Storming the castle

Silver Flourish led you to the servants quarters, If anypony could help avoid the guards and find the Princess it was the maids.

Silver couldn't see very well in the darkness and stumbled frequently, as you hurried down the long corridor, it isn't long before you reach your destination.

Crouching at the door you reach into your pocket for your lock picks and start working on the lock.

"What are you doing? Silver askes you" pushing you aside "We should just knock, she's my marefreind, she'll let us in."

"We're hiding from the guards, What if they hear us knocking, What if when she opens the door and see's me and she screams, Or worse calls the guards!"

"Or what if when we break into her room, She attacks us, Or worse calls the guards" Silver argues.

"Our best option is quietly sneak in while she sleeps and then you gently wake her" You tell him.

Silver reluctantly agrees as you busy yourself picking the lock.... After a few moments the door lazily creaked open and Silver stumbled inside and knocked something over in the darkness with a loud "Crash!"

Hunching yourself over you squeeze through the tiny door frame to check on your new friend "Crash!"
Somepony broke something over your head as you crumple to the ground in a heap on top of Silver Flourish.

A few seconds later you came to, the guards must have been waiting for us! You think to yourself.
Somepony strong grabs your pack straps and drags you deeper into the room.
You try to stand up but they break something over your back as soon as you move.

You cradle Silvers limp form in your arms and slide backwards into a wall holding a hand up in a guesture of parlay.

Standing over you is a cute Pegasus mare holding a heavy mohagony wardrobe effortlessly over her head.
She says something in a language you don't understand as she put the wardrobe down.
You flinch as she rushes over.

She starts fussing over Silver Flourish, as tears streak down her face leaving glistening trails in her white fur. Rushing over to the bed and putting her long auburn mane in a tight bun she motions for you to bring silver.

You stand up bumping your head on the low ceiling, Silver lets out a low groan as he smiles up at you winking and putting a hoof to his mouth making a Shhh gesture.

You look at him as your worried expression melts away. You consider dropping him, But you know that you'd do the same if a cute mare was going to nurse you back to health.

After placing him on the bed, You begin walking towards the door to continue your search but Silver lets out a loud groan and reaches a hoof in your direction, the Pegasus darts in front of you blocking your exit.

"Who are you, why have you come here, how do you know my beloved and what have you done to him?" She askes in a heavy prench accent.

"I'm an assassin hired by princess Luna to test the guards" You try to explain over the sound of Silvers groans.

"True love" Silver groans.

"Ok, I came to tell Celestia I love her!" You blurt out while scowling at Silver.

"Do you even know zee princess?" She asked skeptically.

"We bumped into each other a few months ago" You say with a casual shrug.

She thinks about it for a few moments, she has noticed a change in the princess recently. Then she realized why she doesn't like you.
"It took me hours to scrub zee blood out of zat carpet" she scolds, smacking you repeatedly, Until Silver groans again.

"Silver says you might be able to help me get past the guards and find Princess Celestia."

"hmm... I might be able to help" She says holding a hoof under her muzzle as if in deep thought.
"Zee palace has secret passage ways, Some for zee princesses and some for zee maids so zay can come and go without being seen. Their is a map zee head maid has it. She uses it to train the new maids.
It will not be easy to convince her to help. She is... how do you say?... oh! A hard ass."

"Take me to her please! I must convince her to help" You beg.

She looks at Silver Flourish as if she is reluctant to leave his side.

"Please for true love" he groans

"Follow me" she says, rolling her eyes at Silver's antics.

"I don't even know your name" you say as you raced down the hallway, with the maid galloping swiftly ahead of you.

"It's Feather Duster" she said skidding to a halt in front of a large ominous door as you nearly bumped into her from behind.
"Zis is it. Zee head maid is inside, now l must return to Silver. Good luck!"

You knock quietly on the door and wait for an answer.

Almost instantly the door opens a crack and then quickly closes again.

You stand there dumbfounded.... And as soon as you turn to walk away the door opens again, An older but still very lovely mare in a prench maid outfit motioned for you to enter. She had cute little halvemoon glasses perched on her nose and her graying mane done up in a tight bun just like Feather Dusters.

"I've been expecting you my name is Brandy Wine, I am the Head Maid for the Princesses" she says.

"How did you know I was coming?" You ask as you narow your eyes in distrust.

"Because I orchestrated this whole thing down to the very last detail" she tells you, using a hoof to massaging the dark circles under her eyes. "every thing from you going to canterlot, The Princess running late, The guards restlessness, Princess Lunas letter and even you meeting Silver Flourish."

"But why... I don't understand?"

"Because we maids see every thing in the castle without ever being seen, nothing happens without us knowing, If somepony makes a mess or something breaks, one does not look for a maid because we're already on the job. We live only to serve, we are the princesses closest confidantes, Always there for them if they cry, ready with a hoofcerchif to dry there tears. When they smile we smile. And if they ever become lonely we find them somebody to love."

You just stared in awe, "I never realized just how hard you maids realy worked until now" you tell her as you knealed before her and brought her forehoof up to your lips and gave it a gentle kiss as she looked away blushing.

"Enough sentimentality we have a battle to plan" She says as she leads you to a large table covered in maps.
"There are passage ways large enough for the princesses here, here, here and here" she says pointing to the locations on the map.
"Princess Luna is waiting for you here, it's a choke point and there is no other way through. These passages here, here, here, here, here and here are to small for you to enter my tiny maids barely fit. But here" She draws a circle on the map, "Is a dumbwaiter big enough for a team of maids and a cart of cleaning supplies you should be able to use it to skip these levels completely.
And Princess Celestia is here in the highest room in the tallest tower."

You study the maps carefully, the hardest part will be getting past Luna.

"Somepony warned me you were a real hard ass Brandy" You say as you bend down and wrap her in a warm hug, "But i think your a real sweetheart."

"I gave you carefull instructions. If you buck this up you'll find out first-hoof how much of a hard ass I can be" she says slapping you across the butt as you hurry out of her room and into the darknes towards the dumbwaiter.