She wiped the sweat from her forehead as she took hold of the bucket once again. The task for today was to fill up the pond in Consort Rose's garden with clean water. They didn't have any pipes to draw water and male servants weren't allowed in the Consorts' palace so the person who had to do such hard work was them It was a ten-minute distance from the nearby river to the palace, and the fact that the pond was the size of an average-sized swimming pool didn't help matters. This was her third round and she already felt like her arms would fall off at any moment Alex groaned as she walks from the gates heading to the backyard where the pond was. She hadn't expected that someone would be coming from that direction as well and in her hurry, they bumped into each other. She hissed as the buc

