Aria giggled and packed up like Kass, popping one more date into her mouth after giving each serving girl a kiss with quite bit of tongue, and a two-hip-caress using hand and tail.<br/><br/>She shivered pleasantly as they crossed the courtyard: the desert got markedly cooler at night, and the stars above were glittering bright. It wasn't any cooler than her ideal ambient temperature, but after the day in the desert, and the sleeping and rub-down with the body heat of others, it was a neat contrast. She was surprised at how un-self-conscious she felt, crossing the courtyard naked; a few years ago it would've been a far different matter. The influence of those who worshipped Sune or Sharess and knew how to express it, no doubt.<br/><br/>They found Rana awake and gazing out over the railing of her room's balcony; since she'd dozed all day after her ordeal perhaps it stood to reason that she wasn't sleeping through the neat. She seemed perfectly relaxed though; not like she couldn't sleep due to any aftershock of her capture, but simply just that she'd gotten as many consecutive hours of sleep as she needed.<br/><br/>She wore a necklace more ornate than the serving girls', a silver webwork over her breasts which subtly lifted them, and was studded with small red gems, the two largest placed over her nipples with rather obvious symbolism. She wore no cloth skirt or sandals, though. Her black hair still held a dozen of the gold or ivory beads popular in the region. Her skin seemed to've been oiled much like Kass's and Aria's and glistened by the starlight, which with the reflection off the sand of the open desert beyond the balcony seemed even brighter than in the courtyard.<br/><br/>Aria made a play of creeping stealthily through the bedchamber to the balcony after having rather quietly opened the door and slid her haversack under the high priestess's bed. She announced herself to Rana by lightly tugging the woman's hair back, simultaneously clasping one hip with her other hand, and lashing her tail up the other. When the priestess started, Aria whispered her own name, then licked the nape of Rana's neck before stepping back and away from her.<br/><br/>The priestess turned, placing palms on the railing, and pouting her breasts upward. "My rescuers," she cooed, "Whom I am here and most obligingly receive, as night falls and causes sky and desert like to glitter like diamonds."