Dovetail
#3 of Word of the Day
Word of the day 3! Comments please :)
Dovetail- to join together harmoniously
As the heavy door creaked open, it unveiled the men behind. Men that would choose her path in life. Before she could fully consider the severity of these men, the first spoke.
A hair-brained looking rodent clutched to a clipboard bathed in erratic scribbles that looked, to the wolfess, illegible. With a quavering, squeaky voice befitting to a mouse, he addressed her.
"Sapphire, we have chosen your place. I believe you will dovetail well with your new mistress-."
Before he could divulge who it would be, he was cut off from a growl within the room. A deep rumbling that introduced the lumbering black bear that now shoved his way past the mouse.
"Mistress Evergreen, your mistress shall be Madge Evergreen, the lady heiress to Windthrow castle."
Sapphire's breath caught in her throat and for a moment, she could only stare dumbly at the furs before her. A hard lump of disbelief formed in her throat and refused to be dislodged.
Madge Evergreen was the young heiress to the throne, who at age 18 proclaimed she would never take a mate and risk her power, and the three years following kept her promise harshly.
She was brutal and controlling.
She was harsh and unforgiving of mistake.
And now, she was Sapphire's master.
As the deep violet collar was secured around her neck with a metallic click of the tags at her throat, Sapphire wondered what she had gotten herself into.