<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC</div><div class="spoiler_body">Hehe, yeah, I added her.  'nother friend said it fit me, and I thought so; I <em>do</em> love my dark-skinned, tough, kinky, sexy ladies... all she's missing is abs, but hey, she's still amazingly fitting, eh? ^_^</div></div><br/>No real verbal response, but that seemed to be a response in and of itself.  Smiling down at the lazy koi, she stood, and stepped forward into the spring (likely quite cool), and sighed as she sank in lower and lower.  until all that was out of the water was her head and a portion of her braids.  Taking a moment to rest, she then began to rub the ash from her skin, a shame to put such dirt into the water, but Sunleaf had said it would be alright... and so she would wash and bathe herself, using scentless soaps from her pack on her braids (which she undid temporarily to replace later) and body, washing the soils of the fires and her travels away... and leaving no scent to disrupt animals in the process.  Hell, she'd even take a rag and wipe down her boots, gloves, and the rest of her gear that she could, to get them nice and pretty once more.<br/><br/>That done... well, she looked down at the koi, and with a grin as she finished re-braiding her hair and returning Sunleaf's Paradise Flower to it, she would take a deep breath... and then dive down, down to the bottom of the spring, to go and pet the giant koi.  Just a friendly gesture of course, since she knew not if the koi was guardian or the sister of Sunleaf, but it was proper to treat it friendly and kind regardless.