Splish Splash, I was taking a bath (Bendy timed to just after the weddings)

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Not everybody wanted to go to the consummation huts straight off the bat. Which meant if they wanted to get cleaned up, they needed another spot to do so in.

Luckily, the city had just such a place: the great public baths. They were rather immense. And open, since the Moai didn't have much in the way of nudity taboos. There were private stalls around the edges, though, for those who weren't quite so open. Or just wanted to do a little 'private' bathing (wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more). It's traditional for the baths to take a while. After all, pretty much everybody here has just gotten married! Enjoy!

(Oh. And your clothes are going to disappear. Nothing personal, the Rapa Nui just want to make sure you have something clean and dry to change into when you've bathed. Isn't that nice?)

((Yep, there are public baths in the city. Have fun with it! And Jono's still outside the city. I just want to be able to get notifs after I ask for no notifications on the main post.))

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[chosenfamily]

"To be fair? Most of the time, when I meet a zombie, they're kind of homicidal maniacs. No matter what they'd been like in life." Sam watched Kang, then grinned. "Need some help there?"

[governorkang]

Kang shrugged, "I didn't deal with undead much on my world. Fortunately, I only ever ran into the ones that were annoyingly difficult to keep in pieces instead of the ones that could kill me with a word if they wanted." He counted himself very lucky he'd only ever seen Lord Soth from a distance. He'd heard the stories.

He cursed in Nerakese and held out the cloth with a scowl. The streak ran almost parallel with an old scar that was only an inch away from his spine. "...someone must have brushed past me when their paint was still wet."

[chosenfamily]

"That was sort of the thing that Hunters did back home. The things that most people can't deal with, we do." Sam shrugged, frowning. "Okay, yeah, that's annoying and I'm glad I never ran into any of those second, either." Shit, the stuff he ran into was bad enough.

Sam looked at the paint, pausing at the scar and then back again. "Maybe so. Or somebody thought it was a cute little game." He ran the cloth in the water, getting it wet before he went to work on the streak. And not mentioning the scar unless Kang did.

[governorkang]

"Which means anything that wasn't human, right?" Kang asked, quirking an eyebrow ridge. "I think Dean told me once that most people on your world weren't aware of the nasties out there."

Most of the time, he forgot the scar was even there. He knew it was a large one, though, from Fonrar's reaction when she'd first seen it, and he also knew that there was no way Sam could miss it. "Some bastard goblin got me with a sword a few years back."

[chosenfamily]

"Yeah, he was right. It's very, very rare to find anybody who believes in the boogie men that we go after." Sam worked over the scales slowly. "Ghosts, shapeshifters, rakshasas. Things that are only legends to most everybody in the world." Demons. Angels. The list went on.

His motions stuttered a moment as Kang spoke. "I have no idea how your internal organs are situated, but that probably wasn't a wound you came back from quickly."

[governorkang]

"Sounds like it gets tiring constantly telling people they really saw what they did." Kang rolled his eyes.

"We heal a bit more quickly than humans, and it missed the important parts. Still hurt like hell for a while, though," his wings rustled.

[chosenfamily]

"Half the time, you don't bother telling them. Especially if you can manage without people finding out about it." Sam shook his head. "Most people don't actually want to know about it. They...feel better without knowing. And maybe it's better than they don't realize."

He reached back, rubbing the small of his back and the scar there before going back to getting the paint off. "Useful. Though, yeah, something like that will hurt for a good while."

[governorkang]

Kang quirked an eyebrow ridge and looked back at Sam, "I don't know if that makes it easier or more complicated." He didn't understand how someone could willfully not want to know about a very real danger.

"Probably because of our relation to dragons." He said dryly, shifting a bit. "...the paint's being stubborn, isn't it? I think some of it got under the scales."

[chosenfamily]

"General public? Easier, usually. Law enforcement?" Kang could probably understand the sorts of issues the boys might run into, dealing with stuff that nobody wanted to believe in.

He grimaced. "Yeah, it's stubborn. Umm. How do you get under the scales? If that's not too personal."

[governorkang]

"Naturally. They think they've got things under control, and don't like it when they find out the truth," Kang snorted.

"I can move them some, but not much, and I can't see. You'll have to dig a little." It probably would have been easier to remove if he were actually in the water.

[chosenfamily]

Sam hmmed softly. "No, they generally don't. And cops are...generally the kind of people who prefer to believe what they can see. There's not a lot of place in a cop's mind for ghosts or a demon did it."

He quirked a grin. "Or," he suggested, "you could sit down in the water and let it soak for a bit. It's just fruit, so it should be pretty water soluble. And water can get in under your scales easier than the washcloth can."

[governorkang]

"You two probably got really good at lying, as long as you've been Hunters."

Kang put his hand in the water for a few moments and frowned, "...wouldn't be too comfortable for me to stay in for very long. It's hot."

[chosenfamily]

Sam snorted and nodded. "It's not really anything to brag about, I know, but we're probably two of the best liars you'll come across." It wasn't really bragging, either. Sam hated it, but it was a skill.

Sam looked at the water, then back to Kang. "Is there a warm pool here? That might do it. Either that or you'll have to wait until we get back to the ship for the sonic showers."