<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/fJMLCbB.jpg)</div><br/>When Lise entered the locker room on the ground floor of the militia building, that which also housed her office on the third floor, none of the militia women who were getting off second shift seemed to pay much notice at first.  Though when she started stripping down it was Stazi, the cute blonde guardwoman from the other night who first noticed.<strong> "Oh,"</strong>she said simply as she was busy cleaning her armor with a polish stained rag.  No other comment, other than one eyebrow raised as Lise carefully undressed and wrapped a towel around her waist before heading to the showers to join the women who were coming off second shift.<br/><br/>At first no one in the showers noticed, then almost at once, every one did.  There was a moment hesitation until Lise stepped under a steaming shower and began to lather up.  Then the teasing started.  Lise said that she was trying to preserve her modesty,<span class="bbc_u">which only made the teasing stronger</span>(https://i.imgur.com/mWTUlfy.jpg).  But suddenly, Lise realized something, it wasn't hateful, it wasn't judgmental, it was actually full of mirth and comradeship.  It was playful banter and jibing as the women took turns throwing out jabs and taunts about the paladin's prudish ways.  One card even went so far as to grab her own towel and wrap it about her waist, showering as Lise was, and spouting a few misworded verses from Lihrit's holy text in a passing imitation of Lise's tone of voice.  Another, trying to outdo the first wrapped towels about her waist, bust, and then her head, causing the women to break into paradoxisms of laughter.  Then when that woman threw the towel from her head, gasping, saying she almost drowned herself under the wet cloth, the laughter got even stronger.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Lise couldn't help but join in the laughter</span>(https://i.imgur.com/Q23Hry5.jpg), they were making fun of her of course, but it wasn't spiteful, it was good natured ribbing.  More to the point her curse seemed to manage to behave itself.  Oh she plumped up a little, she could feel her futa cock growing a bit plump, but it stayed mostly soft and lay downwards beneath the towels, even as she soaped and rinsed it the best she could beneath the towel.  Drying off afterwards was actually harder than showering, and it was a real challenge to get the towel into all the nooks and crannies that were presented by the curse, as well as her normal womanly bits, without accidentally giving away anything.  Especially since some of the women came close to tell her to have a good night and it was nice to see her loosening up before they left to go home.  Likewise the third shift crew was filing in and preparing even as more of the second shift was filtering in to shower and go home.<br/><br/>Sgt. Kae made an appearance and spoke to a few people, giving a nod to Lise, which wasn't unusual, and if anything she seemed to be acting as if nothing was out of the ordinary.  Though as Lise finished strapping on her armor, a task that took a lot longer under public view than normal, Kae approached.<strong> "I'm hoping that you'll be the one to tell the troops in a few days that we'll be returning to mixed patrols at least, as we discussed earlier Lady de Durandier?"</strong><br/><br/>Then she moved off to start assigning the women to the various assignments.  Lise noticed this night that none of the female duos were assigned to the particular street that the Blooming Rose brothel was located on, and only one patrol of women in the redlight district.  That patrol being two of the third shift militia's least attractive and stronger women.  Lise could shadow the rough, aggressive, and openly lesbian female patrol, slipping off to cross a few streets to the Blooming Rose, or she could insist on being put with one of the male patrols tonight.  The only problem with that being that to do so would go against her current standing order of mono gendered patrol teams.  Lise didn't know for certain if Sgt. Kae had assigned the duty rosters as such, but it seemed unlikely.  There was no way that Sgt. Kae could have known that Lise was planning on heading to that section tonight.  It was more likely that after the brawl the other night, she simply wanted to keep the prettier women out of the red light district for a few days.<br/><br/>It did put Lise in a position where she had to make a choice though.  Going with Ann and Vetna, the tough lesbians, would mean she could keep to her monogendered policy, but would also mean that she'd have to slip away from them and cross several streets alone in the red light district, opening herself up to being seen wandering the red light district alone at night.  Or if she went with one of the male patrols, she could easily slip away right at the door of the Blooming Rose with orders to the male guards to continue on, but would also be seen as breaking her own current standing rule about mono gendered patrols.  Both plans had advantages and disadvantages and it essentially came down to if she was willing to work with Kae and start phasing back in mixed gendered patrols or not.