2nd Spring 515 AV
Note for JoiningI would love if others got involved in this thread! Just keep in mind that I am pretty deep in the tunnels, not somewhere someone would just be wandering for fun. I look forward to the clever reasons you come up with for being down here! <3
The steam baths were where Ayszel was sent most frequently for repairs. The presence of Salamanders, moss, intense heat and moisture all left the stone vulnerable to cracking and animal excavation. Furthermore, it was perhaps the most ineloquent of walled chambers and as such left very little for the novice Reimancer to damage. Furthermore, perhaps most of all, if any damage did occur there were plenty of springs to take their place, and thus didn’t risk hindering the nest in any long term manner. However, Ayszel had never been this deep before.
However, she had long ago passed the deepest tunnels she had been sent to work on. Her hands ran along the wretched crumbling black of the loamy stone surface of the narrowing tunnels. Here, the surfaces of the pools bubbled ecstatically. Closer to the core of the earth some of the springs were too hot to submerge oneself in but were a favored loitering spot for many insects, salamanders, and mosses that were the foundation of Ayszels philtering skills. She slinked through the tunnels in full snake form, surely scaring all the salamanders and insects long before she spotted any. The ingredients she wanted would be at the deepest depths of the tunnels, still far from where she was.
The water surface of the pools she passed glowed faintly, a white-blue that dazzled eyes that were used to darkness and made the snake slits shrink sharply. Her tail warmed gently as it ran over the hot stones as she slid deeper into the tunnels.
The cave she entered was vaguely oval with a high arching roof that echoed the gentle water noises. The water was particularly cloudy as the bubbles brought up the silt from the bottom. Far beneath the massage shop small scratches of red ran like leaking blood along the otherwise black walls. The pool was beautiful and would have been a favorite of couples if it hadn’t been for the teaming flora that stretched along the floor and walls. Ayszel however found the copious flora soothing.
Ayszel slowly eased herself over the lip of the pool, a shiver and sigh of contentment as the hot water pooled around her waist, her beautiful scales disappearing beneath the white foamy surface. A sleeve that ran down the entirety of her left arm stayed fastened around her shoulder and ribcage. She never took it off, couldn’t bear to take it off.
Her fingers scuttled over the surface as she let all thought go. As she allowed her body to sink into the water of Zinrah she slipped into herself and let her mind sink into the water of res within her. Glowing gold and sparkling with power she eased her hands into it languidly, not pulling it from its source. She couldn’t imagine her life without the golden glow within her, the golden glow that gave her power she had craved since she was a young child, since she had first craved meat.
Ayszel pressed her hands against the small bench beneath her fingers and wiggled her tail slowly watching her body slowly rise to the surface. Her plump breasts broke the surface of the water slightly and her tail moved in slow waves beneath the surface, her dark colourful scales shimmering brightly. She waited patiently in silence, eyes peaking over the edge of the water. Eventually the cautious critters would emerge and she would be waiting, in style.