She finished before dawn, before the servants gets to wake up.
Knowing well enough where the supplies of the house are stored, she took another carpet and laid it out on the bare marbled floor. It took her quite a long time to be able to center it and have the furniture be placed on top. She changes the arrangement of the chairs since there is already one missing and she hopes that with this new placement, they don’t get to question the absence of it. The curtains she did change as well so as to fit the accent of the new carpet.
Everything looks impeccable and without a sign of something terrible has happened, just the redecoration of a woman whose coping mechanism is to change the way everything looks.
Giving a last pass around, checking if she missed something, Cassandra was still
