<div class="floatright"><div align="center">Tub <em>(image to show size only)</em><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/8P2arCE.jpg)<br/><br/><em>Elven man</em><br/>(http://i.imgur.com/x2TNqHc.png)</div></div><br/>The trio chatted for a little while longer, Velma made a few more flirtatious remarks, but they seemed almost instinct more then serious propositions.  She left shortly after with a kiss on the cheek for 'Milky' and a friendly hug for Jax.  Then Jax who felt guilty about having Miyuki clean his apartment tried to insist that he could help clean.  But Miyuki forbade it, let him bathe and dress, then helped him put the splint on his leg before he took his crutch and made his way out the door.  He had one other errand to do at the nearby Defender's post, but then promised he'd be in the Seven hells for most of the day, trying to look pathetic for tips.   One thing Miyuki found interesting about their interactions was that he showed her very specifically where he kept a small safe hidden under the floorboards, beneath a rug, in his bedroom.  It was almost as if he wanted to show her that he wasn't hiding anything from her.  Though it was locked with a simple combination dial lock, and he did not give her that code.  In a way Miyuki thought that maybe it was a test of trust, if she robbed him, he would know that his judgement of her had been misplaced.  But by showing her exactly where the hidden safe was, he was telling her that he did trust her.  After he was gone Miyuki spent some time cleaning.  Jax was a bachelor and so his apartment was far from 'clean' but it was rather tidy.  There were no large piles of laundry, just a single basket of dirty laundry in the small bathroom.  The bed was unmade, there was dust along every high surface in the apartment, and of course there were dishes from that morning's meal.  But save that sort of thing, much of which could be understandable between his height and his injury, the apartment was fairly neat.  She also found his small collection of weapons in his bedroom closet, a few knives and a shortsword that seemed well balanced and sized just right for the halfling.  There was also an older set of leather armor that seemed like it hadn't been worn in a long time.  The armor made Miyuki think that the Laelith Defenders all wore very similar sets of armor, and that it must be the kind of thing that was a uniform, maybe even owned by the defender's guild and not by those who wore it.<br/><br/>After feeling satisfied at the cleanliness of the apartment, she did some exercises, feeling the heat of the day outside really beginning to creep into the home from outside.  But it did feel good to exercise her other muscles.  She'd done a lot of walking yesterday and today, and a fair amount of fucking, but that did leave her arms a bit unworked, so she focused on that over her legs for the most part.  Then afterwards it was off to the bathroom.  Before Jax had left he'd shown her how the tub worked.  There was a drain in the floor near the outer wall, which the floor slanted down towards, so she could bathe directly on the tile floor if she wished, but there was also a wooden tub just large enough for her to sit  in if she pulled her knees up slightly.  As well there was a pump that drew cold water from... well...somewhere, she wasn't sure, several small hand buckets, and the strange metallic rod that Jax had warned her to be careful touching.  A wooden handle on one end and an exposed metal bar jutting from the handle, the metal reacted with water.  When the rod was placed into a hand bucket full of water it would heat the water up in just a minute or two.  Miyuki experimented with this, finding she could fill the larger (though still rather small) tub with warm water in under fifteen minutes and have another bucket of warm for washing as well.  Thankfully in Laelith rarely did one want a truly 'hot' bath, so as long as the water wasn't cold, it was perfectly comfortable.  Tipping the bath water down the drain was the most challenging part of the bathing proccess, only because the floor had become wet and slippery, but Miyuki was able to manage it.<br/><br/>Dressing and heading out she was very careful to make sure she locked the door and then memorized the locations to the best of her ability before heading off on her day shortly after the third bell had tolled somewhere nearby out in the city.  With one last look at the buildings around Jax's apartment, the view from the front door, and the exact way that the front of the building itself looked, she headed off into Laelith.  The first chance she got, she asked a defender which was closer, Havulak's prospecting or Far Davandi's clothier.  Since he said that the prospecting shop was closer she decided that would be the better first stop.  The directions seemed to be clear, but as she headed further north, keeping the sea roughly to her right whenever she could glimpse the blue waters between buildings, she thought she was heading in the right direction.  But as the buildings around her seemed to be getting shabbier and the crowd around her seemed to be changing into a slightly more seedy element she wondered if she'd taken a wrong turn somewhere.<br/><br/>She looked around for a Laelith Defender to ask questions too, as she thought she should have found the shop by now, but didn't see one readily apparent.<br/><br/><strong>"Hello miss," </strong>a friendly voice called out.  She turned to find a well dressed elven man smiling at her,<strong> "You seem to be lost, may I be of assistance?"</strong>