Astre tucked his hands into his pocket, much more at ease now than he had been after their arrival. And with all the props and tricks revealed when the house is lit up, any lingering anxiety from exploring the haunted house melted away.

"I can handle that. Are you sure you don't need help cleaning though? It doesn't entirely feel right to just leave it to everyone else." And he'd done his fair share of chores in Riverview and since arriving here. Anything to make life easier for the lot of them, especially with the house here being smaller than anything he's ever lived in before.

At least this was a little more interesting than in England though. With the exception of all the traditions that the other servants had suggested mixing into the event.