The bath is so soothing and comforting the moment they dip into it, where they sigh in content from the feeling of having warm water enveloping them after days of quick washing from the riverbed. While Snow is happily soaking in the cold water, Lune feels like heaven with steam hitting her face while she sits by the rock at the side, and Lisa is scrubbing a few dirts from her arms and asks, "what are you going to do after meeting him?"
'Good question.' "I- I'm not sure," all kinds of thoughts start appearing in her mind. Is he eating well? Did he grow more in this span of time? Will he still be as warm as who he was the last time she saw him? Maybe he got more battle scars after focusing his attention as an alpha?
And the most important of all, will she be able to scold him for leaving or get soft hearted the moment she sees his face?
The door opens and Rin puts down spare clothes on a bench that is somehow placed in this place called bathroom, "the clothes are here. Someone at the door will guide you to our lord after you're dressed, so I will be going now."
"Where are you going Rin?"
"I will need to handle Ford for the time being considering we just dumped him back in the mountains."
They start laughing at the sight of Ford climbing down himself, and after thanking Rin for all the trouble, she leaves them alone and Lisa, who is finally done cleaning gets up. She sees a fluffy looking towel and starts drying herself, and after dressing herself with the clothes Rin brought over, she nods at her own appearance and starts walking off after saying, "I will be taking a quick look outside of this bathroom! Enjoy yourself!"
It seems Snow had done with her own, and follows Lisa out of the room, where the doors are shut and Lune who is finally alone starts drifting into her daydreaming land. After a few moments, she oddly hears a familiar voice that she missed hearing, and she turns a little in the bath to have her face facing the door, staring right at someone that looks strangely similar to Chilve.
Her brain starts working again when she realized it's real, she is in the bath very nakedly, with Chilve staring at her with opened mouth before he starts stuttering, "I reall-yy thought it-s Ford th-aat iss using this bath!"
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"GET OUT BEFORE I PICK OUT YOUR EYEBALLS AND FEED TO BIRDS!"
Turning away to run out from the bath, it seems that there's some puddle forming earlier right in front of him, and he slips from his carelessness, shouting that he is going to fall into the bath, and Lune moves away before a huge splash hits her face, and before she can reprimands him from being this careless, his head pops out from the water and he starts stripping off his wet clothes, "hold on, since I'm already in, let me have a quick one."
"WHAT?!"
"Come on Lune, don't you think you should cut me some slack considering this is my place you're using?"
"I'm not bathing with you right away!"
"Right away? Does that mean you will in the future?" He tries to wink but gets splashed by Lune in the face instead, and he groans, "not fair, at least let me close my eyes before dousing me with hot water."
"It's not even that hot."
"Are you trying to argue with me?"
Soon all pieces of his clothing are discarded at the drier side of the pool, and he starts scrubbing himself while trying to take a peek at her, where she turns away to avoid him to find her blushing cheeks from the close proximity, and he asks, "so, how's your adventures?"
"Good."
"Is Snow behaving?"
"I guess. Though she should cut down her foo-" she pauses and stops talking, not too eager to be too friendly with him this early on.
"Have you met other people in your travels?"
She doesn't answer and he thinks that she is playing hard to get and he smiles, "what is it? Too shy to talk to me while naked?"
"Shut up. Get out before I kick your arse."
He falls silent from her little 'threat' and he continues with his washing more seriously, eager to chat with her more now that she is here in his home properly later, in a clothed state. When he gets out from the bath, he catches a glimpse of Lune trying to steal a glance at him, but turns away while blushing, possibly embarrassed to see his naked body.
"Like what you see?"
"Another word and I'm cutting off your tongue."
He tosses his clothes to a basket, and leaves the bathroom while happily recalling how cute Lune was blushing while naked in the bath.
The blonde feels a little lightheaded after getting back her quiet moments, and she gets out and wears the clean clothes Rin brought for her earlier after wiping herself dry with a towel. Still blushing at how her reunion with Chilve after so long is through an accidental bath together, she groans and tries her best to compose herself. Slapping lightly on her cheeks, she tells herself not to worry too much and just go confidently, and exits the bathroom, where there's a young girl standing outside by the door and bows at her when she is out, "milady, I hope the bath is to your liking."
"How could you let Chilve in while I'm still inside?" The girl looks genuinely confused with her question, and her answer makes Lune wonder what Chilve has been telling the others.
"I thought milady would appreciate a bath together with her future mate."
If a young girl like her thinks it's fine for them to bathe together, she bets that they will even think it's normal for Chilve to claim her without going through proper human traditions in courting and dating.