Goldfish Shoals

Log Info

• Title: Goldfish Shoals
• Emitter: Sabina
• Characters: Sabina, Cryosanthia
• Place: A03: The TarRaCe - Bathhouse
• Time: Saturday, September 05, 2020, 9:35 PM
• Summary: Sabina is relaxing in the women's baths after a long day of running the TerRaCe, when Cryosanthia arrives to join her after a long day of returning things Lily has shoplifted. Both are exhausted, and happy to soak in the warm bath, whie the kobold girl splashes around in circles. They talk about things, the struggles of running the place and motherhood, as well as Ceinara and personal triumphs. Cryo shares her worries about the kobold's future, but reasserts how happy having her has made her. Lily returns and the conversation soon turns to teasing the girl as she nibbles on Sabina's toes. Good behaviour is to be rewarded, and as no blood was drawn, the women get out, dry off, and take the youngling for some milk and treats.

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A light, warm mist welcomes those entering the grand bathing chamber. Rising from pools warmed by unseen sources of heat, the moisture makes the air somewhat muggy but still comfortable to breathe. The room it fills has been divided into three portions - the dividing walls, like the bathing pools themselves, clad in pale marble that contrasts with the dark granite that bears the weight of it all.

Attendants politely direct people to changing areas and appropriate services, and ensure that no one winds up where they should not. The central pool is open to both sexes, with a strict requirement for bathing attire to be worn. Those located to either side are mirrors of each other, each restricted to one sex and discreetly guarded to preserve patrons' privacy.

Beyond the central pool a pair of massage tables offer another form of politely-supervised relaxation, with cabinets holding an impressive array of aromatic oils for the use of trained members of staff. More prosaically, signs announce the availability of a service to clean clothes while patrons wash themselves, so that they can return to the outer world fresh from head to toe.

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-=-=-=-=-=-=-  Appearing, in Order  -=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Sabina       5'4"     130 Lb     Human             Female    Tsuran woman of dark hair and green eyes
Cryosanthia  6'9"     291 Lb     Sith-Makar        Female    A dashingly tall, elegant white-scaled lizard woman.
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It's been a long couple of days. There's a learning curve that comes with any new job and Sabina's been forced to learn it quickly. That and technically it's not just one job but two. At least the baths are relatively low mainentance compared to the tavern outside.

She's in the female's side of the bath and soaking in the pool like she might go to sleep there. Legs trying to float and a towel tucked behind her head. Hair pulled up into a loose bun.

A white-scaled sith'makar woman enters the bathhouse, carrying a carnation-scaled kobold girl, a youngling, who looks around with eager eyes. The sith woman is smelling very lizardly, suggesting a lot of exertion or emotion throughout the day. The kobold girl smells somewhat strongly as well, perhaps copying her foster mother.

Cryosanthia, the whitescale, looks around, "Sabina? Are you here?" She prowls, avoiding the male baths, looking over the public one, finally going to the female's side. She spots the exhuasted proprietor and calls cheerfully, "Sabina! Peace and hello!"

"Peasssss nesssss." Lily echoes over Cryo's shoulder, also sounding eager, "Beansss!"

Cryo is quite overdressed for the bath, her full mithril armour, magic clothes, haversack. She heads to a changing area and looks for an attendant as she starts removing things. Lily is freed from her carrier first and set down.

Bina opens her eyes in a lazy fashion and lifts an arm languidly and waves to the two. "Hello, Cryosanthia. Hello Lilly. Peace be on your nests. Come join me in the water. It's a delicious tempature if I say so myself. Just hot enough to make we sweat. All the tensions of the day are leaving. Wonderful."

Lily does not need more of an invitation. Even without understanding the words, the tone is inviting. Like a little terror lizard she charges, small feet slapping on the tiles to belly-flop into pool. She bobs, floating well, and splashes in a dog-paddle towards Sabina.

"Lily, careful with your claws," Cryo cautions in draconic, watching the way she flails. <draconic>

The sith herself is stripping down, and while what she wears is light, it seems a burden is lifted with each piece she removes. It all comes off, down past her boots and gloves, and she hands the pile of her stuff to an attendant, "They're all magical, so cleaning should be easy. Thank you so much."

Now revealed in all her bright-white scales, the sith carefully slides into the pool with almost not ripple, then glides ominously towards Sabina. She bubbles, "The temperature is perfect."

Bina steraches out an arm to Lily, sitting up a tad bit more then uber lazy and catches hold of the koboldling and pulls her slowly in closer. "Yes please watch your claws. I'm a delicate flower, Lilly." She chuckles and then turns to watch Cryo stalk through the water like a hunter. A brow raises. "You look like you're about to gobble me up." another light laugh.

