This girl. First, she refused to dance along in the party, saying that it won’t make any changes either way; now she tries to challenge Big Boss to do the dance move only girls are supposed to do.

“I don’t see why the dance move is exclusive to women; it’s not like it depends on anything of the woman body. Don’t get started on breasts and hips: Yours are bigger than mine and some other girls in the club! The art of seduction, you say? Why, it would be nice to have men do it for a change!”

Great Velociraptor, I must get her out of that room! Or him, it doesn’t matter.

I walked in as calmly as I could and announced that Ms. Heavendrop is expected in the garden. That should do it. Now I only have to guide her to the place and try to talk some sense to her – or not. This girl… If this goes on, Big Boss might butcher her alive.

“I want out from here, Fredrik! This place stinks!”

“Well, I suppose this might be a good opportunity to leave, Miss.” I wasn’t mistaken, there was no one else in the garden, and I could have just said that she ran away with a lover or something similar. Those things happen all the time, and are never my fault.

“Do you really think it would be that easy to leave? You don’t understand!”

“Do you think it would make it easier for you to stay? I might not understand the problems you might have to face if you left, but I do know the consequences if you stayed here any longer.” I look into her eyes. This Fredrik she currently faces might seem to be a simple butler, but I had my own, unique past, just like everyone else. Now is the time to use one of those tools I have gathered over my youth. I walk up closer, raise my head just enough for her to realize how much small she is to me, and looked down on her eyes. “Big Boss will kill you sooner or later. I don’t need to list down the possible reasons for that.” State it slowly, and let silence help it sink in.

My old techniques still seem to work on people. She turned pale. Maybe it was less because of my words but more because there was finally someone who said the same thing as the little voice in her that she tried to shut up all this time. Out loud. See, that is why I left my previous life: It’s disgusting to see how people can so easily be moved and stirred.

Heavendrop doesn’t say nor do anything. She just stands there, in silence. This is enough, though, a little bit more, and she won’t leave this place. I decide to break the silence. “You have to leave on your own, though. As much as I wish to accompany you on your journey, I can’t afford to raise suspicion.”

The girl just looked up. Questions. But I don’t answer unasked questions.

Before she could even ask the first one, I shood her off. “Go, now! Run, you know where to!”

She complied, at first hesitant. But when she repeatedly saw my shooing gesture as she turned around, she finally went full power with her legs. I stayed there until I was sure that she was really gone from the complex of Big Boss. Through the woods, of course.

That girl is a smart one, she will know the next thing to do. People always stress out how much of a benefit a girl’s beauty can be, but more often I find myself disagreeing with them. Beauty is plastic: One day you have it, one day you don’t; one day you’re the goddess from Heaven, one day you’re the ugliest devil from Hell. The greatest gifts for a girl may not be beauty and elegance, but just the things that would be the greatest gifts for a boy: Intelligence, persistence, and determination.

Why are you doing this, Fredrik? I am sure that girl is dying to know the answer of it. Well, to tell you the truth, it is my very mission. Big Boss likes to exploit girls, sometimes even boys, and I like to set them free. Have you heard of the famous mechanic or the legendary female carpenter? Without me to tell them to run away from this place, you would have never known about them.

Of course, I do all of this carefully, with varying methods. I use the tools I gathered in my youth. A knife can be used to kill, or to cook, it depends on who holds it. Being a sneaky, manipulative schemer doesn’t have to mean that you are destined to be a devil’s accomplice. While others rather use their weapons to cut their own path, I use them to cut the path for others. At least the first steps of it.

But no one will know this little secret of mine. Little Miss Heavendrop is not an exception. No one may know, so I can execute my mission as effectively as possible. This girl did leave some mess though, it might be a challenge to clean things up for her. Well, I’ll manage, just like I always had. Big Boss won’t be pleased, but that’s the very reason why I stay.