accident H-Headmistress. I only sought to correct my mistake." Her voice trembled, but was clear and loud enough to hear. She took a chance and let the question about her use of magic go. It seemed more rhetorical, and Rai felt her face flush red in shame, all the way to the tips of her not round yet not pointed ears. Even though she had been reminded almost constantly of her shortcomings throughout her life it still stung to have them pointed out. Still it was the woman who ran the whole academy so she simply kept her head bowed respectfully while she heard the taller slim woman move closer. When the hem of that robe and the short heels came into view, Railynn swallowed the anxious lump in her throat. This was it.<br/><br/>The command was issued, up... as if she were some performing animal. It was degrading but her body seemed to respond without her input. She knelt up and her green-eyed gaze swept up over the exquisite material of the robes until her eyes met the headmistress'. Even under the effect of the compulsion she still cringed at the sight of the look in those eyes. Rai's heart started to pound in her chest and tiny beads of perspiration dotted her forehead. The moments under the weight of that gaze, Weighing her and finding her lacking, had the cute half-breed squirming in her place on the floor. What little colour she had drained from Railynn's face, making her freckles stand out even more as the silence stretched out. She wanted to run but could not even manage to take her eyes off of the headmistress and her stern, judging gaze.<br/><br/>the tirade seemed even more cutting after the silence and the young maid was cowering by the time it ended. She had no idea what to say to smooth the imperious woman's discontent and a few times her mouth opened, stumbling over a few syllables before closing again in a seemingly futile attempt to regroup. "H-Headmistress... I am... forever in your debt for taking me in and I o-only wish to repay that with honest labors. The vase," Her hand shoved her hair out of her face again, only to have it fall almost exactly where it had been. "The vase was an accident. I bumped the pedestal and it fell. I did not mean to. Please it was an accident, not a crime." The thought of being held by the authorities over a simply accident was crazy. It was the mention of the arcane arts that had her stomach nervously rolling. "N-No Headmistress... I have not paid tuition. and I have not observed class, as per my agreement. I just read a book and figured it out." green eyes flicked to the partly mended vase "Sort of. Please forgive me, I only thought  to learn the simple cantrip to make me more efficient."<br/><br/>All through her mumbled apology the fear had been welling up and it looked as though the poor little thing was about to faint or perhaps cry.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>