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Esme knelt there, a bit frozen in place; her actions had been an impulse, and she didn't know when the tray fell from her hand. Now she lay in the mess she had made, still and unable to look up at them. She hoped not to. 

"How dare you enter unannounced?" Lenora raised her tone angrily at her. She kept silently flinching a bit at her harsh tone. 

"She was just startled," Lucien said.

"You should really be careful of who enters your tent, these days no one can be trusted, you know" she directed a glare at the helper who seem sluggish with packing up what she had messed up and left. The seconds that passed and she still remained irritably motionless. It annoyed her.