Thread: Custom Maid (Collector of Rarities x Nobodysangel)

The life of a maid in a wealthy noble house wasn't by any means a bad one. Other women of such station had much worse lives, as prostitutes or servants to wicked, cruel men who enjoyed inflicting pain more than anything else. This house was, thankfully, not like that. Some girls, Tabitha in particular, one of the upper house maids and personal attendant of Master Alexander, had attracted the notice of the master of the house, but in this respect, Mairead was lucky. she worked as a lower maid, so she tended to the unused rooms, ensuring that they were always kept neat and tidy, ready to be used at a moment's notice should her Master have guests. She had worked hard, been quiet and respectful, drawn no attention to herself in the least. There were other, more exotic girls to suit her Master's tastes, and she herself had been fortunate enough to go unseen and thus unnoticed. It had been whispered of course that her employer had a bit of a penchant for patting bottoms and flipping skirts, but Mairead had no illusions that a plain little sparrow such as her would have been the sort to be noticed in such a way, and furthermore it was the utmost in common low behavior to speculate on the activities of ones betters, and she lectured the little gossips about the maids who had been put out due to being unable to stop being gossipy busybody rumor mills. However, today was a new day, with new chores to be done. It was frequent enough that the master would have business associates over or parties at the house that she always made sure to keep the lower rooms in impeccable order. At the moment, she was busy folding linens and placing them in the downstairs closet, a basket by hers side to go and strip the current linens and hang fresh drapes and tablecloths and sheets for the guest rooms and such. The master of the house rarely came down here during the day, his work keeping him quite busy and only parties and gala events bringing him down to this section of the house, and by that time, she was usually long gone. More bubbly, beautiful, vivacious women were the servers at such events, and to be entirely honest, Mairead doubted that he would notice her even if he did see her, having never found herself to be very special. The other maids had said that he was scouting through the housemaids to find a new pet to replace Tabitha, who had been caught stealing and had been very publicly punished in the stockades and still there if she wasn't mistaken, but it wasn't as if it was a position she'd be chosen for. Mairead wasn't unattractive she was simply not anywhere near as exotic as the colonial girls who had been brought in for the pleasure of the gentlemen of the gentry. A quiet, no-nonsense young Irish girl, she had the long, thick dark brown hair, pale rosy skin and brilliant green eyes of her homeland, but living in England since she was old enough to walk had made her very much an Englishwoman. Softly rounded and blessed with a trim, lushly curved figure which she hid very well under an ankle length, high necked black shapeless dress and starched white apron and cap, but her face, while delicately boned and lovely, was more of a quiet prettiness than the exotic coloring and features of the other maids. And she quite liked it that way. At twenty six years old, she'd spent the last fourteen years in this house, first as a scullery maid in the kitchens, then working her way up to a lower house maid. She'd worked hard to get where she was and it was on her own merit alone, and not how well she spread her thighs for her employer. Washing and dusting, polishing and laundering, baking and mending and sewing, It was a quiet, sometimes dull existence, but dull wasnt so bad when compared to how much worse it could be. It seemed only fitting that Mairead Aislinn Shaunessy would live out her professional life as she lived her personal life quiet, hard working and unnoticed, floating through her days and nights with the quiet, unflappable pride of a young woman who knew her place in the world and was content with it.