As each of you lowered yourselves into the water you found it came to your collar bones. It was uncomfortably hot for a moment, but as the heat seeped in and replaced the cold the pain was replaced with soothing warmth.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314115.msg15202586#msg15202586">Quote from: TwistedKitsune on 14-12-2019, 04:16:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"It is the atrocious weather outside and this bath feels most wonderful after having to brave it." Settlong herself down on the Lords righthand side. "I am Lily m'Lord and if you don't mind me asking why don't you know where you are the lord of?" Deep green eyes looking up to meet his.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=314115.msg15202811#msg15202811">Quote from: Blinkin on 14-12-2019, 12:17:10</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">"I am Lady Riskmonte, Wife to the late Baron Riskmonte." She took her time entering the pool, ensuring that she neither fell nor her gracefulmovements in the process. As she settled onto the bench to his left, Not a placement that she liked, but one adapted. <br/><br/>Safely settled, she turned her attention to theman between them and wondered silently if he might be the one that she saught. "Are your holdings in the region, My Lord, or are you, like I, a foriener to these lands?" She made sure to use the correct form of address rather than the commoner's less precise 'm'lord' The signat ring that was her husband's laid on a fine chain between her breasts; she never, ever, left it beyond her sight and reach as it was the symbol of her rights as a leader of her house.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>"A fair Elven maid! Lily I am enchanted by your beauty and assure you that the pleasure is all mine."<br/><br/>"Lady Riskamonte, my condolences. If there is anything I can do to assuage your grief, you only have to mention it."<br/><br/>"Please, call me Cam, for I am sure we are all to become great friends tonight." With practiced ease he placed his arms gently across the backs of each of the women, and slowly lowered his hand, his fingers tracing lines under the water, until they came to rest on the outer hip of each of the women.<br/><br/>"As to where I am a lord of? I am my father's third child. My eldest sister had the good graces to marry a<em>Strategos</em>in the Eastern Empire. That leaves most of my father's land to my elder brother. However father ensured I have a holding. I understand they grow pears there, and last year they started with plums. But that's all south of Gelinat, and at a young age father assured me that the Grand Duke's Azure Guard was a career for a noble like me, so he packed me up and shipped me off."<br/><br/>"Somewhere along the way I became lost, found myself in the University in Vleris, and took up the study of women's bottoms," he said as he gave both of you a playful squeeze, "and tops and all points in between. I never did find that army camp. And I haven't been home, so I haven't seen the valley I'll own one day."<br/><br/>"As to your question, Lady Riskmonte, I feel like I have been in and around Vleris for years. But were that true I am sure I would have worn out my welcome in all of the great halls and country houses. Yet I suppose I am a foreigner. We hail from Port Sasserine. My father, first Baron of Grenoille, was a merchant and exchequer. He made the Grand Duke an enormous mountain of coin, and for that he was given a new title, a new wife, and a crumbling old castle with a leaking roof."<br/><br/>At that moment Madame Falconer came through the door, the guard swung it shut behind her. She carries a tray with three flagons of mulled wine, leaves it nearby, and departs, the guard swinging open once more and closing it behind her.<br/>