Midnight Bathing? {Jill}

[Akira]

Amon stretched tiredly as he made his way to the baths. His wher had wanted to go get cleaned up after their night of hard work. Why can’t this wait until tomorrow night? He was tired, and only wanted to go back to their room and pass out on their bed. Amonsk’s Amon dirty yes? Then no wait bath now. The brown wher looked at his rider with rumbled amusement. He flicked his tail at him, and snorted when he got socked on the head. The brown handler smirked down at his bonded, quite satisfied with himself.

Amon shook his head as his brown started to trot on ahead of them. They were very close to the baths now, and he knew the brown could smell the warm waters. Amonsk paused just long enough to let his handler catch up to him. They walked side by side for a while in silence, but that was starting to get annoying. So what are the plans for tomorrow? He looked down at his bonded while he spoke. Amonsk and Amonsk’s work more yes? The brown knew he didn’t have to ask if they would work, they worked all the time as it was.

[jillianna]

Alessandra sighed as she sank into the hot water of the bathing chamber at the wher hold. She of course was not a wher candidate, but a dragon candidate. Normally she would never even think of having her bath here, but... with so many of her classmates paired off to their own dragons... and herself without one, she didnt think she could handle watching them care for their new little ones, even just for a bath, so here she was. In the wherhold. Taking a bath.

She rubbed the sweet sand over her shoulders absently as she let her thoughts do what they'd been doing since the hatching. The dragonets had chosen. Not only had they not chosen her, but one of them actually climbed the stands to choose her brother. She'd been a nervous wreck yes, but He was terrified of dragons from the getgo... How on earth did he manage to impress with feelings like that?

She sighed again angry at herself. If she hadn't been chosen there must be something wrong with her. Kayath and J'dol must have been wrong. She didn't have what it took to be a dragon rider...she sunk low in the water, barely keeping her nose above and closed her eyes trying to keep her accusing mind quiet.

[Akira]

Amon sighed once again at his wher; there really were times when all he wanted to do was beat the male over the head with a frying pan. Either way, he knew he loved him, and knew that he could never harm the large brown. Of course we will work some more Amonsk, you know that. The black haired man patted the large brown’s head as they finally entered the baths. Amonsk crooned happily and sniffed around curiously as they entered the baths, there were a lot of smells here that he didn’t recognize, but he just wrote it off to the fact that there were always new candidates coming and going.

Amon undressed, and stepped lightly into the hot bath water. He walked out as far as he could, and sank beneath the water’s surface. He was quite glad to have the hot water moving against his tired muscles after such a long day of hard work. Amonsk backed up as far as he could, than ran as fast as he could and took a running leap into the water. No doubt causing numerous waves to spread throughout the bathing pool, and not to mention the splash that his large body would have caused when it hit the surface of the water.

[jillianna]

As she sat there mostly submerged, the only sound that reverbrated off the caverns walls was the soft bubbles as she breathed out under water. It was strangely soothing, however, like most things now, it wasnt to last. There was a croon, and snuffling sound, and her eyes snapped open. Uh...Oh... and it just HAD to be a man too! Shard it! A quick look All the Way across the pool showed where her clothes were folded neatly in a shadowed corner. There was no way for her to get to them without exposing herself... entirely. She blushed cursing herself for not thinking about the very real possibility this might happen.

a glance back up at the wher pair, a large brown... and a quickly disrobing if .... not badlooking handler. Her eyes followed the lines of his shoulders until she caught herself and blushed to the roots of her dark hair. Maybe she could stick to the shadow-Her loud sputtering yelp ended any possibility's of attempting to covertly exit the bathing chambers. The Wher had almost landed on her! And Franath what a tidalwave! as her head broke the surface she gasped and coughed trying to tread water while having what felt like a mild panick attack.

[Akira]

Amon hadn’t realized that there might be someone else, someone new, in the baths when he had entered them, but when he heard a loud, sputtering yelp. He quickly turned around to see that his wher had almost drowned a young woman. AMONSK WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?! He was mad at his bonded, but knew that it might not be entirely his fault. After all, he wasn’t the best at seeing what was underneath the water, let alone underneath him. He quickly swam over to the woman, but stayed far enough away from her that she wouldn’t feel too uncomfortable…hopefully. He knew he wasn’t exactly “presentable” at this moment, and would have to send his wher to get his clothes before something worse happened.

Amonsk squealed loudly when he heard the yelp. He knew that yelp didn’t come from another wher, so it must have come from a person. He quickly swam over to the person he had potentially harmed, and crooned softly. He was whimpering as he tried to help the woman keep herself from drowning. At least he was trying to help, and make the situation better. Though, he hadn’t thought about how the woman would react to such a large brown wher coming up to her, and gently trying to push himself underneath one of her arms, even if he was doing it with the best of intentions. He looked at the girl with very concerned eyes, and wished he had paid more attention to where he was jumping.

