Caligo waved his hand and a curtain of moss surrounded the area, it was a private pool. A private pool of muddy, bubbly, mysterious liquid.
"Get in." I look up to him. Maybe there was a slightly disgusted look on my face. He chuckled a very quick chuckle. Maybe it was just a choke, but no it was a chuckle.
"Its very relaxing, like a.. What do you call it?"
"I'm imagining a hot spring, or spa is what you are looking for."
"Yes, spa. I should have taken you here first. It was an oversight on my part. This will make your disguise much more stable." He steps into the murky water a black robe appearing on him in place of the wooden ornate armor. My disguise was also turned into a robe but it hung off my hunched figure at weird angles. I'd rather just get in the rotted hot spring than wait around feeling looked at.
The liquid was warm and slippery. It almost felt like oil, but smelled much stronger the closer I got. My cuts from earlier tingled when they touched the liquid. I was happy to feel the familiar tingle of wounds in a cleaning solution. But this did not look like a cleaning solution, it was murky.
Something slithered between my legs and I almost screamed. Luckily I held it in to not make a fool of myself and draw unwanted attention. The thing slithered by again, I tried to grasp it with my claws but it escaped with a wiggle. That was pretty gross. The next time it wiggled by my feet I was able to grab it and sink my claws in. A creature cried and rose out of the water, looking like an octopus and a snake combined. It looked at me then swam away leaving a trail of black blood in its wake. Caligo looked at me with a blank stare. Did he care that I impaled one of his creatures with my claws or was it just another day of the cycle?
I searched for remorse in harming a living thing but that remorse crept away after I killed my mother, that remorse was drowned in the black tar. I needed to survive and my ghoul instincts were one of the only things keeping me alive.
After the creature left nothing else dared to bother me in the water.