Heirot

"We're trying to get Rai to a bathroom so we can clean her up! I think she's stalling!" Siren called up, sticking her tongue out at Rai and starting up the stairs. "Seen one around anywhere?"

"I'm not stalling!" Rai said, not really knowing what the word ment, but she said she wasn't doing it anyway.

The little girl ran upstairs with out waiting on Tencho to say anything, after all children have low attention spand.

Mizuki blinked, then laughed at seeing how much of a mess Rai was. "I haven't seen a bathroom just yet" she said. "But I don't know if the tub could handle all that mess!" Mizuki giggled.

Tensho's arm had given a small spasm of pain that caused him to flinch slightly and grip it. He guessed his arm was at full just yet and decided to take it easy. He went over to the stairs and called up. After a bit of a delay, he called out "Would I get to watch Siren bathing if I went with you?" with a mischiveous grin on his face.

Rai looked back at him and blinked. "Why would you want to do that?" she asked and giggled totally oblivous to what he meant by it.

Siren turned and called back down the stairs obstinately, "I wouldn't think about that too hard, Tensho, wouldn't want your brain to explode from the visuals. Ahh, you might want to stay away from baked goods for a while." She grinned evily at Tensho, then continued up the stairs after Rai.

When she reached Rai and Mizuki a few leaps later, she stopped with them.

"I was wondering if we shouldn't douse her first to get rid of all that mud myself!"

Mizuki giggled. "If we can find a hose with enough power behinde it. Let's just find the bath for now.." Blade cooed at the idea of a bath making Mizuki smile more.

Siren went around with the others, opening doors to different rooms, mostly dust-filled still, untill they finally found one with a large metal tub that looked like it hadn't been used in a while. They cleaned it out first, forcing a few spiders from their homes, then filled it with warm water.

Since there was a drain already installed in the room's floor, they took buckets of warm water and doused Rai with it before letting her get in the tub, letting the dirty water drain out of the house.

A hour later they emerged again, with a clean Rai and a slightly damp Siren.

Rai giggled and ran around clean in her nice new dress. Her hair was still wet and stringy, but it framed her cute little face as she came running into the kitchen. "I'm hungry now!"

Mayn's small form materialized upon the roof of a building a few streets away from where Jhaptal was. She looked around at the border city of Hepian curiously, and also arrogantly. So these were the people of Ighten? She had never been to Hepian before, but she had of course found it on the first try, by following the magical signal Reya had given her to track. The signal that led to the communicator Jhaptal was carrying.

Mayn was quite young, no more than 13, with shock-white wavy hair that fell past her shoulders and pooled brown eyes. She wore a plain white dress cut above the knee with a mandarin collar and black Ongoreth-knotted buttons, low white boots and a pair of long white gloves. In her hands she held a circular, heavily ornamented mirror inscribed with runes, which she kept with her at all times. She was a pretty girl, but one could tell from just being near her that she was innately dangerous. A prodigy at magic, she had gained early acceptance into Reya's service due to her exceptional skills.

Mayn smirked as she thought about the mission she'd been assigned. Working under Jhaptal would be a pain, but she would find ways to have fun around it. Focusing, she followed the signal from his magical stone, elevating from the roof and floating overhead until she came to a roof next door to a house beside a river. She looked around for signs of life at the house. One person attracted her attention - a man who was outside, practicing battle with a pair of magically-wielded blades arching from his forearms. She watched him curiously, wondering if Jhaptal was really in that house. Moving down to the ground, she sat out of sight on the ground and watched the house for a sign of Jhaptal, sighing. This part of the mission was so boring.

While the women had been helping Rai bathe, Soran had slipped outside to do something he hadn't spent enough time on lately - training. He practiced a series of formal kata that his body remembered for some reason. Actually, they were elite-level forms taught specifically by the Arken military, but he knew nothing of this. The wound in his shoulder ached dully, but not enough to matter. When he heard voices inside, he stopped and walked back in to find a clean Rai running around. Subconsciously, he found himself searching the room for Mizuki.

Mizuki held Blade in a towel as they emerged. While they were washing Rai, she had managed to get some time in there for Blade too. Blade cooed, naked in her arms and wrapped in a towel, as Soran came up.

"Daadee!!" he cooed and reached out for him. Mizuki giggled and walked forward to Soran, but she kept a distance.

"He's still calling you that, huh?" she said, approaching him.

Tensho/Jhaptal was getting bored standing around the house as Mayn floated to the ground. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed something white outside of the window and made an excuse to step outside. He decided against saying anything to the rogue that was practicing, not wanting to disturb him, and walked out in the direction that he had seen the shape.

The first thing the ninja noticed was that it was a young girl. However, after a moment of probing his memory, he noted that she was someone who worked for Reya, as he did. Not making any gestures of noticing, he walked deeper into the forest, assuming that the girl would know to follow him. He stopped at a point where he could no longer see the house, and that sounds would not reach the place, and awaited the girl.

Siren walked right past the others, holding her hand up in greeting as she passed. "I'm going to go lie down in the sun while it's still out. I think I got more wet than Rai somehow." Having her wings wet made her somewhat uncomfortable, especially since they got heavy when wet.

She walked out, pausing to stretch her arms and wings on the porch, then walked over to the tree where she was just outside of the shade and lay down on her stomach in the grass, spreading her wings so that the sun would dry them.

Rai looked around, her brow furrowing a bit in confusion. She climbed into a chair. She had said she was hungry, but no one seemed to care, they all walked out of the room with out even bothering to fix her something to eat or reach up high enough to get her a plate or something... She was very confused indeed.

"Hmph..." she said folding her arms.

OOC: aw crap..

Without waiting for Soran to answer, she looked at Rai sitting down. "I'll get you something in a moment sweety." She gave Soran a smile and excused herself from his presence. She quickly walked to where where the food Soran had set was and served Rai a plate after setting Blade down on the couch.