Lily is quite the water-baby, but easily caught and happily relaxes as she's pulled closer. She makes a bunch of squeaks and chirps, with might be something draconic or simple childish squeals.

Cryo continues to cruise close, gliding with her eyes above the water like some sort of crocodile. A really personable, and beautiful lizard. She pulls up and treads water, grinning like a dolphin. "Old Am'shere game, along with lurking on the bottom, named after a Myrrish explorer. Hunter calls his first name, prey his last. Eyes closed and promise not to use blindsense or nose, just ears. Try to catch someone."

Bina ahhhs softly as Cryo describes the game and it's meaning. "We have ponds and pools in the Vast. A few lakes. I never really learned to swim well. Hard to learn when most of the places you visit or bathe are shallow enough to touch bottom. Our childhood game was Hilltop chieftain. Someone gets atop a rock in a pool and tries to remain ther against any who would knock them off and take their spot." She pulls Lilly in for brief hug and playful kiss on the cheek before letting her go.

Lily bobs in the water then stars swimming around in a large circle. She is determined to go places, but those places are random. Occasionally she calls "Ssasaa!" to make sure Cryo is watching her.

Cryo is always watching her, as much as she faces Sabina, her head turns so she can track her foundling with one eye. The sith glides in beside the tarienite, looking at her towel. She touches her horns, "I think I'd need a couple because of these, but I like how you lie against the edge. Our other games were wrestling and trying to hold people under, the was a similar rock thing. Well, fighting over the hot rock, could the people be more reptile?"

"You look exhausted 'Bina, this one hopes everything isn't on you."

Sabina smiles and shrugs. "Not everything. I share some duties with Ygraine and Irshya. But Irshya is still learning people and land things aopposed to sea things. And I've been the one to get everything rolling. The suppliers know me and not so much the others. Soon I'll be able to handle it with more help from others." She reaches over to poke Cryo gently with a finger. "What of you? How is the duty of nest mother going?"

Cryo is solid when poked, her scales smooth and slippery when wet. She grins with all her sharp teeth on display, yet somehow making the smile soft. "A joy, Sabina. She has so much life, keeps me so busy this one does not think about things. It hurts, at times, my first foundling was a human, and older, yet things she does recalls him."

She laughs, "So tired, so much running. This one is teaching her the rules of things, do not bite, do not steal. She's... she's unaware of the dangers around her. It is both heartening and worrying. Fortunately, few question whether she's mine, and the people know to keep secrets."

Bina watches and smiles at her friend's joy. "I do not think that anyone that knows you questions your desire to put Lilly's needs first. Or of your abilty to care for her, Cryosanthia. If they do, they likely truely don't know you. I am glad you are finding it joyus even if ther are tinges of pain."

"I worry about her future," Cryo says, as Lily splashes about, dives, then surfaces and mimic's the slow, hunter-glide towards one of Sabina's feet. She opens her mouth to bite, but just before she can there's a push of water beneath the human's legs, and Cryo's tail curls up out of the water like a sea-serpent to fend her off.

Laughing, Little Fang is deflected. Cryo's eyes sparkle. "She takes well to Irshya, I hope she will teach her. Lily will always be small, it's hard for me to relate. I have asked Faran and her mother to help me with her. They would better understand the threats large people are."

The sith turns her head to look directly at Sabina, "You can't imagine how worried I was that I would step on her the first days. She moves so quickly, without regard."

"Young beings seem fragile but often are surprisingly resliant. If our young were not we'd noever survive to see older ages." Bina says with another laugh. Though I can understand if she darks inbetween your legs. You're tall, you know." Bina streches out in the water, tempting Lilly with wiggle toes and the nsinking back to her original spot. "No biting! Play." she says with giggles.

"Paaay Beansss!" Lily chirps back, focusing on the wiggling toes. 'No bite' perhaps is some tradespeak she recognizes, as she has her tiny claw-hands out. Her focus is intense, as if there's nothing in the world except those toes.

Cryo snorts, "She'll be a merchant yet." She relaxes and stretches out, floating in the water as Sabina does. It gets a little cooler as it washes over her, but not by much, and the perfume of it has washed her away her anxious scents.

"My height has been the norm for me, but I understand." She sighs, closing her eyes, "this is wonderful, your stage is wonderful. Thank you so much. You'll make me a Tarienite yet."

