<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/7f/Ibuki_eyes.jpg)</div><strong>Name :</strong>Heini (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=231826.msg11399165#msg11399165)<br/><strong>Element :</strong>火 Fire<br/><strong>Location &amp; Time :</strong>The Tea House<br/><strong>Tagging :</strong>Wu Cai, the others, Fu Li Shin.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Caught in the act, Heini blushed and reluctantly removed her hands. "There, I ... I hope that feels better? It should have relieved some of the ... uh... tension.<br/><br/>Heini sighed. Things were seriously not going to plan today. But with her duty done and the healer on her way to help Lord Chiang, maybe the evening could be salvaged after all. She hung back frrom the party as they made their way towards the palace. Totally unaware of the Judge's desire to see her dangling hogtied from a pole if she did not return, the young thief slipped away.<br/><br/>Of course, the chances are that if she had known of Li Shin's desires, she might still have slipped away, and might even have made herself easier to catch...<br/><br/>She made her way to the river bank and watched in some amusement as one of the city guards was wading in the water still, desperately trying to find her cloak.<br/><br/>Out of sight, Heini quickly undressed. and slipped naked into the water. It was COLD! "I will become like as to a fish!"<br/><br/>She'd heard one of the students up at the college say that and dive into the swimming pool, only to emerge, coughing and spluttering a few yards away. Heini had no illusions that she would become a fish, but it couldn't hurt to try. She took a deep, hot breath that seemed to burn her lungs and vanished under the water. She swam seemingly effortlessly to where she remembered the log was, only to find her way blocked by a pair of booted feet that were stirring up the mud. Something in her head told her that she needed to take a breath, but her lungs were not burning, her sight was not blurring, except by the silt. She swam around the blundering oaf, found her cloak, and pulled it free, swam back the way she had come.<br/><br/>Something was strange. She had never been under water this long before. She found her way back to the bank where she thought she had left her clothes and surfaced. Air burned her mouth for a moment, making her want to go back under, then suddenly it was sweet, cool and fresh again, and the water around her was cold again. She pulled herself from the water as stealthily as she could, and looked to where she had left her clothing.