Jazelle was shocked.<br/>Her father had come home after being away for a week and he tells her, out of the blue, that she's going to go play servant girl to some beast in the woods? What was he playing at? He couldn't really be serious, he couldn't really mean it.<br/>But as she looked into his eyes, she saw that he did mean it.<br/><br/>Slowly, with great pain and heartache on both ends, she and her father packed her few possesions. He loaded up the horse for her and gave her directions. They hugged tightly and held on to each other for several minutes before she rode away at a gallop, heading for the forest, and then the manor, to find her new fate.<br/><hr/><br/>She pulled up the big grey horse and looked at the huge house through the rotted iron gate. The house was old, covered in vines and moss, most of it decrepit and falling apart. The yard was overgrown, weeds having taken over the garden and the lawn, the pond and fountain overgrown with moss and mildew, the water filled with algae.<br/>She dismounted and pushed open the heavy gate. She led her horse into the yard and released him, approaching the house. She stepped up to the heavy, solid wooden door and pulled back the huge knocker, releasing a loud BOOM that echoed through the house.