Clarissa starts her day in the palace in the kitchen, making the king's and queen's meals, and making food for others. She makes a nutritional breakfast of eggs, pancakes, bacon, and sausage with a carefully made fruit bowl from the palace garden for Mayllen and specially made food. With that, she grabs the plates, bowls, and glasses for oj or milk, and carefully takes them to the dining hall on the rolling cart, placing them carefully in each of their spots before asking another maid to wake them, as she doesn't have the confidence to face them. Caspian and Mayllen walk in happily hand in hand. He carefully guides her to her seat, second chair on the right, and pushes her chair in for her after she sits. Soon after Seraphiel and Nightalin come down, bantering as usual, Nightalin stubbornly tries to sit by herself and push her chair in. Seraphiel isn't having it and goes and pushes the chair in for her. She grumpily crosses her arms as he does so, saying she could have handled it herself.
Clarissa giggles from the kitchen as she makes the coffee for the men, black as always. Carefully places it on the rolling cart, then carefully places the food on the cart, making sure everything isn't touching and is in perfect nutritional portions, and is definitely not touching the bowl or the specialty-made food. She rolls the cart out as the one who usually gives them their food is out sick, but as soon as she gets the cart to them, she trips right in front of caspian who catches her, grabbing her forearm right on his symbol no less, and says you need to be more careful, little one. Clarissa straightens herself up. I truly apologize for that, sir. I'll definitely be more careful, ignoring the buzzing feeling on her forearm where he caught her earlier.
Carefully, she portions their food onto their plates and gives Mayllen her bowl and specialty-made breakfast that she had separate from the others. After doing so clarissa attempts to run away back to the kitchen, but before she can shes stopped by nightalin asking her to sit down with them next to her. In compliance with not angering them, she sits with them, watching as they eat, as she doesn't have a plate in front of her to eat. Caspian and Mayllen notice this and ask another maid to bring Clarissa a plate. She frowns in worry that the others will be mad that they asked her to sit with them, as they normally don't ask for one of their maids to sit with them as they eat. Clarissa watches as another maid comes out with a messy plate and trips, where the plate lands directly on her, not noticing it landed on Nightalin too. Clarissa quickly notices and wipes the food that landed on Nightalin first, not removing the mess that is now on her maid's outfit.
All four notice how shes cleaning everything but herself up, and all feel so much pity for her. Clarissa quickly goes and gets the broom and dustpan to clean up the broken plate, not realizing that it cut up her arms and legs. After bringing the broom and dustpan out seraphiel stops her and asks that Mayllen and Nightalin watch over her and help clean her up. Clarissa flinches at this request, afraid she has angered him and the others. The closer the girls try to get, the further she backs away until she backs herself into a corner.