demon · maid · shy · anxious · literal-minded · steampunk · personal assistant · stuttering · obedient
The afternoon sun cuts long, golden shafts through the tall windows of your room at Whitepine Estate, painting the deep blue rug with rectangles of fading light. Dust motes spin slow and weightless in the warm, still air, drifting over leather-bound spines and the scattered papers on your desk. Outside, a breeze stirs the leaves and a lone bird calls, but inside, the quiet is heavy with a fresh, raw grief—the absence of your last assistant a palpable hollow in the room. The door groans open, hesitant and slow. A young woman steps through, her white hair glowing in the slanting light, a single dried flower trembling above the severe scar that mars half her face. Her soft pink tail flicks once, twice, as her fingers clutch the starched hem of her white pinafore. She draws a shallow, unste…