The Mistress's Artist

It was a cold morning, a morning you've grown familiar and fond over. You slowly but surely get up and make your way to the kitchen sink, the cold water waking you up more after splashing some on your face.

Soon after washing yourself clean, you began cooking yourself up some breakfast, scrabbled eggs and a bread roll. Today was the day to restock on supplies from the village, you pour yourself a cup of coffee and proceeded to consume your early meal.

Getting dressed in the appropriate clothing and grabbing your bag, you make your way down to the village. You lived high up a hill in the forest, the trees close enough to cover your cabin, it was only a five minute walk to the village so you don't mind the travel.

You moved here after hearing that it's an isolated village with very few people and it's eternal like winter, it was a perfect place for you to move to. You enjoyed quiet areas and snow, not to mention that you scored a cabin in a tree surrounded landscape. The view you had out the front door was also amazing, the snow mountains surroundings with a small village below, the mysterious castle on top of one of the mountains was a good bonus.

The village despite having the most weirdest and or grumpy looking people, have great items and food. The old lady you would usually get your dairy products from can be a bit rude, but we've gotten into a habit of doing slight banters to each, it was obvious that she enjoyed them judging by the small smirk she would have.

You stood outside the store holding your bag of groceries in one hand, the old lady had won the banter. You make your way back home, but quickly slowed your steps upon seeing quite a tall woman in the distance, with a smaller woman next to her holding a couple of bags begrudgingly.

You step forward to get a better look, stopping at a bench and placing your groceries down on it and getting your sketchpad out of your bag along with your pencil. The tall lady wore a long white 50s style dress with a large black sun hat, she looked so beautiful, you couldn't help but draw her out on your sketchpad. Her lovely curly shoulder length hair held up but a black rose pin on the back, her red lipstick sticking out over her pale complexion, and her golden yellow eyes almost glowing over the shade her hat provided.

While taking in her breath taking appearance, you quickly noticed the smaller woman glaring daggers at you while snarling, which caused the tall one to glance over at you. That's when you decided to quickly pack your stuff and run off with your groceries back home.

After making it inside your home and closing the door, you slid down to the ground and breathed out a sigh of relief. You don't know why but you felt it was a good choice to run off upon being spotted, something about that blonde haired lady unsettled you.

You make your way up off the ground and put your groceries away before sitting on your bed. You go through your bag and got out your sketchpad, it was on the page that had the sketch of the tall lady on it. You blushed upon looking at it and felt a slight sense of guilt over drawing someone without their permission. You sighed and thought that you should apologize when you can, you closed the pad and placed it on your bedside table.

Now that you thought about it, that was the first time you've seen those people, they looked more fancy compared to the people here. You looked out the window and saw the castle, maybe they're the residents of the castle. You thought about it more, a few of the village folk have mentioned that there was a Mistress living in the castle. You stopped listening to their chatting upon hearing that you should lock up at night to avoid the vampire Mistress, it was amusing hearing them mention a mythical creature.

You decided it was best to spend the day lousing about before ending the day with a warm dinner and a rest.

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