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Claude von Riegan ([personal profile] leicesters) wrote2022-12-06 08:26 pm
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warmare: (ムズムズ)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayame... pauses. Hesitates. She thought she had figured out how best to smoothly go about this, but. ... It would not be shocking to be wrong. She has never spent the night in a home, beyond the one she had spent Blight-wrecked on Claude's living room floor. She has never had to account for anyone else that wasn't a stall neighbor in the stables.]

... I need to bathe.

[Well, "need" was a strong word, but she preferred to do her bathing at night... and she'd scouted out a public bath nearby on her way here...]

I did not think your bath would be... large enough.

[She needed something at least as large as the ones at World's Edge to be comfortable, and she'd just assumed...]

Is it... ?
warmare: (覗く)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
That is... what I was going to do.

[The all too easily summoned flush is back on her skin, constantly betraying her despite her best efforts. She almost opens her mouth to ask if that had not been clear before, if she had perhaps misunderstood, but no, that would complicate things, wouldn't it? She should just roll with it, like she did such things all the time-

Get the bed ready... Her skin grows more rosy as she prepares to temporarily escape, pausing in his entranceway with her tail swishing. Manners...]


Do you... need anything? While I am out?
warmare: (じゃっ)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
[... She was a fool's fool to think he might have said something practical!!!! Like... like shaving oil or... or soap! Hayame bristles with embarrassment in the entranceway, prancing in place and stumbling over something to say to make it clear to him how silly such lines were, but the only thing that comes out is a flustered,]

I am leaving!

[And the door is... Okay, she doesn't slam it, but. She shuts it... firmly!!!

Her walk to the bathhouse is more of a stomp, red-faced and scaring a few people in the streets to get out of her way, but in the bathhouse... she calms back down. The pools are big enough there that she doesn't need to worry about her size, the water is hot... and she has always taken a certain degree in comfort from being able to cleanse herself. It is relaxing. And even if she thinks... the rest of the night might not be so relaxing... that from now there is... sleeping...

Just about an hour later, she is back, rapping her knuckles on his door again. This time, though, there is a bit of dampness clinging to her skin, her not-quite-dry hair piled atop her head in buns, her tail tied up, and a bundle of towel and toiletries in her arms.]
warmare: (何っ)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
... Pleasant.

[She'd even hit a sweet spot in the evening before the rush, so she hadn't even had to deal with sharing the water with many others, which was a bonus...

But as she lets herself back in and balances with one hand on the wall, twisting about to repick her hooves, she... cannot help but look at the broom with a rising eyebrow.]


Is there a problem... ?
warmare: (渡す)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[... He definitely broke something. But far be it for her to call a man out in his own house about breaking his own dishes? If he didn't want her help... She does not offer.]

Very well.

[She finishes picking her hooves and gives them a last brushing to make sure they're as clean as the rest of her despite her trip back through the streets, only then heading back properly into his house and drifting to the living room... Where she finds his mattress. On the floor. Again. Not that she should be surprised, it... is probably the only way to not break his bed, but.

At least he's busy sweeping up and she can stand there hesitant by herself.

By the time he's done... she will have convinced herself to lay down on her belly on the mattress, curling up as tightly as she could and stretching to reach her tail. She'd brought oils and her comb for her nightly routine, so... she sets to it, beginning to slowly and carefully brush out as much as she could reach.]
warmare: (赤い)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 01:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her first instinct is to say "no". Because she is proud, she is doesn't like to accept help for much anything at all, and on top of that... It's her tail. Which is very close to other parts of her body that would probably become visible if he had said tail in his lap. But...

Nothing will change if she just refuses things. She had come here, hadn't she? And she had accepted his meal. And she did have a lot of hair... So after a long moment, a brow furrowed in internal debate...]


... You may help with my mane, if you are so inclined.

