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Peasants can't take direction

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Here’s a scenario for you.  You are in my employment.  In return for food and shelter from the dangerous times, I want my homes to be clean, I need food prepared, clothes need to be handled, just housework.  I’m not asking you to do anything too complicated.  If anything, I’m doing all the complicated work.  I’ll handle the finances, and keep the country safe.  You just keep the floor under my feet clean, and I will handle this for you.

This isn’t revolutionary, but you don’t seem to understand why I’m calling you to the window.  It’s dusty.  ”But I just cleaned it.”  You protest.

Honey, if its dusty, you didn’t do a good job.  This is a warning.

God help you if you steal.  What is it?  You wanted this coin?  Am I not paying you?  Did you forget that?  Do you think your meals and clothes and the roof over your head just drop from my skirt?  No.

I like you, honestly, I do.  Your like the village idiot - annoying, but strangely lovable.  I don’t want to have to do this, but you make it so hard.  You all do.  I’d love to be your friend, but your trying to steal from me.  That’s not a very good friend.  I gave you a warning before, but you only get one.

You wanted that coin so much, I’m going to give it to you.  You probably didn’t want it burned into your hand, but I don’t want you to forget this.  Whats going to happen when you try to steal my pearls?

I might have to choke you with them, and we don’t want that.

I wish you could just do your job.  If you could just do your job, I wouldn’t have to hurt you.  My mother, rest her soul, always warned me ‘Don’t try to be their friend Erzsebet.  They aren’t like us’.  I understand that now.

I get things done.  I own a third of Hungary.  You can’t even clear a table right.  

I’m successful.  You where just caught behind the kitchen with a stable boy.

And well, I’m not in the cage, now am I?

I wish you would all just behave.  We have rules so no one gets hurt.  I make it all so simple, and you can’t even stay in line.  

You think I do this because I like hurting.  Well, your hardly a person, and I - I just have a strong sense of how things should be done.

I wish you wouldn’t scream like that and call me those names.  You know how I handle things like that.  You see, there’s a way things work in the world, and I get to make the choices.  I’m just going on what I feel is right.

You make a mistake, you get punished.  You just keep failing to learn, and that’s why your here.

Between you and me, I’m growing quite fond of hurting you people. I think that’s your fault.

Erzsebet Bathory is a fun one to write as...
I do so enjoy first person narrative.
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