<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=21399.msg827807#msg827807">Quote from: kongming on 23-09-2008, 07:29:13</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"MAIDS! Attend to me, I want a bath!"</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Having stationed herself just up the corridor from the Mistress' quarters, awaiting any such demands, Akiko jumped as the door opened, and cringed as her childhood friend Setsuya bellowed.<br/><br/>Her feet moving swiftly, shuffling almost, so completely silent it was if she wasn't touching the ground itself, Akiko slid smartly to a stop before Setsuya, kneeling and bowing as was the custom in<em>Nippon</em>, "I am here, Ketsuban-sama."<br/><br/>She promptly stood, the little maid slipping under the Mistress' shoulder and into the quarters, where she quickly vanished into the bathroom, where water could be heard running now.<br/><br/>In the bathroom, little Akiko tested the water with fingertips, finding it to be a tad warmer than Setsuya-chan preferred, which was what she wanted. By the time it was ready, it will have cooled appropriately.<br/><br/>Slipping out from a small pocket hidden on the inside of her dress, Akiko withdrew a small stoppered bottle, unstopping it and tilting it delicately, a few drops of a lightly coloured liquid dripping out into the bathwater. The scent of lavender began to fill the bathroom as steam billowed about.<br/><br/>Spinning, Akiko checked to make sure that the towel warmer was on, and sighed.... it wasn't. Switching it on, she opened a cupboard and withdrew a large beachtowel, folding it once lengthwise, then draping it over the towel warmer. She wondered to herself whether she'd be bathing her friend alone, or if others would show up to assist her.<br/><br/>....<Anyone else?>