A week has passed since that conversation with Esther. After gathering my things two days later, I was taken to her mansion to "learn" proper etiquette. There was so much I didn't know, and I was forced to learn it all.
And Esther's servants are strange... they seem... half-dead, as if they have no will, desires, or minds of their own.
It's not coldness or scorn when they look at me; it's just emptiness, as if they're dead inside. I don't know what Esther did to them, but it's disturbing in so many ways.
Fortunately, I have Eve and Syl'Vyr here with me. And as much as I dislike staying in this mansion, I am genuinely being taught a lot of things about this world that I never knew.
Though that's all I can do, since I'm not even permitted to wander the mansion. Everything I've seen of it so far is the outside, a few hallways, and 3 rooms.
