<div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/21/Charlotte.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Charlotte “Charlie” Cooper</span></span><br/><strong>Current Location:</strong>The Stables<br/><strong>With:</strong>J.F. Henshaw and Lord Richard Fowler<br/><strong>When:</strong>Day 1, before dinner<br/><br/>Charlie couldn’t believe this was happening.  Maybe Zeus had kicked her in the head and she’d wake up in her cot to the curses of the head groom. Or maybe she really had gone daft…<br/><br/>But the warm fluid struck her face, landing on her tongue before she closed her mouth, brought home the reality of her predicament.  She closed her eyes and felt it splash on her lids and weigh heavily on her eyelashes.  It rolled down her cheeks towards her chin but she caught it with her fingers before it could land on her uniform.<br/><br/>She grabbed her cap off of the floor with her free hand and tried to place it back on her head.  Even at the cockeyed angle it gave her a little protection, or so she thought.<br/><br/>She couldn’t bath in the main, even upon J.F.’s instructions. She still had work to do.  The horses needed tending, there was water to carry and feed to check.  But the biggest reason was she just couldn’t bath, remove her clothes in the house.<br/><br/>“Sir…I.. cannot….” She said quietly to J.F. still on her knees in front of him.  Her words, it seemed, were lost in the conversation between the gentlemen.<br/><br/>The stranger’s command was easier to obey.  Although she wouldn’t dirty Zeus’ water there was a drawn bucket nearby that would do for her. She rose and moved carefully to the water, eyes never leaving the floor.  Secretly, she hoped their discussion would distract them long enough to forget about her but as the bone caught between two dogs, that didn’t seem likely.<br/><br/>Kneeling down again, now next to the bucket of clean, cold water, Charlie pulled a worn handkerchief from her pocket and quietly began to wash her hands and face, and wipe her tears.