A few weeks had passed, and Josh, who was currently undercover as Georgie, along with his friend Simon, who went by Roy, had already become accustomed to the people in the Dotmon manor. The Dotmon family consisted of four main members: David Dotmon himself, his wife Millie, and their two children, Oscar and Mate - a young woman and a young man. As Georgie, Josh had been studying the family closely. Stationed primarily indoors as a replacement for David Dotmon's wife's personal guard, he was currently undergoing training. Apparently, the wife had taken a liking to him.
From his brief interactions with Mr. Dotmon, Josh gathered that the man was shallow, lacking intelligence in his eyes. Most of the time, he appeared bland and unremarkable. In contrast, Josh paid special attention to Mrs. Dotmon, who seemed to be the smarter of the two. Her eyes were cunning and sly, but she didn't give Josh the feeling of being a worthy opponent - more like a child with bright potential yet to be realized. Though he kept his guard up, sensing she hadn't revealed everything.
The children, however, gave Josh a headache. He'd never met such vapid people. Oscar and Mate were childish, their conversations lacking any hint of intelligence. They were like beautiful, empty vessels, lacking substance. There was a third child
As Josh recalled the reason for his undercover mission - helping Miss Somerset and her brother Sean protect their house from David Dotmon's grasp - he couldn't help but wonder how someone as shallow as Dotmon had achieved such success. What secrets was he hiding? Had Josh overlooked something crucial? He closed his eyes, attempting to visualize every detail, questioning if his skills had grown rusty. 'What am I missing?' He thought
The roaster cried and he knew that it was time for him to get up , the servants quarters were near the stable and all of house Dotmon 's servants stayed there, he shred a room with Roy and three other men including Robert and two more named Francis and Gerald the former was a middle aged man with white hairs and the later was around the same age as him.
The middle aged man mostly kept to himself, never speaking out of turn but Gerald on the other hand waswa talker. He and Roy got along very well and sometimes he would question whether the man playing Roy was his quiet and reserved friend who sold fish not so long ago. His gaze moved to where Roy was sleeping and he inwardly smiled, as if feeling his gaze Roy's eyes snapped open with a questioning gaze as if the man was never asleep.
"Morning pal, do you know you talk in your sleep?" Georgie asked laughing, Roy rolled his eyes and slowly sat up
"That is impossible, I am half conscious when I'm sleeping." Je responded and Georgie gave him a shallow smile
[What kind of childhood did you have?] He thought and sighed, "That is weird." He finally said
Roy shrugged and got off the bed , "Well ot sure beats being killed in your sleep." Grabbing his towel from the rack, Georgie watched him exit the room. He shook his head and did the same as Roy did but not before taking in a look of the room they had been staying in for weeks,
The room was simple, with five beds lined up, and three occupants still sleeping in theirs.
The room had plain white walls, with a simple paint job and minimal decorations. The floor was made of wooden planks, and the beds were arranged in a neat row, each with a small wooden chest at the foot.
[I'm not going to miss this place.] He thought before exiting the room.
Georgie always had an early morning, he was supposed to go for combat training with miss Dotmon's former guard, the man who was named Gado did not like him he thought it was mainly because he had taken the man's job. Oh well there was nothing he could do about it after all even he had not anticipated such a move, as he was bathing he was reviewing the information he had learnt for the past few weeks.
In the Dotmon manor there were a total of 34 servants including him and his group, made up of 20 women and 11 men. The quality of the servants was not the same as that of the top brass aristocrats like house Manchester or House Payne but they did their level best.
The manor was not as enormous as house Manchester's but it was still grand, and their masters were honestly not that horrible now that he had lived with them.
[There has to be someone behind the scenes busy pulling the strings.] He thought, he had to share his worries with Roy later on maybe he might have uncovered something he had missed.
After he was finished with his bath, he returned to their quarters and changed into his uniform which had the Dotmon family crest before heading out to go meet Gado.
The combat training were not worth much but he was acting the role of a country bumpkin so he had to endure such sloppy lessons. The way Gado would act when he was demonstrating imperfect techniques would leave him speechless, "it took me 12 years to master this technique." Gado spoke bringing him out of his thoughts
As he demonstrated a technique he was familiar with, Georgie immediately noticed all the errors Gado made and cringed.
[Your instructor was a bad man.] He thought to himself before reacting to Gado's words like an excited child.
"That is splendid, will you teach me that?"he asked excitedly , Gado sneered and shook his head
,"I said it took me 12 years to master it, and lady Dotmon needs a guard now not in 12 years.", Georgie's shoulders dropped and he nodded slowly
"I-i understand." He said diaspointedly, Seeing his reaction Gado chuckled before taking in a stance and beckoning Georgie to come at him.
..... The combat training took them 3 hours and by the time they were finished, the whole manor was bustling with activity. His interactions with the rest of the group was limited especially the two girls Fatima and Georgina.
Roy and Georgina were still at it, and Fatima was still reclusive as for Robert well he was not much of a talker. But they did have days when they would finish their duties early and retreat to their quarter's and would chat until midnight, but now that did not happen as frequently as it did when they first arrived.
Georgie left to go clean himself before going to start his role for the day, and that was to stay by the miss Dotmon's side. Most of the times Davin was never home, well now it was because he was busy with preparations for the wedding of his son. The son he had never met, he wondered if the son was the culprit behind everything, if he was that would make sense but the question still remained what was his overall goal in a ll of this?
Was it to simply rise up the ranks of aristocracy or was there something more? A grand scheme that was hidden behind greed in the eyes of everyone else.