"It's not a problem miss," Briar quickly assured, "I was just startled is all."

No, she didn't mind the contact. Most people didn't get close enough to touch her at all, and those that did weren't typically the people that she wanted that close.

While she waited for the water, she grabbed two cups and set them out. Ordinarily she wouldn't have anything herself... but Nisa had specifically said to make them both something to drink. Briar brought her hands together, resting loosely at the front of her skirts.

"Quite a few," she admitted. "The last lady I worked for accused me of seducing her husband. I hadn't, but she did not like the way he looked at me."

Briar hadn't particularly liked it either.

Others had accused her of theft, and others still had found one reason or another to dislike her and remove her from their staff. She didn't suppose those were good things to tell her new employer, so she said, "I've been hired by a lot of people who thought that I was unintelligent, and who thought that it would be easy to mistreat me. I was fired because it was not."