[jillianna]

Somewhere in her panick induced state, she registered the wher's aqueal and the handler's yell. If she hadn't been so focused on keeping her head above water she would have come to the where's defense. Whe certainly didn't think the large brown had done it on purpose...but needless to say she was abit preoccupied to say the least.

Her hand connected with warm hide and soon she found herself being lifted slightly as the large brown tried to help her. Her breaths, which had been short shallow gasps, turned to slow, slightly deeper if uneven ones as she clung to the wher, thankful for the contact that helped ground her . the large male was crooning and whimpering, like a child who had gotten into trouble and was terrified. She'd never particularly been all that interested in whers. The ones she'd seen we're all so... Rigid. It was almost like they had hearts of stone, but this one...

Slowly her breathing began to regulate its self again and eventually she trusted her body enough to relax her hold on the wher. This had certainly been an eventful bath.

[Akira]

Amonsk crooned when the girl started to cling to him for help, and when her breathing started to calm. Soon enough she had relaxed her hold on him, and he looked over to make sure that she was alright. Amonsk not mean harm girl Amonsk’s Amon, Amonsk is sorry. The brown wher’s deep, husky male voice entered the minds of both of the humans. He hadn’t meant to harm the girl, and now he felt terrible for the fact that he had not only harmed her, but had upset his handler as well. He worked so hard night in and night out to keep the man happy, that whenever he became upset, the large male usually got upset as well.

That meant that Amonsk was doubly upset seeing as he was the one to upset his handler. Amon sighed and gave his wher a small smile when he saw that the woman really was alright. I’m sorry about that miss, he was just really excited to get a bath and didn’t know you were in here. He turned and swam over to where the water was just shallow enough for him to reach the bottom and stand on his own two feet. He had no problem with showing his shoulders to the girl, but he made sure to keep the rest of him hidden. After all, he had a feeling that the girl was already uncomfortable enough seeing as she was almost drowned by his wher, and was also in the presence of an unclothed man.

[jillianna]

Alessandra couldn't help the twinge of guilt at the sad apologetic tone of the wher. She looked up and met the eyes of his handler. Amon was it? She took a breath steadying herself before patting amonsk consolingly.

" please don't be mad at him. I should have made myself known as soon as you two came in here. It was my own fault. I'm sure he didn't even see me so there's no way he could have done it on purpose. Forgive me... I panicked."

She did feel a bit more comfortable when he backed away a bit and silently thanked franath he only bared his shoulders. She didn't think she could quite handle that much of the male form just yet. She swam easily to the nearest side and clasped one arm acrosss the front of her chest preserving what modesty she could and used the other to keep herself anchored at the side.

[Akira]

Amon listened silently to what the woman had to say, and nodded. It is perfectly normal for a person to panic when a six foot wher lands almost on top of them and nearly drowns them. His deep voice was sweet and gentle as he spoke to the woman. He was doing his best to remain calm, but all he really wanted to do was make a break for his clothes but knew that if he tried there would be no hiding the parts of him that should remain hidden from woman as young as this one. After a moment’s thought, he realized that he didn’t even know the poor woman’s name. My name is Amon, and you might have heard that this is Amonsk. What is your name? He dipped his head politely to her, and mumbled under his breath when he had to fight with his hair to get it out of his face.

Amonsk crooned softly when the woman patted him. She wasn’t mad at him, which made him feel much better about what he had accidentally done to her. The large wher swam over to the edge, and climbed out of the water as the woman swam over to the side. He shook himself off, sending water droplets flying everywhere. He looked over to his handler, and then calmly walked over to where the man had laid his clothing. The large wher gently picked up the man’s clothes. He turned around just in time to see his handler fighting with his hair and sat down on his haunches to wait for him to finish fighting with his mop of hair before he would bring him his clothing. How long that would take was well beyond the wher, but he was determined to wait patiently and that’s exactly what he did.

[jillianna]

Oh. It's fine really. It's what I should have expected coming 'here' to take a bath.".

She smiled sheepishly as he introduced himself then busied himself with getting his hair out of his face. She was able to relax a bit more and was about to answer him when water rained lightly on her from amonsk's shake. Her laugh was like a warm tinkling wind chime.

She wiped the droplets from her face before she answered. Still amused that the young man was Still arguing with his hair. ". I'm Alessandra. Pleased to make both of your aquaintances even though it was by less conventional methods...". Her head tilted as she spoke watching the guy argue with his hair.

"uhm... You know if you just dip your head back when you come up again you won't have that problem..."