Bina laughs loudly as her toes are ransomed. "Ok, Lilly. How about..after we bathe you may have a treat to eat. AS long as your mother is ok with that. So ask your mom first, ok?" She giggles and speaks then to Cryo. "We have tastey leftovers of this and that. Sweets as well. But I leave that to you. And you are welcome. But I was influenced by Rada and your new god too."

"Ha! Ceinara, or Angoron? This one likes playing at the Angoron Temple but the Mountain is for Speaker-Caste. We must use our heads once in a while for more than battering rams." Cryosanthia grins, nodding, "The treats will be most welcome. You must make Maugrim Bites, I want to train her how to chomp the Tyrant as soon as possible."

"Maugam!" Lily calls out, hearing another word she recognizes.

"No Lily, we don't worship Maugrim. Maugrim bad." Cryo admonishes, then "Wiggle your toes so she forgets."

"Treassss!" The little pink kobold calls out, and the white sith laughs, "Okay, she knows that word too."

Bina chuckles and wiggles her toes again. "Nice pretend bites! No bleeding my toes, Lilly. Treats you will have if you can play nice." The Tarienite promises. "I speak more of Ceinara. Though I view this place as a triumph for myself."

"Very light bites Lily. Sabina is friend. No blood." Cryosanthia echoes the caution, slipping into draconic just to be sure. <draconic>

Lily nods, then she is nibbling on Sabina's toes like goldfish shoals. Tiny nudges and nips, occasional flick of a very eerie tongue, and very ticklish.

Cryo exhales and relaxes again, releasing her tight concern. She washes her tail back and forth in the water, keeping herself afloat and simply savouring the feel of the water flowing around it. "Her teachings are difficult, live life, survive and suffer, use that to fuel wonder and what you create. It is different from questions of good or evil, of which she seems not to care. Things are, and cannot be changed, but one can make much anew. This is a triumph, beyond doubt. She would be pleased."

Bina manages to fight off the ticklish part for a moment but she begins to snicker and then giggle. The giggles are quickly turned into laughter and she kicks her feet lightly. Careful not to hurt Lilly in the slightest but also trying to free her toes. "I'm being eaten! oh no! My toes! What ever shall I do! Help me, Cryosanthia! Your daughter is eating me alive!"

"Ceinara commands you call for help in the form of a song." Cryo laughs herself, unhooking her horns from holding her in place, sinking into the pool. She swooshes around under water, surfacing beside the little kobold, "Tribal Unity requires I assist the scaled!"

Still, she does not begin to nibble Sabina's toes. Instead she picks Lily up by her middle, so she's squirming in the air above the water. "You're flying Lily."

And she watches, for the laughing to die down, a mischievous line to her mouth.

Bina's laughter calms down back into the smaller giggling form. Her toes are free! She wiggles them and waves to the 'flying' lilly. "Spread your wings Lilly!" She says to the little one, spreading out her arms as if they were wings for Lilly to mimic. "Become a dragon! Rarr!"

"Rawrrrr!" Lily roars, flapping her arms, becoming a dragon. Cryo's heart soars and her mischievious grin spreads wider as she swoops the little kobold in towards Sabina.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Near misses and a lot of water droplets, then Cryo uses her foundling daughter like a tickling tool. She holds her close to the bottom of the feet, where she can nibble and lick again.

Sabina eeks! As the drongling swoops overhead and then eeks for real as her toes are attacked again. She laughs and gives Cryo a 'why you devious which!' look. "Oh ho! Betrayal! I shall remember this! I will! You may heve defeated me today but one day soon I'll have my revenge!" And laughing she sinks under the water dramaticly!

"Ooop, you've slain the evil island, you are victorious Lily! Rawrrrr!" Cryo cheers, playfully holding her mouth agape and nuzzling the kobold. Lily, for her part, shrieks and squirms, laughing and all limbs.

Cryo pulls her close, holding her to her chest, tucking her head protectively over her. On her front and her back, her glacial scales glow in a cool light. Lily clings, and returns the hug.

Cryosanthia holds onto the moment. The tranquility spreading through her like a sunrise.

Sabina emerges from the water slowly, careful not to interupt the mother-daughter moment and enjoying the sight of it herself. She resumes her spot along the edge of the pool and sighs softly. "Motherhood truely suits you." She says in a near whisper. "May it always be that way, Cryosanthia. Tarien bless you and grant you many happy moments."

Cryo sighs happily, uncoiling from the embrace. The shining lights across her scales fade, but she still has a glow. Her inner power has found a purpose, and her dancing for Angoron has somehow opened up her strengths. She smiles, sinking so Lily can swim again, and the little kobold circles her, splashing and making gleeful noises.

