Day 61 of Summer, AV 511 Golden Dragon Evening-Night |
OOCI hope you don't mind if I take just a very small control of your PC for this first part just to get the initial post up. If it's a problem it can easily be changed. Also, I'm mentioning some stuff that obviously hasn't been written yet, but I assume will in the prequel thread. Again, if this is a problem let me know. Ever wasn't the first human girl client of his since he began his work at Soothing Waters. She wasn't even the first that he met in the bathes and later gave a massage to. Soothing Waters was popular. People bathed together like it was nothing, because to them it usually was, and it was common to have the person to assisted you in bathing, whether you needed it or not was never questioned by the staff, to also be your Masseuse. And here they were now. Ever had disappeared somewhere in the Golden Dragon, leaving Eldon in the lounge area to patiently wait for her to return. To be honest, Eldon wasn't entirely certain of what was going on. In Endrykas, there was no such thing as a harlot. Whore were either unheard of, or known only through tales from passing travelers or the occasional Drykas that left and returned home. Eldon had been, either blessed or cursed, kept completely ignorant of what a prostitute was, what an entertainer was expected to do, or even more importantly, what Eldon was supposed to do in this place of such oddly dressed women. Eldon tried desperately to find a corner of the room, a wall, anything he could stare at to both avoid wandering over the nearly nude women here, all of them gorgeous as could be yet positively non-Drykas (there was a certain wildness about Drykas women that was never really forgotten) in style, dress, or personality. It made sense, why would a Drykas come here? Well, he was here, running away from something that scared him, and into something (Syliras) that made him thoroughly uncomfortable. There was a few facts Eldon managed to pick up from he and Ever's conversation back at Soothing Waters. One, she was a flirt, a seductress (which Eldon had no reason to see that as a negative thing), and she worked in this place of oddly fashioned women, and even a few men. Over the next several minutes, he would be approached by several ladies, checking if he was lost, lonely, or insane, yet each time he gave a simple answer of "I'm good." He clearly wasn't though, and only looked like a child being rescued from the hands of a stranger when Ever finally reappeared. This place made him uncomfortable not because of how risque it was, but because he feared offending people. His speech was too poor to make up for any cultural etiquette he might step all over, so the best he could do was looked like a statue, frozen in fear that so much as a bat of his eyelash would send the world into chaos. |
