"Alright, alright, I'm not going anywhere, but apparently I can become invisible now..." Ylrhea says softly. "That might be handy."
She nods while sniffling and wiping her face with the sleeve of her shirt.
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"Aww, c'mon, don't cry," Ylrhea says, wrapping her arms around Arista. "Everything is fine."
She just nods again and leans her head against the gnomes shoulder while she tries to stop crying.
"Okay Rhea.....Ill try."
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As Sādhanā relaxes in the bath, she feels a warm sensation of love coming from the ring. The warm sensation begins building into another more sensual sensation as she feels Clara expressing her loneliness. The magus feels the rising heat and the pure need coming through her ring. The feeling lasts for a while before ceasing in a cascade of pleasure.
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As the sensations begin to build, Sādhanā is overcome by her wife’s desire. In previous moments she’d either been asleep or on watch during Clara’s private moments, but now…alone in the tub Clara’s need mirrors her own, igniting an irresistible fire in the Anizari.
Her skin flush, the magus finds her own hands roaming, responding to the sensations flooding through her ring. Her hand slips below the water, Clara’s pleasure amplifying her own, she struggles to keep quiet as Clara’s arousal accelerates her own, building to a peak with staggering intensity. As Clara’s pleasure washes through their private connection it triggers her own, her body shuddering with ecstasy as the waves of satisfaction wash over her.
After a bit she finishes washing up and shakily gets out of the tub, draining it and drying off as she enjoys the sated feeling that infuses her. Changing into her sleepwear she exits the washroom, an aura of calm emanating from her, a faint glow pulsing from the amber heart in the center of her ring.
Ylrhea pats Arista on the shoulder. "I think Sādhanā's out of the bath. I'm gonna get one before the Captain and Sienna get in there...or, gods forbid, Drago."
Sienna looks at the magus as she exits the bathroom and a wide grin crosses her face. "Good bath?"
"Just what I needed." Sādhanā replies, blushing slightly as she casts her cleaning spell on her armor before resting it at the foot of one of the beds.
"Hey, what did I do?" Drago asked.
"Nothing...yet. And I'm aiming to keep it that way until I get a bath," Ylrhea says, walking into the bathroom and shutting the door.
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"I think she means you're probably pent up, so to speak," Sienna says. "Good thing I didn't tell her what Sādhanā did."
Cyna looks confused for a moment before catching on.
"Ohhhh. I guess it has been awhile since we've been back home."
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Sienna nods. "We all have needs. I readily admit mine. Plus, I have to reward the demon slayer somehow."
She smiles and winks at Cyna.
Arista sort of sighs and goes back to her own bed. I'm not going to lose anyone else....I won't.
Laying her own stuff at the end of the bed, she pulls out the extra warm furry blanket that they got her for her wedding and lays it on the bed. After fixing up the bed she lays down and pulls the covers over her head.
Ylrhea places some coals on the remaining embers, letting them heat up the tub for a few minutes. She reaches into her back pocket and pulls out an elegant gold comb. "Goldie...I guess you're still with me after all these years..."
She sits on the edge of the tub, pulling all of the ties out of her head and running the elven comb through her hair. The gnome rarely liked to brush it out, only on special occasions or when it got too tangled for her liking. It was the latter reason this time. Why she kept a dead ex-boyfriend's gift was still a mystery to her. It reminded her of times when things were less complicated. It also reminded her that she wasn't the flippant person she once was.
Once the water had a little steam rising off of it, she slipped her scarred and naked body into the tub. She soaked her hair thoroughly, washing it with the soap on hand. It smelled sanitary...it smelled like home. What was home? Valwick? No, there was some place else...even before that. A place with parents...but she couldn't remember.
She finishes up several minutes later, drying the hair as best she can. It was trailing behind her now. Ylrhea shrugs. Maybe she would get it cut some time soon. She drains the tub, dresses in her sleepwear and heads to the bedroom, her long hair leaving a watery trail behind her as it drags on the floor.
"All yours, whoever wants it next."
"Why don't you go ahead, Drago," Sienna says sweetly. "I'm going to need that room for a while."
A slightly muffled groan can be heard coming from under Arista's blankets. In a slightly muffled and somewhat pouty voice you hear, "I just wanna kill the rest of these bastards quickly and finish things here so we can go home."
"Then go to bed and it'll be tomorrow and we can get back to killing," Ylrhea says, sitting on the bed and drying her hair with a spell.
"I didn't realize your hair was so long," Sādhanā says smiling. "Next time we can actually relax you should wear it out more often."
From under the covers, "My hairs still wet...."
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"I just leave it tied up all the time, so I never remember how long it is," Ylrhea says, pulling a blanket over herself.
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Sādhanā moves over to sit on the side of Arista's bed and nudges her aasimar friend. "Well I can't very well dry it for you under the blanket can I?"
She pulls the covers down and sits up, her hair a wet curly mess. She tilts her head down, the hair covering her face and the red puffy eyes she didn't want the others to see.
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Sādhanā begins the process of drying Arista's hair, waves of heat evaporating the moisture trapped within her curls.
"We'll get home soon, I promise. We're almost done with the tower. You'll be in Alethiro's arms soon."
Drago got up and went to the washroom. After closing the door and adding some more coals to the embers, the Dhampir added water and began to disrobe. He felt his bare chest. Even though the scars were gone, he couldn't help but feel as if his name was still carved in it. But that train of thought quickly faded as he slipped into the warm water. After a quick scrubbing, he brought his foot around as best he could to look at his heel.
Biting down on her lip to keep herself from sobbing openly, she nods her head as Sadhana finishes her hair.
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While having the shorter hair made it somewhat easier to deal with, it made it that much more curly. Without the weight of her long trusses to pull the curl out of her hair, it was just as curly as it used to be when she was younger. Now, falling just below her shoulders, the silver mass was full of bouncing wild curls that refused to be tamed.
