<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d5/Ayshia.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Who:</strong>Naliya &amp; Mira<br/><strong>Where: </strong> Sweat Lodge<br/><strong>When:</strong> Afternoon <hr/>Ayshia considered the words of her two friends. Naliya and Mira seemed to agree that the man who was a few years her senior – was it five or six? It didn’t matter – was indeed interested in her and worth giving a chance. She didn’t doubt the latter. Naliya was her closest friend, along with Mira, and as a child of the same hearth than Valko, she shared many common traits. Valko’s words from the bottom of his slippery sink hole  came back to mind. He said she was stunningly beautiful. She had put it on the account of an answer to her tease, but perhaps, like her, he had disguised a truth with a teasing tone so that if it was not welcomed the consequences were minimal?<br/><br/>She let her friends talk uninterrupted about feeling like sister for a while, as she started the usual ritual to clean her skin from the sheer layer of moisture that covered it. Ayshia was introspective for a moment, but her mind went back to Valko. What had she done to earn his attention? She was still somewhat shocked that she had. Ayshia knew she could trust his sister, that Naliya wouldn’t say what she said just in hopes to match her best friend with her brother. “Nali, is there something I can do to make Valko more comfortable?” She asked during a silence. “I’ll need to talk to him sooner or later and I don’t want to do the wrong thing and make it harder for him…”<br/></div>