<strong>Aeryn Sunlight<br/>With Eshalu in a Magna Sophia Chapterhouse<br/>Dropping her guard</strong><br/><br/>Aeryn was beginning to revise her opinon of the chapterhouse, the interior was in much better shape than the exterior.  The kiss of greeting shared with the door warden - light brushing of lips against lips, not the tongue wrestling slobberfest of prurient rumor.  "This is Eshalu, my guest.  We will share quarters if that is at all possible?"  It was, did the Field Scholar and her companion wish to be shown at once to their quarters? Aeryn expressed a desire to wander, see the place, wondered aloud if a bath would be possible?  It certainly would, given a very short while to prepare, and a light meal would be waiting when the bath was ready.  That got Aeryn's attention.  The Chapterhouse was not quite as spartan as first seemed.<br/><br/>Sunlight had begun relaxing the moment the outer door had been barred behind her, the tension draining from her eyes, the set of her shoulders.  When eshalu pulled them close....<br/><br/>"I do understand, Eshalu.  I'm sure Elves have their sins, but they will not be the same as Human sins."  And oh Goddess, standing so close to her, and they were safe, safer than they had been, certainly safer than those mad days and nights racing across field and forest not so long ago.<br/><br/>"I want to see your lands, I want it so badly.  I want to sit at the feet of your Druids, drink deep of whatever thoughts they deign to pour out to me."<br/><br/>People were watching, they always were, there were no secrets in a Chapterhouse, not really.  But this was not the ship, privacy could be found.  Would be found.