AFTER HANNA heard her parents fight, she ran back to her room.
But she didn't have the time to sulk.
To distract herself from sad thoughts, she stood in front of her window. Her room had the view of the rose garden that her father gifted to her last year.
From there, she could see Benjamin, their gardener, attending to the roses. But he wasn't alone. The old man was accompanied by his two daughters: Bella (ten years old) and Jasmine (twelve years old). The sisters, despite their young age, were already being trained to be her maids in the future.
To her, it was normal.
She remembered that Neoma, after telling her about her second life, said that children their age in the modern world didn't have heavy responsibilities as they did in that world.
But it wasn't only the commoner children who were expected to work at such a tender age in the empire.
