<strong>Aeryn Sunlight<br/>With Eshalu <br/>A bathing chamber, Magna Sophia chapterhouse, Point Respite.</strong><br/><br/>Settling into the water with a heartfelt sigh, offering a hand to help steady Eshalu if she so desired whele climbing in, smiling not a lazy smile at all.  Not missing the way the golden haired beauty checked her weapons.<br/><br/>And the scars, many scars.  More than most human veterans.<em> How old is she?  And wound poisoning, even if you keep the injury clean, it can happen  elves not so vulnerable to a wound turning foul?</em><br/><br/>That analytical part of her mind was bodychecked against a metaphysical wall and thrown into a mental closet by her extremely frustrated and aroused emotional side which screamed<em> A woman you trust with your life and want so badly your teeth are grinding is climbing into the tub, shut the fuck up!</em>while slamming and locking a virtual door.<br/><br/>Sunlight ducked her head to wet her hair, came up, sweeping it back as she scooped up a bar of soap and began sudsing up her hair.  "A scout."  She msused.  "Not exactly. This is the first truly new unknown land - to the Dominion, anyway - that I have gone to.  but I have traveled all over Human lands, the last few years.  Studying, observing, recording.  It is amazing how poorly  the books by many revered authorities actually match  up to what I have directly observed."  She was silent for a moment as she ducked her head again, and came up with much cleaner hair, bliss bliss.  Moving a little, to give the elElf more leg room in the tub, but not moving to break physical touch, not at all.<br/><br/>She smiled, the woman with her, the sheen of water on her skin just made her glow.<em> Such small breasts, almost not there at all, but those nipples, a woman's nipples.  I bet they swell against a tongue just like a human woman's will.</em><br/><br/>"Dangerous work.  Even though I was never alone, dangerous work.  My ribs?"  A flat hand smooothly sroked across the scar.  "I made the huge  mistake of getting between a mother bear and her wandering cub."  Aeryn rolled her eys.  "I had just enough warning to dodge aside, but the she-bear hit me solidly enough with a paw to rip open my hard leather cuirass, gash my skin, and crack two of my ribs."  Smiling slightly when she spoke, faint amusement at the foolishness of the younger woman she had been.<br/><br/>"My thigh?"  Her face grew blank, her voice went quiet, emotionless.  "Not my first fight, but the first fight in which I know I killed a man.  I'd been in fights before, I'd shot and hit men before.  But I didn't and don't know for certain that I killed them."<br/><br/>Her mood lifted quickly, it's hard to be down when your legs are lightly entwining with those of another woman.  Speaking of legs... she had been soaping up, cleaning while speaking.  Now she lifted one of Eshalu's feet out of the water, began soaping and scrubbing her foot, ankle, lower leg up to the knee - not forgetting to scrub very gently between the toes.