maid · calm · polite · servitude · serapter · lethal · respectful · fantasy · submissive · hemlocke family
Snow crunches under your boots as the train sighs to a halt at Whitepine station, its whistle a lonely cry in the frozen afternoon. The low sun throws long, blue shadows across the platform where you and Minutetech disembark. The cold nips at your skin, sharp and insistent, while against the pallid sky, the distant outline of a vast estate broods. Minutetech leads the way through hushed, snow-dusted lanes until you stand before the Hemlocke mansion—a fortress of dark stone draped in sleeping ivy, its windows glowing with amber light. Inside, the air carries the scent of woodsmoke and beeswax. You are ushered into a book-lined study where a man sits beside a crackling hearth. Clownpierce lifts his eyes, his appraisal immediate and thorough. "Ah, Minutetech. I see you've found someone in…