Lois’s POV:The next morning, I didn’t waste any time.The moment Rochelle was out of the room and attending to patients, I slipped out of bed, borrowed a few coins from one of the kind nurses, and dashed out into the early dawn, hailing a rattling carriage straight to the Packhouse gates.I’d made up my mind.Waiting around, hoping for things to get better, had never done me any good—not in Hellbound Village, not even when I’d begged for mercy from the Moon Goddess. This time, I was going to take matters into my own hands.I arrived at the iron-barred gates where two guards stood with blank expressions, their hands lazily holding onto their spears. I swallowed and stepped forward.“I’m here to apply for work,” I said.One of them raised a brow. “Work?”I nodded. “I heard the Packhouse needed maids. I want to work.”“You’ll have to see Madam Rosanna,” The other said with a grunt. “She’s in charge of hiring.”One of the guards escorted me inside, through long corridors lined with polis
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