[She gives her tail a last few strokes, awkwardly turning the oiled-up comb over in her hands a few times before she offers it to him.]
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[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[... It is a considerate question. She has already decided to let him (and she'd said it out loud, so she couldn't let herself take it back), but it still takes her a moment to remember how to speak when he sits down next to her. Which was foolish, because of course he had to sit next to her to do it, but.

She'd learned very quickly in Horos and Kenos that the culture of most other places did not seem to involve respectable women only allowing their husbands to see them with their hair down. It still takes her a moment to decouple from the idea of how intimate such a thing was to her, to tell herself that here it is just hair-]


... of course.

[That she releases from the loose, post-bathing bun in a heavy fall of ebony strands. She had not been allowed to cut it since she left fillyhood behind, and unbound it reaches to her fetlocks, longer than some men were tall. Thanks to the bathhouse's aromatic shampoos, it smells slightly of lavender.]
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[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[When is she going to develop some sort of... some sort of defense against his tongue? The moment he says it she averts her head, shifting heavily on the mattress with a little hmmph so that he can get a full view of jet black mane and not her pink-cheeked face.]

I know. You do not need to say it.

[... Except she knew because potential buyers had called her beautiful, and unlike friends, family, or lovers... potential buyers had no reason to lie to property about their visual appeal. ... It sounds much nicer when Claude says it, even if it has more chance of being a lie or empty flattery.

... It feels nice, too. Having someone else brush her hair. Her fingers curl on the bony knees of her forelegs, shoulders rising slightly and an occasional shiver running down her back to the rhythm of his combing.]
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warmare: (女らしく)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[It feels as if he’s talking about someone else, even though she knows he’s referring to her. The idea of being that, of being called that by someone… is just still that unbelievable to her. Her? Hayame? The lady someone loved?

She doesn’t even know how to respond to it, unable to muster even denial or anything beyond a humming silence. If she just lets him say it, perhaps he will eventually tire of it… or she will just somehow magically discover the proper way to handle it. (Something about muscles that had wasted away-)]


If you are going to tend to it, you may as well see it through.

[It is a mumble, but it is audible, and to be helpful… she hunches slightly to minimize the difference in their heights, tail swishing slightly over the sheets. If she closed her eye (and the eyelids over the empty socket)…

Maybe it would be almost relaxing.]
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[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[… Ah. The eyepatch.

She tries to leave it at first, stubborn and reluctant to remove it in front of anyone, but… it is impractical. It would be shifted around by the movement of her hair anyway, if he tried to comb around it, so. Slowly, without comment, she reaches up to undo the connecting point where the straps crossed behind her skull, pulling it off and holding it tightly in one hand.

… It’s fine. He’s behind her.

He won’t see the unbeautiful part of her from there.]
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[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[There’s no stopping the initial flinch at the touch, on guard for any attempts to move around to her front or encourage her to turn her face, but when those don’t come… she relaxes back into it. Now there is nothing to snag the comb in but an occasional tangle, and… it does feel nice. When her master’s men had styled her hair for exhibition days they had brushed and combed it, but not gently. That had been harsh, utilitarian movements, combing in hot wax to make elaborate hairdos for prospective buyers to find pleasing, not for preparing before bed or taking care of her mane.

She almost forgets for a little while that she has only one eye and that she is in the house of a man who claimed to love her. Her eye drifts near close again, and this time…]


… if you want to.
warmare: (赤い)

[personal profile] warmare 2023-06-26 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[When he moves away from her mane, she distracts herself from the fact that he is brushing her tail with necessary things. She refastens her eyepatch. She gathers her now silkily brushed hair and ties it back up on top of her head for the night.

But then there is nothing else but being aware of what he is doing and where he is. One of her back legs twitches slightly every now and then, a hoof curls on the mattress. She… she isn’t that worried, because she isn’t in heat, so her sex isn’t as easily exposed, but. His hands are still close. Powerful muscles still ripple slightly beneath freshly washed dun coat, the color darkening to black velvet beneath her tail and high on the backs of her thighs.

But he is respectful, and she-]


Thank you.

[Whispers politely when he finishes, hoping her face isn’t as red as it feels.]

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