<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://s300.photobucket.com/user/SociallyToxicBeauty/media/f9baa897-e285-4e2a-92b5-e0eb263a67ea.jpg.html"></a><a class="postlink" href="http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn24/SociallyToxicBeauty/f9baa897-e285-4e2a-92b5-e0eb263a67ea.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/><span style="color: #408000"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Alida</span></span></span></div><br/><br/>Alida complied easily with Izu's desires as he helped her to the shower. Her arms were wrapped around his waist as she leaned against him while he washed her body gently. She closed her eyes and nuzzled against him, feelings of affection rising in her for the usually sarcastic man. She could sense he was at war with himself about something, but she didn't really know what.<br/><br/>When he began to wash himself, she stopped him, taking the cloth and soap from his hands.<span style="color: #408000">"No. Alida clean Izu..."</span>she insisted softly. Grooming was one of the most intimate things in her world and Izu had been grooming Alida for the past few days now. She had not really had the chance to return the favor due to her illness, but now that she was better she planned on taking care of Izu.<br/><br/>She began to wash him quietly, her legs still a little shaky. Izu held her by her hips, gently keeping her steady as she went. When she was done washing his body, she grabbed the soap he often used in his hair and put a nickel size amount in her palms, lifting her hands to scrub the soap into his scalp with careful diligence.<br/><br/>She could feel his eyes on her and she looked up to meet his gaze. She stood on her tippy toes for a moment to leave him an innocent kiss on his lips before pushing him gently under the stream of water, rinsing his hair and body. Afterward they stood both in quiet contemplation, the water running over both their bodies as Alida clutched Izu with obvious devotion, though she did not realize it.<br/><br/>A few moments passed and Alida looked up once more,<span style="color: #408000">"Izu mine?" </span>she asked nervously. It had been something she wondered about for days now. Izu had been caring for her as if she were his and vice versa, but she didn't know if his people were the same when it came to such things. For all intents and purposes in her world, the two were linked forever. They were bound together and she would never be able to really be anyone else's. Though that didn't bother her. She worried, however, that even if they were bound together that it would not mean the same thing to Izu and that he would not accept her as a permanent fixture in his life. After all, they barely knew one another.<br/><br/>It was too late for Alida, but Izu was likely free to do as he pleased as he did not have the same magic in him as she did. He wouldn't be forced to stay in any spot he did not want to be in, but she would forever be unable to want or desire anyone else.