Lord Rokkan’s Private Toy by Hollie Hutchins

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK

It took everything in Megan’s power, and then some, to not look at her watch again. She’d already checked the damn thing three times that hour, and each time been disappointed by what it said. She put both her frustration and her back into her work, pushing down hard on the giant, moldy sponge she’d been given to scrub the floors of the communal bathrooms. Pinkish-gray soap seeped from the pores in the sponge and onto the grimy tile floor. She scrubbed at the burned orange stain, which was obviously not going to come out, and tried not to think too hard about what might have caused it.”