A/N-Thanks to my reviewers! Actually, I had forgotten to post this chapter, and I was wondering why I didn't get any reviews, or why it wasn't showing up. But here it is!
Disclaimer-The characters? Not mine.
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They both nodded and opened the massive doors.
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Nothing could have prepared Kalasin for what she saw. Nothing at all.
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She felt numerous emotions at once. The first was surprise, than awe, than glee.
This room was bigger than the mess hall in Tortall.
It was massive. Her parents never had anything like this!
She began looking around, but it hurt to stare so much. The walls and floor, unlike the other rooms, were made of much more expensive stone, but she didn't know which kind. It looked almost like ruby, but it was much darker.
Instead of the one desk she had, now there were two. Wonder who that's for, she thought. The bed was the finest make, with silk sheets. Her eyes caught a body-length mirror. She walked over to it, and surprised herself.
The reflection didn't look like her. Sure, it had black hair and blue eyes, but this new girl looked more…refined. Kalasin actually figured she liked it.
A privy was to her right, and something splashing to her left.
She went to inspect to splashing sound. Once again, her jaw dropped.
It was a bath, but it was huge! It was about the same size as one of the public baths in Tortall. It even had a miniature waterfall!
Kalasin was eight again. She wanted, more than anything, to jump in. She quickly stripped off her breeches and dived in.
It was the perfect temperature. Her feet didn't even touch the bottom! At least they didn't when she was in the deeper end. But she had never felt that sensation before, other than in the ocean.
She noticed there were various bottles by the waterfall. Once she had found that the violently pink bottle contained shampoo, she poured it all over her head. She hadn't bathed since she first left Tortall!
The orange bottle had conditioner, the yellow body wash, the green various oils, although she hadn't figured out the use of some fabric strips and the red bottle. The red bottle was above a heating pad.
On the label it said: Wax. What did that mean? She thought. She picked up the bottle.
Well, only one -way to find out! She thought again.
She turned, and put her leg on one of the stairs above the water level. She poured the stuff all over her leg. It was hot! The stuff didn't drip off her leg. Strange. She put it under water. Nothing.
Maybe that's what the fabric is for! She thought. To help get it off of my leg!
She placed the fabric on some of the wax. It stuck, and hurt if she tried to move it.
Maybe she had to rip it off at one time.
So she did.
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"Mithros bless!" she shouted, loudly. That hurt. A lot!
A knock came from the door.
"Is everything alright, princess?" a guard asked.
No, she thought.
"Yes!" she said.
She returned to her problem, how to get the rest of the wax off. The only way was the fabric.
The spent the next couple of minutes flinching and biting her tongue. Finally, all of the wax was gone. She felt her leg, to see if it was bleeding or had cuts.
It was smooth! Maybe she should do that more often! It hurt, but was faster than any other way.
Now that her ordeal was done, she sat back against a rock and listened to the sounds of the waterfall. She hadn't felt this relaxed in a long time.
Maybe, just maybe, she thought, Carthak won't be that bad.