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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[morphitudinous]

Billy nods, placing a cool cloth over the welt while Jamie works. It's not much, but the sting lessens somewhat.

"They should be back soon if I'm estimating the time correctly," he notes, stretching and smiling gratefully when Jamie finishes. "I hope so. My water-saturated fingers don't look like they can take much more."

It's so much fun when they wrinkle, isn't it?

[bonnypiperlad]

"At least no one can complain we're not clean," Jamie comments wryly, finishing up on removing the last spot of the paint. Just one more go with the scrubber, and...

"There," he says then, sounding satisfied. "Ye are now officially paint free." Waterlogged or not, it's true - although he's not bothered by the idea of getting a bit prune-like, himself. It's not like he has to worry what he looks like when he goes back to the huts with the Doctor.

Billy might, though, so he adds, "I don't think Ronnae will mind ye being a wee bit wrinkled, though."

[morphitudinous]

Billy looks satisfied with the job. Well, he certainly feels adequately scrubbed.

"Right. As uncomfortable as this is, I do feel better about that."

And...he hasn't even thought of that night for a few minutes, if the blush and quick check of himself if any indication.

"I wasn't even thinking of that. It might just be a little strange. I'm not sure that orcs wrinkle the way that humans do."

[bonnypiperlad]

Jamie casts a puzzled look over at his friend, even as he goes to rinse out the remnants of the paint from the scrubber. "Orc? Is that what her people are called?"

The name doesn't mean anything to him, clearly, and he shrugs, unconcerned by his lack of knowledge. "I didn't think to ask her." He just assumed she was some sort of alien, and he's pretty used to them by this point.

"I'd not worry about it if I were ye, though. You'll probably unwrinkle by the time ye go back to the hut."