Djinn like licking people for HarmonyBenderFreak!
As it is, by now, no doubt very well known, Djinn are very affectionate creatures. Although, sometimes their affection can go just a bit too far. Public embarrassment, accidentally revealing secrets or feeling sin the hopes to make their masters' happy, or just generally being a nuisance are some of the more personal dangers of befriending a Djinni. Recently, they had discovered a form of affection that they enjoyed to give a lot as well, more so than any other.
Karis was the first to experience what they had learned, her Jupiter Djinn swirled about her head when she was feeling particularly frustrated with Tyrell and had gone to blow off steam in her room. She sat and giggled a little as they danced around her, slowly drawing closer and closer. This is when Karis discovered something she had not known about Djinn.
They had tongues.
It made sense in hindsight, since they could speak normally, but seemingly without mouths. She would have preferred to learn through sight alone though, as her learning came as one of her little sprites licked along her arm. She shuddred slightly at the touch. It wasn't… unpleasant as such. But it was definitely weird. Definitely very weird. Especially as it came with a distinct miniature, but admittedly comforting, shock.
She flinched away from the Djinni in question, only to receive the same tingle across wherever her skin was exposed. She flinched away, asking them to stop, trying not to just let them… lick her? Ugh, the thought disgusted her for a variety of reasons.
"Stop! Stop right now!" she demanded through giddy breaths.
"We want Mistress Karis to feel better!"
"Find another way!" she protested, running from them only to crash into the earlier source of her discomfort.
"TYRELL!" She yelled, hastily climbing back to her feet, hoping that her Djinn wouldn't catch her, only to see the Mars Adept's elementals doing the very same to him.
"S-sorry!" he responded loudly with a face as red as his hair, "M-my god-damned D-Djinn just started to li-ah! Stop it!"
With a quick summoning of Psynergy Karis called up a gust to repel the Djinn and give them time to escape. Surprised yelps and curses from further down the ship and above respectively suggested that the other Djinn were behaving exactly the same.
Together, Tyrell and Karis hurried away from the Djinn, leaving their comrades to their weird fate, and rushed into the nearest room, bolting the door behind them.
"Karis? Tyrell?" A voice asked as they panted with their faces pressed against the cool wood, trying to shake both the memories and the sensations of the Djinn tongues.
The two, panting and trying to calm themselves, turned to find Sveta sitting cross-legged on her bed as her Djinn gave her the exact same treatment their's had been inflicting upon them.
"Sveta!" Karis cried, "They're… they're…!"
"Excellent groomers aren't they?" Sveta smiled happily, licking the back of her hand and affectionately rubbing the head of the nearest Djinn, who responded with a happy cry.
"Groomers!?" The two Adepts replied, astonished, ignoring the shouts of discomfort and the calls from their Djinn on the other side of the door.
"Of course!" She replied with a wide smiled, "The lack of a proper bath on this ship is disgraceful, having little friends who enjoy cleaning and grooming you is a godsend! Why, I'd be positively filthy without them."
Karis raised a shaky finger at the beastgirl, "Are YOU responsible for their sudden behaviour?"
"How else are you to bathe?"
The two paused and looked at each other awkwardly, trying to ignore the matted hair and dirt caked into their skin. The ship had been sailing for some time without landing, and there was no suitable place to bathe. They had taken it in stride and ignored it until now… but when forced to face it they were nothing but embarrassed to their core.
"We… haven't." They responded with their gazes on the floor.
Sveta laughed a little, "And I'm the animal in the group."
After another minute or two of talk with the princess of Morgal and with her, thankfully calm, Djinn, the two decided to let the Djinn… lick them just once… just to see.
It was an experience they never wished to repeat. The sensations of 7 to 9 tiny tongues running over, and admittedly cleaning, the body was just too weird to ever do again. Especially as the sprites repeatedly told them how much they enjoyed 'bathing' them.
It was an experience they would take to their graves. And if any Djinn ever spoke publicly, those graves would be accompanied by very tiny ones around them.
I honestly have no idea what I was doing here. But seriously, a tiny creature wants to lick and clean you and tells you they enjoy doing it? No thanks. That's just far too weird.
Anyway… yeaaahh…