After falling asleep, the nightly clearish gray smoke became much thicker, forming a dark haze around Rolf. The smoke rapidly began to engulf Rolf, as if his body was an endless void, his body began devouring the smoke as fast as it could, causing Rolf to begin tossing and turning violently in his bed. For who knows how long, Rolf's body endlessly absorbed the smoke and eventually it dissipated leaving a sweaty Rolf, panting heavily on his bed.
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Hours later before the crack of dawn.
Within Rolf's room a tall slender figure was hovering over the sleeping Rolf, making a quick movement, its hand pinched Rolf's nose shut, and covered his mouth with the other.
*GASP*
Thrashing around in bed trying to breathe, Rolf awoke to see an old man with a professional look, wearing a tux, white gloves, and a clean looking mustache standing beside his bed.
"Up and at 'em boy, we are already 5 minutes late for your training", William, the head butler, had informed Rolf.
Taking time to recollect his thoughts, Rolf had finally understood that yesterday was not a dream… and that today would be his first day in butler training.
"Oh…yes…", getting up, Rolf then said "Are there certain clothes I need to wear?"
"No, your regular clothes will be fine for today, your uniform is already in your new quarters, where you will be living indefinitely from now on", William responded, further destroying what little hope Rolf had towards this situation.
After putting on his clothes Rolf turned around to see that his bed was professionally made and the previous sheets in William's arms ready for washing. Although Rolf was confused and stunned at the same time, he didn't bother commenting since he knew that he too, would have to learn how to do that at some point.
Following William out of "his" room, Rolf was led towards the servants quarters located near a large kitchen, and washroom. Passing by the kitchen, Rolf saw large sacks of vegetables, other food assortments, and a chef duo. Next, was the washroom which looked much more boring but had significantly more people -compared to the kitchen- hand washing clothes and taking them outside the side door in a corner of the room to hang them out to dry.
Finally arriving at the servant's rooms, William took Rolf to a room in the corner.
"This is your new room, you are responsible for cleaning it and ensuring it passes my weekly inspection, and don't expect me to be lenient with the inspection, I take it very seriously", William said with a fierce gleam in his eye.
He continued, "You may go and get familiar with it for roughly 10 minutes, and be sure to put on your new uniform that's in your closet", finishing what little words William had for Rolf, he turned and left, leaving a speechless Rolf, to figure out what to do after those 10 minutes had passed.
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Entering the room the first thing that Rolf had seen was a small single sized bed in the middle of the right side of the room against its empty walls. Directly across the door where Rolf was standing next to, was a single framed window with clean, yet antique looking curtains. Beside the window on the left, was a door, strangely enough, it seemed to fit aesthetically there, yet didn't seem to have a purpose. After panning through the room, Rolf only noticed a fireplace across from the bed and a singular chair and table near the dresser.
Deciding to check out the door, Rolf unlocked and opened it, only to his surprise, there was only a wall behind it. However, before closing it Rolf felt a draft near his feet, looking down he noticed that the wall behind the door left 2 feet (60cm) uncovered, enough for Rolf to enter and exit it quite smoothly. Closing the door and locking it, Rolf began towards the dresser, seeing as he's lost enough time pondering about what that "useless" door was for, he took out his uniform to get dressed.
Somehow managing to put on the butler suit all nice and tidy, he stood up only for the door to be swung wide open by William.
"Ah, good, you managed by yourself, now, come, come, it's time to teach you the basics and schedule for us house servants, afterall, you'll be with us indefinitely", after sparring Rolf a glance, William turned around once again and began walking towards their next destination.
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Hours after dusk, Rolf had finally returned to his room.
His training was truly rough, every time he messed up, cleaning, dusting, or gave a wrong answer he was smacked by William's teaching stick. Furthermore Rolf also learned that he no longer had time to eat and that meals were placed into servants' rooms for them to eat only when they were free, which was usually at night. Rolf learned a few hours ago that after Butler training and doing his daily services he was to spar with Grant for 2-3 hours each night before going to bed, and not only that but Rolf's bracers were replaced and increased in weight to 7kgs (15lbs) for maximized training since he won't be outside all day. Luckily, enough for him, Grant gave him extra tonics for him to survive throughout the day as well as use when he lacked sustenance.
After washing up and getting ready for bed Rolf lit the fireplace and added wood, before going to bed, Rolf decided to open the door and window slightly in order to get some circulation in his room since he didn't trust the chimney enough and didn't want to feel stuffy at night.
After falling asleep however, the nightly clearish gray haze had officially turned into a more solid gray haze. As Rolf's body began to hungrily devour it, through the door and window, more flooded in and into Rolf's orifices and stomach. Overpowering the fire and circulation, the smoke devoured the flame and shot it towards Rolf! Instead of hurting him or setting something on fire, the flame went inside Rolf!! Slowly, the door and window opened wider allowing more and more of the smoky shroud to enter his room.
Like this a week had quickly passed, and Rolf had finished his basic butler training…