Even though she tries not to think about how much she misses him, the distraction of her hair only lasts so long. Sniffling a little bit, she takes a few deep breaths to steady her voice. Once she makes sure she's not going to break down again she looks up.
"I....I'm sorry I've been so whiny. I don't mean to be, I'll try harder not to be stupid and do things without thinking."
"You weren't being stupid, so stop saying that." Sādhanā says quietly. "Incredibly impulsive, definitely, but I can also see how someone as full of light as you are couldn't stand to spend one more second on the Plane of Shadow. We're all in this together, and we'll all go home together hon."
She gives her friend a warm heartfelt hug. "You're not being whiny. And it's ok to feel sad that you can't be with the one you love, we all do at some point."
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While Drago finds no strange marks on his heel, the flesh on it looks lighter than the rest of his body as if some wound had healed.
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She returns the hug and nods, while her crazy curls bounce all over the place.
Wiping her face again she puts on a smile, even though it trembles slightly it stays in place. "Okay, I get it. Tomorrow we go, we do whatever it takes to finish off these bastards, restore the tower, and then start back home." Her eyes now bright and shining again, she looks at Ylrhea and Sadhana, "Thanks....for everything....and I'm sorry I freaked out on ya Rhea."
"I guess becoming invisible in front of your eyes would freak anyone out," Ylrhea says with a smile.
"You can turn invisible?" Sādhanā asks looking at Ylrhea.
"Yeah, I was just thinking about how unneeded I was and how I might as well be invisible, then poof!"
As Ylrhea says 'poof', she vanishes before Sādhanā and Arista's eyes.
"Ok, one...that's pretty cool. Two...turn it off. Last time you vanished was that horrible damn dream where you didn't exist." the magus says with an involuntary shudder. "And three.....if I ever hear you say you're not needed again, I'm gonna smack you."
Ylrhea reappears moments later. "It doesn't last long...and, okay, I hear you, geez."
She turns, her chin on her arms. "I...just feel lonely."
Nodding her head vigorously she looks at Ylrhea as she tilts her head to the side slightly, "Yeah...that's why I kinda freaked out. All I could think about was that awful dream....like, it all came rushing back to me. I don't think I could stand to lose someone else."
She stops for a moment to regain some of her composure, "I know how you feel Rhea...really I do. It's how I felt when I realized that my whole world had been turned upside down and I thought I had lost my entire family. But...but I found another one. You....you are part of that family too. And...you, you are always needed. Not just because of your amazing skills, but because you belong with us, we're your family and we need you. Everything will work out, you'll see."
"I know, Arista, but...you guys have someone to go home to. Sādhanā's gonna go home to Clara, you're gonna go home to Alethiro, Drago's got Elena, and the Captain and Sienna have each other and Gwen. I don't see how I fit in that picture," Ylrhea says. "I'll be Auntie Ylrhea, yay, awesome, great...but that's just me in your guys' picture, not me in one of my own."
Hmm, interesting, I wonder what that means. Once finished, Drago drained the tub, and after several passes with his hand, the tub was cleaned with electrical sparks. The Dhampir then filled it with water and put some more coals down. He finished getting dressed into his sleepwear and stepped out into the sleeping area, he then said to Sienna and Cyna, "Alright you two, it's all yours."
Sienna grins, her fangs glistening in the light, and takes Cyna by the hand. "Thank you very much, Drago. C'mon, cutie."
Arista shakes her head and getting up off of her bed, pads quietly over to Ylrhea's. Talking quietly so as not to announce to the whole room what she's about to say, she gets a very understanding look in her eye as she puts an arm around Ylrhea.
"You're right....but, it doesn't have to be that way. I know what you said before, but....I believe that when you're ready and you give yourself permission to actually be loved again, you'll find the right one. It'll happen when you least expect it to....just....just don't close yourself off completely from the hope of finding it okay?"
Taking her arm back she stretches and yawns again, giving Rhea an encouraging pat on the knee she stands up and turns to go back to her own bed. Looking back at Ylrhea she says, "Just think about it okay?" She then lays down and covers back up, pulling her hair out from under her face she assumes her sleeping pose. Tucked up on one side with her extra pillows for support, one hand tucked under her cheek while the other arm wraps itself around another pillow. She closes her eyes and starts to slow her breathing, concentrating on Alethiro's face as she falls asleep.
Ylrhea rolls over onto her back and sighs. Arista always has to be so positive, what if I can't be? She found her love like that...I just realized too late. So that's that.
A small part of Sādhanā feels a twinge of sorrow at Ylrhea's loneliness. Under different circumstances both of their lives might have been very different. Mare than anything she wanted to see her friend happy, to have her experience the happiness and love that she now knew.
"She's right, the perfect person for you is out there. Believe it, because you're worth it." Sādhanā says quietly.
A small part of Sādhanā feels a twinge of sorrow at Ylrhea's loneliness. Under different circumstances both of their lives might have been very different. Mare than anything she wanted to see her friend happy, to have her experience the happiness and love that she now knew.
"She's right, the perfect person for you is out there. Believe it, because you're worth it." Sādhanā says quietly, getting up and moving over to the bed she'd place her gear next to.
Cyna follows Sienna to the bath where she removes her hardened leather armor and the rest of her crusading/adventuring equipment.
She let's out a content sigh as she slips into the heated tub. "This is nice."
"Time to let the girls loose," Sienna says, pulling off her clothes and slipping in behind Cyna. She starts scrubbing Cyna's back. "Mmm, I always enjoy a bath with you."
Cyna feels Sienna's tail brushing against her inner thigh. "I enjoy plenty of things with you in fact."