hot springs episode

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hot springs episode

let's delay our misery Yes, folks, it's time for that staple of staples: the hot springs meme! Your character is now joining someone else for a dip in the hot springs (or just passing by, if you're really dead sure they're not going to strap out of their spiky armor). Is this the Bokaisen in Kugane? The natural springs in icy northern Twinpools? Some hidden, bubbly corner of Gyr Abania, maybe? Or familiar Camp Bronze Lake? You've got a lot of options! It can also just, you know, be nowhere in particular. Why are they in the springs? Who knows! It's meme logic, my friends. A note: this meme is intended as a gen meme, though if you'd like to play it as a variant of the matchmaking smut springs meme that's frequently posted on Bakerstreet, you're very welcome to do so!

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[fearlessly]

[ even at the worst of times, alisaie loves water. she loves how it feels against her skin, she loves the weightless buoyancy, how it can feel like flying to cut through the waves as a bird cuts through clouds. but now -

now it is exquisite. the heat of the spring soaks deep into her sore bones and aching muscles, and alisaie is flung bonelessly against the slick stone, her head thrown back and her eyes shut, the faint starry light of night washing over her face. what a feeling. she has been here only a year in comparison with her fellow scions, but even a single year without the cool, quiet comfort of night had been.. trying. to be able to shut her eyes and not feel the everpresent sting of light through her closed eyelids is a joy and relief that she has not the poet's soul to put words to.

there is work still ahead of them. another lightwarden, and whatever meets them beyond that, but for now.. she chuckles, low and rough. ]

Aye.

[ she murmurs, without moving even an ilm. ]

Though I would not object to sleeping right here, as I am..

[ alisaie has the heart of a fish, she won't prune!! ]

[heart_of_the_wood]

As much as I wish to agree, 'twould be the fastest way to a cold.

[Still, she sounds so close to falling asleep, herself. The heat of the water does wonders for the aches that had settled into her bones with the Light. If she could she would sink into the water until it covered most of her face as well, though she knew that was a poor use of the Kojin's blessing.

Still, it was ever so tempting.]

Besides, I am not entirely certain what else would linger about the springs at night.

[She pauses then, squinting up at the sky through her bangs as one ear flicks, a thoughtful sound rising from the back of her throat.]

I wonder...a warm meal and soft beds. What sort of dinner should we have...? We have worked hard, a simple night of relaxation seems fitting reward I should think.

[The desire to simply curl up in a mound of the softest blankets and pillows after a decadent meal sounds like the best way to end a long day. It is the small things she treasures when life is uncertain, the little moments and small delights, like the way the night sky shimmers over Lakeland.]

[fearlessly]

[ alisaie does not protest, tbh she might be okay with catching a cold if it meant soaking here all night tbh.. it has been quite some time since last she felt so relaxed, her body so soothed, and she can hardly say when the opportunity will arise again in the future. they are building toward the end, the culmination, the final lightwarden.. who can say what the morrow will bring? ]

I suppose you offer a strong argument.. a soft bed does sound lovely.

[ mayhaps not quite so exquisite as the hot water and the earthy scent of slick stones and minerals, but nevertheless quite tempting. it may not have been quite so long since last they were at the crystarium, but the days since then have been long. ]

What sort of dinner?

[ paint her a picture, please ]