"Thank you Sabina, truly. This one has ached for it." A hidden truth, fueling her playful romanticism obsession, a way to be a hero of someone's world. The white sith sinks then glides over to the side, "I cannot replace her parents, her tribe, but she will get all I can give her, the best start."

Then she winks, "And hopefully she'll be willing to nest-sit when I finally lay."

Bina chuckles. "Lets hope. If I'm about I may offer to do so but I'll likely need to armor up if they're toothy and clawed like little Lilly here. But I'd still do it. Auntie Beans will look after your clutch for certian." She yawns, tired but happy. She puts a hand in front of her face and sighs as she's getting pruney. "I think scales would be lovely things every now and again to have instead of skin. Like in the bath." She shows Cryo her finger tips.

"The Egg-Watchers are our most dangerous fighters, all women, and well armoured." Cryosanthia says with a smile. She then stares at Sabina's finger tips, all swollen and wrinkly. Her eyes are wide, "This one did not know that happens! Do you absorb water all over? Will you swell up like a sponge?"

"Faran shared a memory with me, of wearing silk. The sensation of that on skin was amazing. Still, I am happy with my scales." She holds out a hand, no wrinkles, though it does look like she's got some water under them that will linger for a while. Also of note, her ring finger is empty now and there's an empty spot where a ring should be.

Bina shakes her head. "No. Just the fingers and toes normally. Being in water too long can be bad for us. But long baths aren't too bad." She looks at Cryo's hands and is slow to note the missing ring but does not bring it up for fear of bad memmories. "I think it's time to get out though. Get dressed and find Lilly her treat, hmm?" She stands up slowly with a groan and then a sigh.

"Mmmhmm!" Cryo says, rubbing at her hand where the ring used to be. A habit of hers it seems, "I think I'm going to get a ring of spell storing, with share memories. I had to give the Mindshied back, and to be honest I'm not sure it ever worked. I'll get a massage here then share that with you, so you'll know what scales feel like"

She moves towards the edge, when she pulls herself out a lot of water comes with her. It streams off her body, from under her scales. She's tall and white like a snowbank. "Lily, come."

"Nuh."

"Lily, come here. Treats."

"Treasss?" That gets the kobolds attention, and then the splashing flailing is heading the sith's way. She swims right up to her foster mother's arms, and is lifted free. She too brings a small shower, a much smaller shower.

"Towels, now. Oh Sabina, thank you again."

Bina takes one of the towels and holds it open for Cryo and Lilly before getting one for herself. She begins to dry and chuckles at the two. "You are most welcome Cryosanthia. I enjoy seeing smiles on the faces of others. Even if the smile bares teeth that are pointed rather then flat. Happiness is brief and to be cherished. I seek only to make more of it in the world." She wraps her towel around her head and slips on her magical sleeves. Soon enough her normal dress is in place.

Cryo dries Lily off first, which doesn't take much time. She sets her down and there is the sound of little lizard feet slapping tiles as she runs off. "Don't go far! Don't go to the Men's!" <draconic>

"Sssaasaaaa!" Lily gleefully replies, daring Cryo to chase her. <draconic>

Cryo, does not. It is fortunatley a large towel as there's a lot of scales for her to dry, and it takes a bit. After she casually goes to retrieve her things, and she slips her sleeves on as well. The rest can be stored in her haversack. The best bag ever. A moment of concentration and she's wearing something loose and flimsy. Light white slacks and a long white shirt, minimal decoration.

"Lily! Treats! Come back to Ssassa!" <draconic> She hisses loudly, calling through the bath, then repeats in Tradespeak, "Lily, Treats!"

"Yes. I promised Lilly treats for not eating my toes!" She moves over to the little one and scoops her up. "What would Lilly like? Would you like..meat? Or would you like fruit? Or do you want something sweet?" She asks the little squirmy one. "And some milk or juice to wash it down with, of course, hmm?"

"What's she saying? I heard Treats." <draconic> Lily hisses, squirming against Sabina in a friendly way, but staring at Cryosanthia.

"She wants to know if you want Meat, Fruit or Sweet." <draconic> The whitescale sith hisses her reply, then voices the three key words again, "Meat, fruit, or sweet."

"Sweat meats!" Lily cheers, a bundle of energy. <draconic>

Cryo just watches her, and noses upwards, looking at Sabina's face.

Lily twists her neck around, looking upwards as well, then peeps, "Sweet meats!"

"And milk or juice?" <draconic> Cryo asks, thoroughly confusing her. Lily blinks, Cryo grins at Sabina, "Let's try milk, it's a mammal treat the people don't normally run across. I expect she's never had it."

And they go for drinks and sweet meats.