Rosalinda walked up to the two men, having just drawn there baths from the large pot on the fire. "Gentlemen, your baths are ready when you would like to take them. The soap and comb is on your dresser, and if you need help with your bath, tell me now or forever hold your peace! If you do not need help, I will be embroidering some fabric in the back room! And if you need me to tend to your wounds, I will only do so after you take a bath! Sorry, but that's my rule!" She said with a smile, seeing a couple of men arguing outside which she knew they never seemed to see eye to eye. 

She walked outside, her facial expression being one of anger as she shouted, "Oy! Enough of the squabbling! We got the ladies inside playing cards and they don't want to hear you yelling about your gosh darn problems! Now if I have to separate you two, I will! Don't think I won't you two! Now shut your mouths and get along with each other!" She walked back in side, smiling again at the two men she had been talking to before. "So, what can I do for you two? Oh wait! I don't even know your names! So sorry! It's been a long day for me and my minds a bit weary! You see we have more and more people coming in each day, so that means I have more beds to make, people to take care of, and some people need their clothes mended for them! Plus they got me tending to the horses, lovely creatures they are, but I wouldn't go in there if I were you! They got a bit of a temper to the new comers who they don't know!" She explained, barely stopping to take a breath throughout her whole entire basic summary of her chores although there were much more than those ones. 

"I'm not complaining though, I love it here! But enough about me! Please, what can I do for you? Wait, but first I want to know your names! Then tell me what you want!" She said, being hyper since she had had a little too much sugar in her oatmeal that day. And only god knew just how hyper she got when she ate cook's famous cookies........ Lazarus had to make her pass out and take her to her room just because she was so hyper! When she had sugar though she was like a cleaning machine, so that's why she only put a little sugar in her oatmeal instead of a lot. She smiled and waited for them to speak, but her smile faded when she heard Adrian's name. 

"No....... No, you shouldn't be here........ How did you get here....... You should be back with your mother and father!" She said, starting to panic as she remembered the incident that happened just before she had found herself in the forest. "Excuse me." She murmured, rushing towards the stairs and practically running up them. She continued to run down the hall, getting to the other staircase and rushing up it. Once she got to the second floor she rushed to her bedroom, slamming the door behind her but forgetting to lock it. She curled up on her bed and began to cry, the memory of that cursed day rushing through her mind at the speed of light.

________________ Five years ago _________________

"So this is the lovely girl Adrian told us to roughen up a little........" The lead boy in the bandit gang had said, backing Rosalinda up into a corner and curling a strand of her hair in his finger. "Stay away from me! Adrian would never do such a thing!" She had said, pushing the boy back but that only made the three boys madder. "Oh yeah?! Then why did he send us this note with fifty gold coins?!" The second boy said, pulling out a piece of paper that had Adrian's hand writing on it as well as the fifty gold coins. "No! No he would never do that! He wouldn't!" She had yelled, the third boy grabbing her by the throat and starting to strangle her. "He said to give you this from himself!" He told her before her eyes rolled back into her head, her curvaceous yet somewhat dirty body falling against the boys. 

"Let's take her to the forest, before anyone sees!" The lead boy said, the two others picking up her body before the boy raised his hand for them to stop. "Before we do that....... Let's roughen her up some more!" He said, the boys dropping her and starting to kick her limp defenseless body. Then they dragged her deep into the forest, letting the rocks sticking up out of the ground rip and tare her dress while bruising and cutting her skin. They left her there to die, but later on Rosalinda woke up with a pounding headache from the lack of blood she had. She wandered around for a couple of days before stumbling onto the clearing, Lazarus helping her inside to a nice warm bath. 

He cleaned her up and tended to her wounds, letting her rest and heal up before giving her a job, food, water, and clothing. And she had lived there ever since, enjoying her time there very much. 

___________ Present time ____________

Rosalinda sat up when she heard someone knock on her door, tucking her hair behind her long ears before she pulled in a long breath. "Come in." She said just loud enough for them to hear, her lip quivering a bit as she rested her head in her hands and starting to cry again. She had trusted Adrian........ And he had treated her like a lower life form that had no reason to live at all. But now he was here, with her again, and she was so afraid now that her body shook with every sob that she let out. She heard the door open and close, letting her eyes look through her hands at the person who had entered her room.