Issue #162 December 11, 2014 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies contains two stories, each distinctive, but sharing some similarities. Both involve women possessing valuable magic abilities, abilities that make them targets for exploitation, and in both, a servant comes to the rescue.
In House of Gold and Steel, by Merissa Lingen, a poor girl, Kasia, is hired to nurse an invalid, Aneta. Aneta has the power to transmute substances (bricks to gold, for instance), but is kept an invalid by her mother so that she can use Aneta’s gift for wealth and influence. Kasia doesn’t like this state of affairs.
In Goatskin, by K.C. Norton, the lady Uduru, who can make rain, hires a servant girl, Shanzi, who is a goatskin girl and has a magic gift of her own. She’s a goatskin girl, a shapeshifter (I thought of goatskin as ‘container’.) Uduru is kidnaped for her ability (water is valuable everywhere), and it’s up to Shanzi to save the day.