‘Lumi, show the girl to her dorm, and make sure she
behaves!’ Lord Geastly bellows at his right-hand man. Lumi scuttles over and
grabs Bella by the wrist, forcing him to follow her.
‘How can you live with such a beast who treats people like
this?’ Bella asks as she snatches her hand from Lumi's grasp. Slapping her
across the face, Lumi lets her know that no word is to be spoken against his
master. The pair traipse up a seemingly never-ending number of flights of
stairs until Bella is almost too tired to continue. Finally arriving at a
large oak door, Lumi roughly pushes Bella in to a room filled with scrawny
girls climbing into bed.
Bella had always grown up wondering how people could allow
Lord Geastly to keep them trapped in his manor, forcing them to live out a miserable
existence in his company. The problem is that in the country village in which
they live, there’s nothing else. It’s isolated, and people are desperate: Bella
never imagined herself ending up here. Hoping to receive some kind of comfort,
Bella turns to the girls in her dorm, hoping that one of them will speak out to
her, but all remain silent until, weeping, she gets into bed and attempts to
sleep.
Breakfast the next morning is a sad affair. Beckoned down at
six a.m. by Mr Cog, Lord Beastly’s squat, round, time management executive,
the girls have a small meal of porridge and fruit and await their instructions
for the day. One by one they’re called to their duties until Bella alone
remains.
Lord Geastly struts into the breakfast room, hands in his
pockets, with his suit jacket tucked behind them. Ever highlighting his wealth
and power, Lord Geastly rarely allows himself to be seen without an expensive
suit on, hair slicked back from his wide forehead. Bella’s determined not to
show her nerves: she won’t let herself be trampled upon that easily.
‘Ah, Bella, I see you’re looking well this morning. Won’t
you finish your breakfast with me? I’m sure our chefs can rustle up something a
little better than that for our
esteemed guest, can’t they Lumi?’, he asked with a glare to his simpering
manservant. As Lumi hurries to the kitchen he hears Bella make one big
mistake:
‘That’s quite alright Lumiere, I won’t be eating with Lord
Geastly today, as I’m rather full. Please just put me to work sir’.
‘HOW DARE YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THIS. I am your master now,
don’t you remember? And if I say eat, you’ll damn well EAT’.
‘You can keep me here, and make me work, but I’m not
spending time with you.’
‘Lumiere, take her to the room’.
Ashen-faced, Lumiere once more takes hold of Bella’s wrist,
pulling her on to a dark fate awaiting.
Part three coming soon ...
This will be up next week, and I hope you're as excited as I am to see what happens!
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