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Hazel

I can barely hear my footsteps on the thick plush carpet as I follow behind the austere talla butler’s uniform

A real freaking butler’s unifor a butler’s unifor ahead of me like it’s totally normal

He’s reed straight andthin, and when I approached hi He looked estured for me to folloithout a word

I have no clue if he has a British accent or what, and I’ to find out

I think about asking hi about this hallway Paintings hang on the walls, paintings that look vaguely familiar It’s like they’re common prints you see online all the time, except these look real I’m tempted to reach out and touch one

Except I don’t want to get fired on my first day at my mysterious new job

I answered a Craigslist ad I don’t norot desperate and shot off an e a personal assistant with basic duties like fetching , but it was the salary that caught my eye

Eighty thousand a year That’s, like, an unreal araduated with an art degree I thought I’d be painting professionally by now, except that’s not super realistic

Instead, I’ so, so about, to become the personal assistant to… somebody

Nobody told , which is totally weird in retrospect

This whole process eird I sent an e with a headshot (the first indication that so picture) and my resume I heard back an hour later, and was invited for an interview The woht I bombed it until she offered me the job on the spot

Show up here at six in theon Monday, she said, and the job is all yours

Sweet, I thought at the tihty thousand a year I mean, it’s an early start, but I can handle it for that kind of money