Manouvring him to the edge of the ramp that led down into the bath in sphinx form and then shifting back to humanoid, she didn't make any further jokes. She got around in front of him on the ramp, and gently got him down into the water, which started to turn pink almost immediately. She let him scrub himself as much as possible, but she worked on areas he couldn't reach in his overstuffed state.<br/><br/>"How did you get blood behind your ears?" Ptricia asked, slightly incredulously. "And your tail is going to need some serious combing out. Right now it's so thick with clotted blood, you could use it as a club."<br/><br/>She yawned massively. "All in all, that went less well than I'd hoped. Looks like I need a refresher course in infiltration. I should have accounted for the psi factor. If they're after you because of it, it stands to reason that they'd have some way of detecting it. I'm sorry."<br/><br/>She sighed. "At least I got a read on our opponent's chief mage, and a good one at that. Contrary-wise, they won't have any artefacts of mine to get even a partial signature off of. I don't sense any items we left behind, which means their self destructs worked. Now I know his magical signature, I can build better countermeasures, and maybe even get a better idea on how to defeat the bloodlust spell. Removing it is still impossible, almost certainly, but if I can tweak the trigger conditions, I could make it much less inconvenient. I can't promise, and I'm in no state to even start looking at it tonight, but I will."<br/><br/>She helped him back up out of the bath, and into the shower area, where a dozen jets of hot air bombarded them.