<strong>Aeryn Sunlight<br/>With Eshalu <br/>A bathing chamber, Magna Sophia chapterhouse, Point Respite.</strong><br/><br/>Betterthan the scholar had feared.  No stone pool, but there was a large wooden tub, luxurious for one person, but two could fit if they didn't mind being a bit snug.  She dipped a hand in the water, not hot, but above body temperature.  Nice.  She glanced at the table.  A light meal, of watered wine, sliced furits, come cheese, small rolls of bead, some cold cuts of meat.   "Very nice, thank you."  Addressed to the anxious looking pair of novices in attendance.<br/><br/>Aeryn started stripping down quickly and without ceremony, noting with a hidden smile that the novices got visibly more tense.  Magna Sophia, even more than the female  religous orders, had a reputation for Sapphic revelry. The reputation was greatly exagerated over the reality of course.  But not without some foundation.  No woman ever became pregnant by laying with another woman, after all.<br/><br/>"You may go, we do not need you to bathe us."  Both left quickly, but one almost fled.<br/><br/>Almost shaking with surppressed laughter, the Scholar poured weakend wine into ceramic mugs.  "No no, Eshalu.'  Quickly assemblina a tray of food  to place on a stand near the tub.  "You are my guest.  Get that gear off, put what you wish to have cleaned on a shelf, what you wish to keep in a basket, we will take that to my room."  She pointed to another shelf.  "Robes and open sandals for after we bathe."<br/><br/>Trying not to betray how very hard it was to not just fling the platter against a wall and tackle the Elven woman as she disrobed. They had never seen each other fully nude before.  Aeryn was taller than many women, but not truly tall.  Slender, some muscle but not overmuch.  High firm breasts with dark tips, enought body fat to hide ribs and the points of her slightly broader than boyish hips, much the same even copper-brown hue to her skin all over her body.  A full bush, but neatly trimmed, no other body hair.<br/><br/>And scars.   A puncture wound on the front of her left thigh, halfway between knee and torso.  A hands' breadth wide scar on her lower right ribs, just above her belly.  To a ranger's eye, the scar on the ribs looked to be from an animal.  The wound on the thigh... a weapon, it oculd be nothing else.