After browsing the room, I decide it's time to sleep, so I ring a bell that I guess connects to the kitchen where the usual maids are. A few minutes later, the same maid that helped me find the dorm knocks the door. "Your majesty, you called me?"
"Oh, yes. Come here, please. Help me take this dress off."
"Of course." She starts pulling out all the petticoats and then unleashing my corset. After pulling off my corset, I stay in my chemise.
"Miss, that isn't the chamise you were wearing this morning."
"Oh... that's because I went out to the garden, and I fell in the maze and changed myself." I say. She looks at me, suspiciously.
"Miss would it be okay if I go to my dormitory? I'm exhausted, and you are ready to sleep."
"O...f... of course...can I tell you something?"
"Of course, miss..."
"Please call me Camille," I say, interrupting her very annoyed because at my home all the maids call me by my name except for Amanda, she likes to call me with all the formalities. "Sorry for interrupting, it was coarse."
"Sorry, mi...sorry Camille."
"It's okay. I know you don't know how I like to be called."
"But Miss... I've known you for years." She says.
Then I realize that this is not a joke.
Something is really wrong.
"No! I'm sure I've never seen you before this. I live at the Marquess..." I see her moving her head like I'm crazy. "I'm the marquess' daughter..."
"No miss, you've lived here your whole life."
"B...but today I came..."
"You usually stay at your room when the Duchess organizes parties and that kind of stuff."
"Really..." I say, thinking out loud, "She seems particularly similar to me."
"Mis... sorry. Camille, what are you talking about.?"
"Well... the truth is..." I say about to say the craziest thing to ever told in the world. "Well... you know the maze at the garden?" She sights. "Well, when I entered it, I was the Marquess's daughter, and Sir Alexander was the Prince. I got in trying to make Alexander come in too, but before I realized Alexander was no longer following me... then when I came back to the palace my father didn't recognize me, the Duchess thinks that she's my mother. I followed the lead to not look crazy and..." I see her face, and I'm sure she thinks I'm crazy. "And now you think I'm totally crazy, right?"
"Well... it sounds like you got a really extensive nap, and someone would kill me if I say you're crazy... but apart from that, I still think I can help you... well first let me understand what is happening." She stays in silence for a minute or two. "You are the marquess' daughter?"
"Yes."
"And you are not the princess?"
"Yes."
"But how is that possible?"
"I don't know. The only thing I know is that everything was normal when I entered that maze, but now it isn't." I say. It takes me a few seconds to realize what I just said. "Unless the maze makes people change realities!"
"That might be true." She says, "But how do we find out?"
"I don't know. We can't just go out right now to find out."
"If that's true, Miss...sorry Camille. But you need to continue acting like the princess until we find out what is happening."
"You can help me with that, right?"
"Well... I've known the princess for a few years as I've worked as a maid of the castle. And I know more or less how she acts."
"Then you can help me," I say excitedly.
"But the Duchess could kill me if she finds out."
"What are the possibilities that the Duchess finds out that a girl identical to her daughter isn't her."
"Well..."
"There's none. If you can help me, I can help you go up in the social pyramid." I say already making a plan for the two of us. I go back to my reality, and she could be my lady-in-waiting and marry a wealthy man. "I'll ask the Duchess to make you my lady-in-waiting..."
"Okay, okay. But first of all, you should stop calling the Duchess, Duchess, and start calling her mother or mom when there are no too many people."
"Okay. You can go now. Tomorrow, come here first thing in the morning." I say, and she starts going straight to the door. "Wait!" She stops. "What's your name, girl. If you're going to help me, then I need to know your name."
"Oh, I'm Scarlet Riz." She says and leaves.