A lavish kitchen where the aroma of food can be smelled from miles away. Hundreds of servants and cooks weave and jostle about as they prepare for the next meal of the day. The meal they are cooking smells divine.
Palace Kitchen, Inside Palace
cook
maid
I am a girl who cleans houses for my bosses. I make sure to get everything very spotless so that I can continue to be employed. I also use some of my hard earned money to climb upwards in life.
Of course! Are there any tasks that I can help you with today?  Yes, I have to get the lambs on the spit, chop these carrots, will you? Too much to do and too little time! You know what?! I have had enough! I have a plan!  Last time I checked, a royal chef gets to tell a lowly maid what to do. Now do what I asked! Please! Just hear me out! It's for the benefit of us both!  Listen. We are all rushing here today. What could be so important that you can't help a superior? If we poison the meals of the royal family... We can rise up and take control of the kingdom!  What?!? I...I can't believe I am hearing this. Do you know what the punishment is for treason? They will cut off your head! I want to open a little pub someday, not take over the castle! You see the way that they live every day! That could be us!  I don't want it! They are in a prison of their own making. You better hope no one heard your plan, lowly maid.  A prison in what way? They have power and wealth beyond our wildest dreams!  They aren't free to live like you and I! I don't want power, I want simple happiness. Now, you better get to work before I tell the royal guards about your plan.