What do babies do? No like honestly.
It's been a couple days since I was "born" in this world. And nothing of note has happened. You'd think being reborn would've been more exciting.
I ate, slept, shat, and cried. That was the cycle, one thing of note though was that I finally figured out my skin color.
From a proud black I turned into a lightskin. Not terrible, but still a major blow to my psyche. Like.. was I still allowed to say nig.. Better not test it. But now I finally had an answer to the age-old question. Indeed, the reincarnation cycle was racist.
Back to more serious matters, the little particles I "see" seemed to have undergone a kind of transformation. I could "see" colors with them now, imagine my surprise when I noticed that I somehow had hair, a lot of it at that -remember that i'm only like six days old- and they not to brag, seemed quite unique, not the typical black, brown, and white. Along with my golden eyes-which like a cat, had a slit-, I imagined that when I grew up I would look like some anime protagonist.
Another thing to note about the particles was that they seemed to have deepened their connection to me or something. If I really focused on them I could observe my surroundings a little bit. Not too much, only like a couple inches all around my body. It wasn't a lot but hey, it was exciting stuff.
Unfortunately my "mother" barely came to see me though. But everytime she did she spent a lot of time with me,with the record standing at 10 hours, so a win was a win I guess. She would often try to talk to me and often brought toys with her to play with me.. She never left the toys behind though. Quite the stingy mother I was born to.
I could move my neck now, so another plus on the checkbook. Still didn't have much control of my body though, still shitting and peeing myself without even noticing, luckily they wrapped some sort of pamper around my ass. Rolling around in my own shit and piss would've had me trying to commit suicide. Honestly the sight and knowledge of being able to shit myself, and not even having to worry about it cause somebody would immediately come and clean it was weirdly funny. Wonder if I would be able to get them to bathe me in the future when I grew up.
I still couldn't really understand what all the people around me were saying, but now I could catch a word here and there now so that was one tiny step in learning how speak.
On the note of speaking, I wondered, should I start speaking early or late? Since I didn't know the standard around here for my race I just decided to try it early instead of late. What if I took too long and they took me for a retard? And they banished me like those novels where the Mc was crippled. God I hated those stories.
Ironically. It seemed I was once again stuck somewhere where I couldn't move freely. From the womb to the cradle. It seemed God really did have a sense of humor. I would make up for it in the future I guess, I was feeling a little guilty already, the maids were about to have to deal with a menace in the future.
On the topic of maids, where was that lady that fed me the day I got here? I haven't seen her once during my six days of imprisonment.
Creak
I turned my head to the source of the sound, seeing it was a maid, I went back to minding my own business, she was probably here to check up on me or somethi-.
'Well never mind.'
The maid picked me up quite gently before cradling me in her arms, almost like a princess carry. On a more serious note, I didn't recognize her, usually it was the same three maids that seemed to have a rotational schedule with me. But this one stood out much more than them. While the three maids that usually took care of me weren't by any means ugly, this one carrying me right now was on a different level entirely, probably rivaling the lady that fed me when I first got here.
Her hair was an auburn color, with all sorts of colors streaked within. Ranging from black, green, red, and many more. I was unsure if it was naturally like that or if she had dyed them. Her eyes though, were a gem-like yellow.
Not having anything else to do I was content to just stare as she took me out of my room.
Do note that I hadn't left my room in about a week- I ate, shat, and pissed in the same room. Not like that was a bad thing, as the maid in charge of me for that day changed the sheets, even though nothing ever got on them. And sat on the rocking chair next to my bed with me on them to feed me.
Anyway, back to the present.
'I wonder what's the occasion.' On the way to our destination I couldn't help but look around, back then I couldn't turn my neck to really get a good look at my surroundings but now that I could, I took full advantage.
With grand gold encrusted chandeliers at every corner providing the building with a soft ambiance, paintings arranged in rows along the wall depicting all sorts of things. From mighty dragons -I assumed my dad was a dragon- to lone knights, battlefields, to exquisit buildings. Everything could've been found. Various antiques were arranged on little tables, each more grand than the previous.
One peculiar thing I noticed was the over abundance of mirrors. It was like I was in the house of a narcissist. Like I even saw multiple of the roof for god's sake.
Gold seemed to be a favorite around here as almost everything had gold on it. The walls, the roof, the chandeliers, even the door frames.
The place seemed huge, as even after walking what felt like twenty minutes, we still didn't seem to be at our destination, much less out the building.
'Ughh, I feel sleepy.' Being a baby, and not seeming to have found anything exciting my body seemed to have decided it wanted sleep now. 'Maybe she'll wake me up when we get to wherever she's going.'
'Damn a guy can't even appreciate the sight of his own house nowadays.' Thinking so, I drifted off into sleep.
?? Pov
Gazing down at the boy sleeping soundly in my arms I couldn't help but grin. Out of the hundreds of possible candidates, I was the one chosen to be his personal maid. Seeing him sleeping so cutely I couldn't help but praise the Madam. She had given birth to quite the cutie.
While I didn't really have much of a reason for taking him out his cradle. I had heard that the maids previously assigned to him weren't allowed to take him out of his room, out of fear of them somehow hurting him. I could, and would be taking him out however. Nobody, probably not even a baby could stand just laying on a bed all day.
Seeing him sleeping so soundly I turned back, preparing to take him back to his room. While I was technically his sole personal maid, I did not fancy changing pampers, and changing sheets. So I was prepared to leave all that hassle to his previous maids.
'Hm, Maybe I should take up feeding him though. Interacting with him could be fun. Plus, I need to familiarize myself to him anyway.'
On the way back to his room I unfortunately bumped into the Madam's personal maid, Eadith.
Being the head maid, Eadith didn't really interact with the rest of us all that much. And when she did, she somehow always managed to find a fault with anything, whether it be our work, a stain or wrinkle on our uniforms. Heck, I even heard she had somebody fired for her hair being "unsightly" I was pretty sure that was rumor but who knew with this woman.
"What are you doing here? Urethia?"
Grumbling under my breath, I tried to try and make myself sound more professional.
"Just taking his highness on a walk. Having him have a change of pace and letting him have some fresh air seemed natural."
It's not like I hated her, but the way she looked so rigid and her strictness made her quite an unlikeable person. Like I swear the woman had a permanent broom up her ass, couldn't recall a day where she didn't find fault in something.
"Then I won't hold you, keep in mind to hold the young master more carefully. You're not supporting his neck properly."
Subtly adjusting my hold on his highness I looked on as she walked away.
'Ok, that one was my fault.'
Shaking my head, I walked on with a wry smile on my face.
Soon reaching his highness's quarters I put him back into his cradle before exiting.
I almost couldn't wait for him to grow up. I would ensure he never turned out to be another Eadith.