The palace was bustling with activities. I could hear the voices or the bead maids and butlers giving orders and trying to make sure everything was in place and up to the queen’s standards. I was in my room being dressed up like a doll at the queen’s orders also. “You needed to see just how fast the maids were walking” Jess laughed as she tried to detangle my curls. “The queen had promised them their family’s head on a platter if she ever saw them gossiping about the royal family again” I looked at Jess through the mirror, she had an animated look on her face but yet she was smiling. “Serves them right for not doing what they ought to but instead gossiping about what does not concern them” she says. I nod my head. I disliked gossipers and I have noticed a few maids that would let their