The next morning was a chaotic rush to get showered and dressed in time to get everything organized for their departure.
The Royal Guard would be driving the trucks, and the Colonel had managed to find three staff members to go with them. Cook Beth, Jasmine, the Farrier, and a scullery maid named Liz.
She was an indentured servant to the Palace, as the King had paid her family's debts and she still had years of wages left to pay them off. But the Colonel had arranged to pay the exchequer and transfer her debts to Dominic, as Duke of Wistover.
It was a common enough thing, though most of the people who were working off a debt were working off fines for petty crimes, not their family's massive gambling debts as Liz was.
Beth had recommended her, as even now, her family was pressuring her to give them the portion of her wages which didn't go to paying the debts they had accrued. Being away from the Capital would be good for her.
